Certified to substitute teach all grades, specialties, and subjects within the Teachers on Call, and St. Paul public schools. Implemented classroom management strategies and lesson plans, with a diverse public and charter school population including special education, English Language Learners, and low income students.

Develop and recommend to the Board policies and procedures relating to matters concerned with U.S. government relations, liaison to public and membership information programs, and to encourage and stimulate membership involvement in public policy formulation and implementation to establish and maintain mechanisms for communicating with the public sector and with U.S. government organizations

Provide Outdoor School Instruction building on REI’s core values in outdoor stewardship for backpacking and wilderness travel with a high level of professional and public speaking skills. Classes average 20 participants.Complete detailed, written reports on new products that provide innovative design concepts for corporate production lines and customer satisfaction through in-store demonstrations and field testing.Coach new team members in developing sales and merchandising skills.Work to maintain visual standards and cleanliness.Regularly exceed weekly membership sales goals.Provide excellent customer service via phone and in person using REI product data bases, personal insight, and additional training outside of regular duties.

Research area of focus on Mars astronaut simulation studies and closed ecological system plant growth with Mars, and other planetary parent material. Research projects include multi-generational plant growth studies for soil formation on Mars, human psychology, microbial community diversity, and nutrition investigations in astronaut simulation environments and closed ecological systems (CES), neutral buoyancy testing with rebreather technology, and analog space suit development.

Provide high quality customer support with SCUBA equipment, classes, continued education, and local diving activities.Duties include in-depth technical product knowledge of life support systems, their versatility, performance characteristics, and particular applications in varied, high stress environments (caves, shipwrecks, deep dives, and underwater photography). Position requires regular high pressure gas filling and compressor operation.

Investigate plant-soil feedback (PSF) mechanisms and diversity productivity (DP) of a 3,000 plot, 16 species international research project in a distributed network of study sites (Texas, Minnesota, Germany, and the Netherlands)Duties include use of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and DNA extraction of soil microbial communities, leaf conductance and leaf area measurements, planting and weeding in multiple field sites over a 4 month periodResults are expanding on Dr. David Tilman's (University of Minnesota) 20-year research on plant-soil feedback mechanisms, diversity productivity, and plant coexistance by refining current, oversimplified greenhouse models on PSFs and DPBenefits include developing a more complete ecosystem-wide model to quantitatively test PSF effects that assist land development and natural resources managers to create more diverse, productive and resistant plant communities

Responsible for designing, building, testing and flying space ready hardware for two near space Pathfinder projectsIntegrating with teams to identify project development issues, provide resolution plans, and grant writing supportDeveloping numerical simulations, 3D models, and coding for small satellite platformsPerforming project engineering for two small satellite projects, including organizing and conducting design reviews and managing workforce Responsible for managing and conducting STEM outreach through a global network of space grant consortia, STEM clubs, universities, other nonprofits, and identifying national and international field test and research sites

Served as one of the 6 multi-disciplinary crew members for Mars Analogue Research program integrating with NASA, Boeing and International research scientists testing plant growth, operational constraints, hardware, human factors, and overall procedures in support of Human Exploration of Mars Conducted habitat experiments using Mars regolith simulant to test and understand the effects on growth of wetland/dryland plant species. Designed and tested new deployable planetary greenhouse CubeSat designs Tested a complimentary rover for manned missions, made real-time upgrades to improve performance, and tested other possible uses of the rover such as Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) Rescue protocols Lead crew safety group meetings and developed protocols to prevent medical emergencies during Extra vehicular activities and ATV use, research projects, and with habitat living conditionsPerformed simulated EVAs wearing analogue space suits for exploration experiments including EVA rescue operations, Geology and Biology. Accumulated total of 26 analogue EVA hours over 12 EVAsFeatured in Boeing Frontiers article and external website feature video regarding work conducted in support of Human Mars exploration

Promoted STEM initiatives and space policy in the United States through staff of the Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Served three positions in a variety of fields including the UND Observatory, Human Space Flight Laboratory, and the Space Life Sciences Laboratory with duties including:Investigated and conducted biogeochemical research on JSC Mars Regolith Simulant in Closed Ecological Systems (CES)Developed proficient instrument experience with reflectance spectroscopy (PANalytical Field Spec and TerraSpec Pro), soil fertility analysis, and plant systematicsSupported fabrication and construction of the Lunar Mars Analog Habitat sponsored by NASA at UNDServed on Mission control for a 10 day Lunar Analog study at UNDDeveloped EVA planning, astronaut nutrition and conducted safety analysis for the 10 day analog missionAssisted in microbial contamination studies in conjunction with NASA – JPL Planetary Protection Group for the Lunar/Mars Analog Habitat 10 day science mission

Conducted biogeochemical rhizosphere studies with JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant and microbial community respiration inoculated with various substrates. Certified in NASA Laboratory Safety Training and proficient experience with Gas Chromatography (GC). Job shadowed Center Director Pete Worden

Conducted published, independent research from two Ti nanoparticle wetland experiments in biogeochemistryAssisted graduate students with remote fieldwork in the North Dakota and Montana Prairie Pothole Region, plant and soil sample collection, and sample processingAssisted construction of a wetland research plot in North Dakota to investigate agricultural run-off and innovative water treatment methodsCertified in NDSU Laboratory Safety Training, statistical software, and multiple analytic instruments including ICP-OES with extensive greenhouse experience

Received two fellowships with the Graduate-Student-University-School Science program sponsored by the National Science Foundation with a combined 600 total teaching hours between two academic yearsDuties included standards based lesson plans with independently developed innovative STEM based teaching methods and student projectsAttended monthly meetings with supervisors, teachers, and other fellowship recipients to discuss student progress, lesson plan development, brainstorming sessions, and overall group progressStudent teaching was carried out in conjunction with science and math educators at Discovery Middle School and North Fargo High School, ND, USA