SUMMARY:

• Applied Anthropology; Open - source Primary and Secondary research data collection and analysis
• Socio-cultural Anthropology; Socio-cultural research methods and multidisciplinary collection instruments
• Biological Anthropology - Native American Graves and Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Implementation
• Human Terrain Systems in Afghanistan and Combat Ethnography; Female Engagements in Afghanistan
• Natural and Cultural Resource Management; Syncretism of Human Factors and Ecosystems
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous science methods
• Social and Community Forestry; Agroforestry
• Alaska Natives and other Native Americans
• Alaska rural land management and the Confidential
• Alaska subsistence - customary and traditional uses of fish, wildlife and plants
• Western Pacific Islands’ agroforestry, rural infrastructural development, capacity-building and ecosystem reclamation (i.e., reforestation, afforestation, watershed management and cross-cultural understanding amongst all stakeholders.)
• Southeast Asian and Oceania Migration and Human prehistory
• Analyst to Confidential, Air Force and Navy personnel on cultural and natural resource management projects and rebuilding efforts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Consulting Social Scientist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consultant in small Army organization of eight personnel providing socio-cultural, anthropological and combat ethnographic expertise to Army-wide stakeholders and G-2 staff.
• Participate in several Team projects at request of Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF), such as complex cultural assessments and other intelligence preparation of the battleground.
• Extensive research, writing and editing of socio-cultural products, usually in Team collaboration.
• Direct Support for DoD Joint Operations Information Warfare training exercise providing social science expertise (, 2017).
• Provide peer review of DoD organizations drafts of socio-cultural factors.
• Co-Leader of GCKN E-Intern Program.
• Populate content to developing GCKN research network called OEConnect to provide Army-wide interactive access of both socio-cultural and other scientific knowledge relevant to the Operational Environment (OE).
• Research and recruit for OEConnect social science Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), key seminal social science publications and sources and region-specific possible conflict area populations and threat actors.
• Possess Interim Secret Security Clearance for position.

Research Scientist

Confidential, Houghton, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Estimate the impact of forest and socio-cultural management practices on wood decomposition in the forest floor and mineral soil.
• Direct six undergraduate students and two graduate students in managing the work for this Project - throughout the summer and fall semesters.
• Assess and analyze global carbon cyclic modeling for multiple human uses, across the Northern Hemisphere.
• Co-author and contributor for Project’s reports, research protocols and publications; collaborated with other cooperating multidisciplinary scientists in team framework.
• Perform work using Geographic Information Services (GIS) ARC View software, version 9.1, for a multi-agency contract.
• Extensive fieldwork for half of every year; research design; data collection; and analysis.

Social Scientist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement operationally-relevant socio-cultural research designs and plans for Human Terrain Teams (HTT’s) in the theatre of Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom ( Confidential ); attached to infantry brigades as embedded advisor and support personnel; majority of assignment performed with battalions in outlying, provincial regions.
• Possess Secret Security Clearances for DoD and contractor employment.
• Author and co-author products of all operationally-relevant research data collected: in-depth reports and analyses, Commander Executive Summaries, and Power Point presentations.
• Analyze and assess all matters relating to social scientific subjects, as requested by Confidential Unit Commanders’, other Command Staff, attached enablers and HTT team members and colleagues, such as interpreting theatre surveys and micro surveys performed by other organizations.
• Disseminate RRC products to interested stakeholders, in theatre.
• Perform extensive fieldwork and data collection outside the wire, focusing on primary data and associated windshield ethnographic observations.
• Brief Confidential Unit Cdr’s, civilian agencies representatives and local Afghan groups on HTT’s research objectives and results.
• Collaborate with military personnel, Civilian representatives and local representatives, such as the Director of Women’s Affairs (DOWA), by province.
• Served five (5) months with HTT AF8, out of Kandahar Air Field (KAF) .
• Served from with HTT AF3, out of Jalalabad Air Field (JAF), Team Leader, Mr. Robert Chelone; completed more than 270 OCONUS deployed days with Confidential .
• On approved leave from Confidential Holding Company, Mr. Dave Mamaux-Director, Ft. Leavenworth until 14-month appointment ended; just termed out by Confidential .

