Education:            University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

• Bachelor of Science in Biology: Evolution, Behavior and Ecology, 1997
• Bachelor of Arts in History, 1997
• Minor in Political Science

Employment:

1999-2000             Advanced Management Institute, San Francisco, CA

                            Program Manager

• Directed continuing education and think tank programs for leadership and management consulting firm.
• Successfully completed Practice Management training course.
• Maintained and operated FilemakerPro database of client records.

1996-1999            Independent Environmental Consultant, San Francisco, CA

                           Environmental Projects Specialist

• Formulated responses to RFP’s and RFQ’s on various projected public-private mixed-use developments. Organized, mediated, and coordinated support efforts for a development company in San Francisco.
• Under the direction of Dr. Alan Launer performed various field assessments of different populations throughout the Bay Area for the Department of the Interior and the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University.
• Designed, built, and maintained websites for projects using HTML, Pagemaker, and Photoshop.

1988-1999             RN Review for Nurses Inc., San Francisco, CA

• Managed seminar and lecture series for classes of 600+.
• Involved with all aspects of conference coordination, event planning, faculty management and hospitality, sales representative, branding/graphic design and educational marketing.
• In charge of all forms of marketing for seminars and product sales.
• Set up and maintained accounting software and computer systems.

1995                     Stanford University, Stanford, CA

                            Co-author and research assistant

• Wrote, in conjunction with Climatologists Dr. Stephen Schneider and Dr. Susan Alexander, a book chapter on Ecosystem Services involving the coevolution and interaction of climate and life. Analyzed and valuated the human costs of increased extreme events of the hydrologic cycle.

1994                     University of Hawaii, Puako Bay, HI

                             Marine Biology Field Research Assistant

• Assisted doctoral candidate Darby Irons under the direction of Dr. Ernest Reese, Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii.
• Logged over 100 hours of underwater research time.

• Collected daily data on: behavior, foraging, measurement of territories; and assisted in the data analysis process using Statview and Excel. Heavy use of biostatistics. Focus was on Chaetodon multicinctus.

• Extensive knowledge of biological research methods and interpretations of their results.