Current Occupation: music and band instrument lessons, Music theory instructor.

Awards: PTA Honorary Service Award (Loma Portal Elementary); PTO Honorary Service Award (Correia JHS); Nominee Del Mar Fair “Music Mania” Banner Project; Honoree Point Loma High School Bands “Rhapsody on the Point;” Induction to the Florida State University College of Music “Wall of Fame" (FSU Band Alumni), CMEA Retired Music Educator of the Year.

Education: Converse College and Florida State University (BME); San Diego State University (MA); National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan; California Life Credential (Music K-12).

Co-founder: Peninsula Bands in Concert

Founder: Band at the Beach© and Band at the Beach Music Camp© , Floot Troop©; Summer Saxophone Insanity©.

Memberships: California Band Directors’ Association; CMEA/Southern Border Section; San Diego Clarinet Society; San Diego Flute Guild; Music Teachers Association of California (Certificate of Merit teacher); Presidio Optimist Club; Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association; Women Band Directors International; Sousa Honor Band (Staff); National Association for Music Education.

Participant: Community Council for Music in Our Schools; Organizer FSU Band Alumni for Disneyland Pigskin Classic; Florida State University Band Alumni Board of Directors; Full Bar Saxophone Quartet; Pit Orchestra for West Coast Premiere of “Sing for the Cure” narrated by Michelle Nichols (Lt. Uhuru from Star Trek); San Diego Concert Band (Principal Saxophone); San Diego Concert Band European Tour; Saxophone Christmas (Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland); Westwind Brass International Summer Workshop; USD Chamber Music Workshop; Hillcrest Wind Ensemble (clarinet), San Diego City Guard Band (clarinet), San Diego Bassoon Band, Bayfront Ceremonial Band, SDSU Summer Music Institute (volunteer),CMEA/SBS Educator Band 2013, member of the Spartanburg (SC), Symphony and the Tallahassee(FL) Symphony.