Social Scientist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attend 4 ½ months training program for Confidential theatre
• Perform curriculum assignments and preparations for all courses.
• Graduated from Confidential
• Trained with 10th Mountain, 1-87 ID at JRTC, Ft. Polk, LS

Social Scientist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Serve as full-time social science researcher in the Natural Resources Department, in this non-profit arm of the Confidential ( Confidential ) regional corporation, serving 38 primarily Yup’ik Eskimo and Deg Hit’an Athapaskan villages in rural Alaska.
• Collaborate in a team framework with a Fishery Biologist, Wildlife Biologist and Alaska Native Cultural Specialists.
• Advise and mentor six university/undergraduate interns, including extensive fieldwork involving multi-agency cooperation, such as the NPS in the Katmai National Park and Preserve, the Confidential -Fairbanks large mammal center and private archaeological contractors.
• Design cooperative, multidisciplinary applied and research projects involving Alaska Natives from the Bristol Bay Region as the major stakeholders, state and federal agencies, universities and other Native American organizations.
• Analyze, conduct and author of continuing existing social science projects, draft documents for potential future research, such as for customary trade and barter studies; all Projects developed to be sustainable - both economically and culturally.

Anthropology Instructor and Facilitator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Advised and analyzed all matters relating to customary and traditional use of fish and wildlife resources in regulatory form, for Federal subsistence management in Alaska; many diverse duties, including research analyses on customary and traditional uses;
• Responsible for anthropological assistance to 56 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Rivers Delta of southwest Alaska and the Eastern and Western Interior Regions, in federal and some state regulatory matters; socio-cultural technical expertise to the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak Island and the Bristol Bay regions for fisheries research and capacity building.
• Selected (2000) and served as the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR)/ USFWS Representative Social Scientist, and Chaired the Technical Evaluation Panel (TEP), for a third-party contract, totaling over $260,000. “Rural and Non-rural Determinations for Federal Subsistence Priority in Alaska.”
• Promoted to the fisheries research arm of this federal organization: The Fisheries Information Services Department (FIS); served as one of two anthropologists in this Branch and worked with many fishery and wildlife biologists in-and-out of federal service, in a Team Framework.
• Authored and co-authored numerous analyses, executive summaries, research designs, and fieldwork reports for professional and laymen audiences and stakeholders.
• Presented and testified at numerous state, federal and local agency meetings and hearings.
• A pre-employment background investigation was performed for this position; held a conditional security clearance.

Archaeological Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Surveyed and excavated Eskimo archaeological site of 2,000-year-old semi-subterranean house pits as part of eight-person team; not supervisory.
• Performed all duties of archaeological excavation, including digging, hauling substantial amounts of soil, excavation in cross-trench site, detailed removal of flint projectile points, coarse pottery shards, hearth charcoal; and all laboratory tasks, such as bagging, preservation, cleaning, report production, sketches, etc.
• Mentored and taught local village schoolchildren on archaeological and cultural material techniques, and interview skills.
• Resided in Yup'ik Eskimo village for two months, and worked alongside tribal village representatives, other elders and cooperating scientists.

Alaska Native Land Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as Lands and cultural resource specialist for an Confidential ( Confidential ; 1971) Village Corporation, encompassing four interior Alaskan villages: Alatna, Allakaket, Huslia and Hughes; private landholdings totaled over 350,000 acres in interior Alaska.
• Authored and finalized corporate obligations to their member villages and tribal members, including extensive field work in all villages; authored and co-authored several Board of Directors’ Reports, manuals, research designs, maps, newsletters and election documents.
• Managed organization’s cultural associated grave goods and human remains originally taken from tribal land and neighboring lands; assisted Alaska Native Elders’ Committee, “Denaakanaaga.”
• Assisted and collaborated with other Alaska Native organizations, federal and state land management agencies (NPS, BLM, USFWS, USDA FS and BIA), wilderness organizations and ecotourism businesses, and many cooperative ventures with all groups.
• Analyzed third party and in-house research proposals, and presented organization’s findings, hunting and land use policies to diverse audiences.
• Testified for organization as technical expert for federal and land agency regulatory matters.

