Certified Arborist and Certified Tree Expert - Expert Witness Consultant

Technical Consultant #1252

Expert and consultant on arboriculture, trees, tree injuries, tree failures, worker safety, tree accident, tree relocation and other technical matters related to trees.
Tree and plant appraisal, plant material acquisition, plant health, plant pests and plant disease diagnostics.
Forestry, timber trespass, tree theft and forest range management.
Consultant on plant Insects, entomology, plant pests, pest control, plant diseases and plant-soil interactions.
Landscape construction and integration with trees and plants.
Registered Consulting Arborist, American Society of Consulting Arborists.
Certified Arborist, International Society of Arboriculture.
Certified Tree Expert, NJ Board of Tree Experts.
Approved Consulting Forester, NJ Parks & Forestry.

Independent Consultant

Perform full-spectrum of arboricultural consulting duties ranging from diagnosis of amenityplant problems and species attributes, to complicated tree preservation and landscape contract supervision in construction settings.
Facilitate plant acquisition and large-tree relocation projects throughout the Eastern US.
Facilitate management of privately owned woodlands by creating and guiding implementation of Forest Management and Stewardship Plans. Assess forest stand attributes, growth and yield, forest health and wildlife attributes; devise silvicultural and wildlife management prescriptions.
Assist owners with Farmland Taxation needs.
Serve as a consulting expert and expert witness in the areas of forestry, arboriculture, landscape diagnostics and forensics, and landscape-plant appraisals.
Perform wetlands construction, restoration and mitigation consulting.

Quaker Hill Native Plant Garden, Pawling, NY Head Natural Resource Manager & Managing Arborist

Served as head forester, arborist and diagnostician for a 1200 acre estate and arboretum.
Administered tree and nursery stock procurement program with120 acres of nurseries. Supervise arboriculture programs using employees and contractors.
Coordinated multi-year procurement and planting budgets in excess of $5 million.
Coordinated plant accessions program for AABGA accreditation.
Initiated and managed mature-tree procurement programs; initiated close relationships with forestry entities in the northeast US. Relocated live trees over 60â€™ tall.

Consulting Arborist, SavATree

Served in multiple roles ranging from sales and operations management in two branch offices to complex technical consulting for private estates in southeastern New York.
Trained field personnel in arboriculture, entomology and plant pathology.

Superintendent of Landscaping Facilities Management, The College of Santa Fe

Head of Landscape Management for 150 acre private college.
Faculty / Graduate Research Assistant â€“ Forest Entomology, Dept. of Entomology, Oregon State University
Undertook field and lab studies of the effects on non-target forest species of the pesticide B.t. in the Siskiyou, Klamath, Cascade and Coast Range mountains of Oregon.

Forestry Technician, Ste. Helens Ranger Dist., Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Amboy, WA

Performed numerous silvicultural duties including plant-community delineation, timber-stand improvement marking, regeneration surveys, and tree-improvement orchard management.

Laboratory & Field Technician â€“Forest Pathology, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Rutgers University

Participated in dual-track research into the biology of American chestnut blight and chestnut tree resistance to the disease.

Field observations of Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in western Oregon
Temperature-dependent development in a color-polymorphic ladybeetle, Calvia quatuordecimguttata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).