Rescue and retrieve birds from areas occupied by power companies or companies that may have a wildlife/human conflict.Research and write proposals for grants.Translocate Western Burrowing Owls with tasks including: Identify occupied burrows for burrowing owls. Install artificial burrows for burrowing owls. Excavate burrowsTranslocate Gunnison's Prairie Dogs

Became a Maryland Certified Professional Horticulturist in October 2005.Assisted in the creation of several databases that were used to input data collected during multiple surveys.Set up traps for multiple insect surveys including fire ants, pine shoot beetles, emerald ash borers, and crop pests such as corn ear worms.Supervised and trained contractual workers hired to help with summer surveys.Worked as a nursery inspector for several counties in Maryland. This included identifying pests and diseases of plants and the controls used to treat them.