Physical Anthropologist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Inventoried and managed all human remains for compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) housed in the Museum and Anthropology Department.
• Conducted ethnographic research; data base creation and reports on the museum’s progress, for the required filing by 1995 to Native American and Alaska Native federally recognized Tribal Councils; Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) Tribal Councils, other non-profit indigenous groups, for-profit Alaskan Native corporations; some correspondence with international agents in the pursuit of Alaska Native remains taken out of the US.
• Attended and participated as technical expert in NAGPRA consultation meetings with Native Alaskan Elders and village tribal committees/councils as part of “NAGPRA Review Committee."
• Analyzed all diseases, fractures, ages, sex, culture or other impacts left on skeletal remains to preserve and protect these long-dead individuals’ cultural histories.
• Co-authored numerous reports to university, state, federal and Alaska Native agencies and organizations.
• Worked in a team framework with archaeologists, ethnographers, zoo archaeologists, linguists and other experts; was responsible for all human remains, their organization and maintaining the respectful integrity and dignity required.
• Consulted with Smithsonian staff archaeologists, participating in consultation meetings with St. Lawrence Siberian Yup’ik elders, and other Tribal representatives, on the future for their village’s UAF and Smithsonian museums’ holdings.

Anthropology Instructor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Taught undergraduate lectures and labs for the Department of Anthropology.
• Assisted faculty for three years of TA funding, including all main disciplines of UAF’s anthropology/archaeology undergraduate program; President of Anthropology Students’ Association for two years.
• Assisted Lead Project Scientist for Pacific Islands’ Social and Cultural Forestry research endeavors, which included U.S. Trust Territories, Commonwealth Nations, Republic of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.
• Applied anthropological and social forestry cooperative research designs and analyses, with local village agencies, involving: traditional food production and modern “western” technologies; agroforestry; social forestry; mudslide and coral reef protection; sustainable fisheries; endangered species’ conservation; and, firewood tree planting.
• Served as Field Guam Agent for U.S. Naval Lands Reforestation Project; supervised Guam Department of Soils and Forestry Division and the Department of Agriculture’s staff, in a multi-agency cooperative agreement, 1996; partnered with other Department of Defense groups, such as the US Air Force and their lands; and USDA NCRS (formerly SCS), out of Guam; and NPS managers in the development of a national historical park (War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Asan, US Territory of Guam.
• Traveled extensively and conducted fieldwork in extreme climatic and rural natural conditions; worked on six separate applied and research projects in Oahu, Hawaii; The Marshall Islands, American Samoa, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia (i.e., Chuuk Truk, Pohnpei, Yap and Kosrae); U.S. Trust Territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (i.e., Saipan, Rota and Tinian).
• Analyzed, authored an co-authored projects on reforestation and afforestation of deficient savanna uplands; endangered tree species conservation and transplantation; mahogany tree stand research development for natural and cultural trail, in U.S. National Historical Park on Guam; forest plantations inventories; nitrogen-fixing trees and bushes to assist local farmers with crop (i.e., taro, cassava, breadfruit, mango) and soil health; watershed restoration and research; and the cultural uses of fire to draw prized introduced deer (in 1700s) for poaching - deer used for important religious and other cultural events, such as memorial funerals, fiestas and Saints’ days.
• A pre-employment background investigation was performed for this position; held a conditional security clearance.
• Assisted in a special research project, “Reanalysis of Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest," being conducted by the Pacific Southwest Research Station.
• Extensive fieldwork in northern California old-growth forests, including remeasurement and other Mensuration variables, of 50-year-old research plots, colonized by mainly Ponderosa Pine and cedars, after extensive logging after both world wars;
• Collected silvicultural and human terrain data, for over 2000 acres on federally-managed old-growth forests.
• Co-authored work reports, research designs and study parameters and protocols.
• Installed new plots, analyzed methodological change to ecological units, not only seeing the forest ‘for the trees - as timber and board feet; counted snag bird nests, for example.
• Promoted to Crew Supervisor in second year of Project and worked with many former military veterans as subordinates.

Forestry Research Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in soils and other biomass field collection; laboratory testing, sample preparation and laboratory analysis; and fieldwork; in exotic species, such as radiata pine, various eucalypts and introduced redwoods (Sequoia)
• Conducted fieldwork all-around both the North and South Islands of this incredibly diverse land ‘Down-under.’
• Recorded and assessed cultural and other human terrain data in forest and “boonie” areas.
• Performed chemical laboratory analyses and macro elemental methodologies on soils, plant and insect samples.
• Served as Lead Project Scientist’s assistant in all assignments.
• Assisted in soils lab technical duties for the Department of Forestry and Wood Resources, which included: soils and other biomass field collection; laboratory testing and sample preparation for tests; and extensive fieldwork in Midwestern states.