-Develop customer relationships for deployment of FlightSensors -Develop and coordinate commercialization activities-Support and/or lead field R&D projects as designated

• Extensive outreach and coordination with USDA and agricultural stakeholders to address key pest in California, Oregon and Washington.• Mass rearing and life-cycle methods development for deployment of mass sterile insect release of sterile spotted wing drosophila (SWD) flies.• Research on optimization of CRISPR Cas9/gRNA transgenic fly foundation lines.• Novel detection methods and attractants for SWD in greenhouse and field in CA, WA, OR.• Leadership Team and Laboratory, Field and Production Staff Supervisor.

• County Entomologist & Supervisor of San Diego County Honey Bee Protection Program.• Supervised and conducted on-site immediate insect screening to ensure agricultural commodities met state, national and international shipping quarantine requirements.• Annually escalated 100 invasive insects and gastropods submitted to the Entomology Lab by inspectors and the public to the attention of USDA and CDFA parent agencies and participated in remediation protocols before release from quarantine and/or established in the environment.• First-tier identifier of CDFA Emergency Project targets such as LBAM, Asian citrus psyllid, exotic fruit flies, gypsy moth, and Japanese beetle.• Leading player in three-year beekeeper and citizen consensus-building plan including CEQA to define County’s Honey Bee Protection Program and zoning regulations; numerous presentations to unincorporated San Diego Community Planning Groups and Board of Supervisors.• Main author on Ordinances Relating to Beekeeping and Apiaries Chapter 9, Division 2 of Title 6 of the San Diego County Code of Regulatory instated Nov. 14, 2015.• Increased services to provide 100% diagnosis of 15,000 diagnostic samples & 1,200 informational telephone calls for internal and external stakeholders of the Entomology Lab annually, including 48-hour turnaround on results for high-risk incoming horticultural samples.• Expedited processing for 100% of 2,500 plant shipments annually in the grape Pierce’s Disease Protection Program to prevent northern transport of glassy-winged sharpshooter.• Provided external 30+ regulatory updates and outreach events annually to the public, children, agency cooperators, and stakeholders.• For the County of San Diego, provided internal consultative educational resource on insect issues to Agricultural Commissioner, Deputies, Insect Pest Detection Staff, Agricultural Inspectors, Apiary Inspectors, other departments and the County Communications Center.

• Inspections of quarantined agricultural and horticultural products to protect state and national agriculture from introduced organisms.

• Introduced invasive Diaprepes root weevil seasonal biology in coastal lemon for the development of biological, cultural and chemical controls.

• Methods for home-gardener and plant nurseries to reduce water loss from cottontail rabbit.• Behavior of CA ground squirrels using underground, hidden-from-public view bait stations. • Toxicological dose-response assays on anticoagulant-resistant voles in artichokes.

• One-on-one planning with growers and public to implement quarantine compliance measures.

• Project leader and bench entomologist in cross-functional teams to assess prospective technologies for insect control in Diptera, Homoptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera.Six Sigma process improvement focusing on “Insect Prioritization and Purchasing Processes” as Green Belt and “Optimization of Insect Bioassay Process to Reduce Screen Variability and Overhead Capital Expenditures” as Subject Matter Expert.Awards: Discovery Recognition Award: “Project Management.” Dow AgroSciences LLP. 2001. Discovery Recognition Award: “Excellence in Team Risk-Taking.” Dow AgroSciences LLP. 2000. “Innovative Scientific Contributor.” Inventors’ Day in Recognition of Innovative Scientific Contributions, Dow AgroSciences LLP. 2000, 1999, 1998.

• Insect bioassay protocols enabling discovery of active biomolecules against corn rootworm, alfalfa weevil and European corn borer.• Discovery team and technology transfer to investor Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. that launched Dow AgroSciences Herculex™ widely used in transgenic corn against major economic pest corn rootworm.

• Standardized insect production to meet EPA good manufacturing practice GMP requirements.• Insecticide discovery against numerous invertebrate pests to build intellectual property.• Coordinated contract research with government and academic collaborators.• Technology transfer bioassay and insect rearing to investor Kubota LTD, Osaka, Japan.collaboration.

• Insect rearing and bioassay to evaluate novel biological pest-control technologies.

Evaluated cover crops for attractiveness to beneficial insects.

Senior thesis on the oviposition efficiency of parasitic wasp on Colorado potato beetle eggs.