***** Consulting. President. 2000-present.
Offer wide range of ***** consulting services, mainly in the area of recirculating / limited water-exchange systems. ***** management strategies, human resources, production management.

Production Manager. Aquacorporacion de Honduras Rio Lindo, Honduras
Jan. 2008 to Oct. 2009
• Managed fully integrated super-intensive tilapia ***** facility (reproduction to market).
• Managed production staff of 200+ employees.
• Successful production of 10,000 kg per day.

General Manager. Dyer Aqua PR, LLC Salinas, Puerto Rico
Jan. 2006 to Dec. 2007
• Managed all saltwater ornamental production systems including broodstock, hatchery, growout (clownfish, blennies, gobies, and dottybacks), shipping, pathology and live food production (artemia and rotifers).
• Managed all administrative on site functions.
• Designed and installed all new recirculating technologies and site upgrades.
• Managed production staff of 25 employees.

Vice General Manager: Head of Research and Development. Hainan Houston ***** Co. Ltd Hainan, China
Feb. 2002 to Dec. 2005
• Designed, initiated, and managed closed recirculating (zero water exchange) maturation (for up to 6000 broodstock pairs), super intensive limited exchange nursery raceway systems, and super intensive growout systems.
• Designed and managed all storage, pathology, and maintenance facilities.
• Managed: maturation and reproduction, hatchery (PL) production (100 million post-larvae/month), nursery raceway production (super intensive limited water exchange systems), growout raceway production (super intensive limited water exchange systems), and growout pond production (average 13 tons per hectare production, maximum 18.7 tons per hectare production) of SPF L. vannamei.
• Consulted for all areas of production within group (extensive and intensive pond culture, hatchery, nursery, transportation, etc).
• Managed production staff of 350 employees.

Special Projects and Nursery Manager. Empagran S.A. Salinas/Guayaquil, Ecuador
Jan. 2000-Dec. 2002
• Managed production of L. vannamei in extensive and intensive pond production systems.
• Designed, constructed, initiated and managed closed recirculating (zero water exchange) nursery raceway systems to supply 3000 hectares (7410 acres) of growout ponds.
• Consulted for all closed recirculation systems utilized within group (shrimp maturation and nursery, cichlids-tilapia).
• Consulted for all areas of production within group (extensive and intensive pond culture, hatchery, transportation, etc).

• M.S. Mariculture. Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. *****.
• B.A. Aquatic Biology. University of California at Santa Barbara. *****.

• *****, T., Martin W. 2008. “Start Up of a Large-scale, Commercial Recirculating Inland Marine Shrimp Production System”. Presentation at the Seventh International Conference on Recirculating *****, July *****th, 2008. The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. Invited Speaker.

• *****, T. 2002. “Uses of high-density raceway systems with limited discharge for marine shrimp production”. Presentation at the 1st Wanning ***** Conference, July 30th, 2002. Wanning, Hainan Province, China. Invited Speaker.

• Samocha, T. M., *****, T. and Estrada, E. 2000. “High-density nursery of Litopenaeus vannamei in raceway system with limited water discharge in white spot infected area”. Paper presented at the 4th Latin American ***** Congress & Exhibition, October *****, 2000, ATLAPA Convention Center Panama City, Panama. Invited Speaker.

• Samocha, T. M., *****, T., Cordova, J. and De Wind, A.. 2000. “Raceway nursery production increases shrimp survival and yields in Ecuador”. Advocate, Vol. 3(6):*****.

• *****, T. S., Samocha, T. M., Gandy, R. L., Lawrence, A. L., Jones, E. R. and McKee, D. A. 1999. “A production protocol of Penaeus aztecus (brown shrimp) for use as bait shrimp in the gulf of Mexico”. Paper presented at the ***** America ‘99. January *****, 1999, Tampa, Florida.