Marine Engineer, graduate NY Maritime College; 20+ years marine and operational experience; Business Development, Sales and Marketing for Pharos Offshore Group; eight years U.S. Merchant Marine Engineering officer aboard Oil Tankers and Tyco Telecommunications (now TE SubCom) cable ships; construction management, cable ships; asset management system for TE SubCom’s sixteen cable laying ploughs and cable maintenance ROVs.

Research Faculty at Virginia Tech’s Autonomous Research and Controls Laboratory and their Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Lab; designed/fabricated instrumentation and hardware for testing weapons systems for gov't agencies; design of ballistic instrumentation and underwater vehicle technology and control systems; 15+ years design, development and testing with electromechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and control systems; designer of Company’s ROSMVs.

Registered professional geologist, B.S., Geology, Regents College of New York; provides mining and mineral exploration expertise.
25 years experience in mining and mineral exploration industry: early stage exploration, mine development, operations, and mine closure.
Owns and operates a suction dredge that mines for gold off the coast of western Alaska.