My professional experience includes more than 24 years in outreach and education, focusing on the following:
- Program development and management.
- Project direction and strategic planning
- Process improvement
I lead an educational services team of professionals at Michigan Sea Grant focusing on developing Great Lakes educational materials. The team has received a number of national awards.

CV: (PDF) of current resume.
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY: The intersection of visual communication and education.
OUTCOMES: List of educational media and design papers, projects and output.
PUBLICATIONS: List of print and web projects and presentations.
SITE DEVELOPMENT: Brief overview of web site design.
SYSTEMIC CHANGE: Summary of change in education.

Using a Macintosh Plus computer, with a nine-inch monitor, and an 8 MHz CPU all in one box, I was on the information highway in the production a variety of research and education publications in 1988. As part of a creative group (editors, designers, illustrators, photographers and videographers) that used the Mac, we quickly became dependent upon electronic media as a primary tool used in medical education and outreach about medical research.  Since that time, I have been involved in using technology for education and communication. I am still a dedicated Macintosh user. 

Experiencing the transition of communications technology in the development of publications, in bridging geographic boundaries and in transforming the way we think about information nearly 30 years is amazing. From the moment I stepped foot on a college campus I was interested in the science, technology and tools available for visual communication, such as photography.

Photography has become even more important today than it had been in 1976, when I purchased a single lens reflex camera. Soon after this, I was making halftones from photographic prints and sending typesetters word processing files that they in-turn, coded and electronically “set” font families, styles, column widths, leading and other attributes related to typography, layout and design of publications. I have been shooting photos with a digital camera for more than 6 years and have contributed to a growing image library with a wonderful collection of plants, coastal scenes and other material about the Great Lakes.

Educational media and technology is the focus of many current initiatives and includes incorporating new technologies to reinforce and enhance learning; instructional design for web-based curriculum and distilling information about scientific research tools.