January 1 2006 – Present: Natural Resource Management & Staff chair, OSU Lincoln County Extension Center, Newport Oregon.
July 2001 – 2005: Agronomy Specialist with the University of Missouri Extension where I served 8 counties in the west central region of Missouri.
May 2000 – June 2001: Post Doctoral Research Fellow with the Crop Diagnostic Training Center, Agronomy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
1996 – April 2000: Ph.D. Graduate student, research assistant, and volunteer.
1994 –1996: Agricultural Officer at the National Agroforestry Research Project (NARP), a branch of the International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), East Africa.
1993 – 1994: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kenyatta University.
1992: Farm Manager at PACE primary boarding school, Kenya.
July – Dec 1991: Self-employed – Vegetable and Fruit Production, Kisii, Kenya.