As an Aquaculture Specialist with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, my extension activities support the warmwater aquaculture industry in eastern North Carolina.

CAREER HISTORY

• Thirty-three years working experience in aquaculture of freshwater and marine fish and shrimp.
• Nine years of international experience, consisting of five years of research and management in the private sector and four years with warmwater fish culture extension projects.

EDUCATION

• B.A. 1980 Psychology, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
• M.S. 1986 Water Quality, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
• Ph.D. 1989 Water Quality, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Professor, 2005 - present, Department of Biology (formerly Zoology) North Carolina State University

• Associate Professor, 2001 - present, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University

• Assistant Professor, 1994 - 2001, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University
• Shrimp Hatchery Manager, 1993 - 1994, Continental Grain Co., Ecuador, South America
• Director of Research and Development-Aquaculture, 1989 - 1993, Continental Grain Co., Ecuador, South America
• Professor of Aquaculture, 1990 - 1993, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America
• Graduate Research Assistant, 1984 - 1989, Auburn University, Alabama
• U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, 1980 - 1984, West Africa (Gabon and Togo)

Fluent in English, French and Spanish.