Pesticides and environmental protection expert witness with over 35 years of experience in pest control, agriculture, pesticide regulation, inspection programs, incident response, and agricultural environmental services. His work includes pesticides, entomology, inspections and responses to pesticide uses and misuses, fertilizers, pesticide applicator licensing, investigations, training policies, and environmental procedures affecting agricultural operations. He also has nearly 1 year of consulting experience after retiring from the Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, where his responsibilities involved agricultural environmental services, compliance monitoring, pest control, inspection, and incident response. He earned a BS in agricultural economics and holds credentials including Certified Public Manager, Incident Command System training completion, Pest Control ID cardholder status, Pesticide Regulatory and Sampling Category, and emergency response training for domestic biological incidents.

His background includes pesticide and fertilizer inspection, feed and seed inspection, compliance monitoring, fumigation issues, pesticide licensing examination procedures, emergency exemption reporting, and programs involving cancelled, suspended, and unusable pesticides. He has worked with training and instructional programs, including U.S. EPA regional training seminars, EPA WPS attorney case developer training, DACS/EPA training, continuing education instruction, and USEPA PREP courses. In environmental, agricultural, and pest control disputes, his experience supports analysis involving pesticide application practices, regulatory procedures, licensing issues, investigation processes, and alleged pesticide use or misuse. His professional involvement includes the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials, Fertilizer Program and Labeling Committees, Commercial Feed Technical Council, Seed Investigation and Conciliation Council, Seed Technical Council, Commercial Fertilizer Technical Council, State/Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act Issues, Research and Evaluation Group, Fumigation Advisory Committee, and Association of Structural Pest Control Fumigation Committee. He also contributed technical input to the development of the Pesticide Applicator Certification and Licensing Manual in Florida.