Independent Consultant, January 2012-present.

November 2005 – December 2011 (6 years 1 month) Walnut Creek, CA

Prepare biological sections of Environmental Impact Reports under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Environmental permitting for federal and state regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, California Department of Fish & Game and Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Conduct special-status plant and wildlife surveys, special-status plant and wildlife mitigation and monitoring, wetland delineations, wetland mitigation and monitoring, preserve establishment and management.

Independent Biologist, Self-Employed, April 2001 – October 2006 (5 years 7 months)
Conducted special-status plant surveys, special-status plant mitigation and monitoring, wetland delineations, and wetland mitigation monitoring. Clients included Live Oak Associates, Wood Biological Consulting, and Natural Resources Management.

Biologist, Mosaic Associates, June 2005 – November 2005 (6 months) Pinole, CA
Conducted special-status plant surveys, special-status plant mitigation and monitoring, and wetland mitigation monitoring.

Botanist/Ecologist, Sycamore Associates, LLC, March 1999 – September 2001 (2 years 7 months) Walnut Creek, CA
Managed rare plant mitigation & monitoring programs in which thousands of federally-listed endangered plants were transplanted from planned residential areas to natural and created habitats on-site.
Performed focused botanical surveys for special-status plants and natural communities
Monitored construction sites to prevent the take of special-status species and filling of wetlands.
Wrote biological assessments, wetland delineations and plant mitigation & monitoring reports.

San Francisco State University
M.A., Conservation Biology, 1993 – 1998

Tufts University
B.S., Biology, 1979 – 1981

California Botanical Society, California Native Plant Society, IEEM Full Membership