The Executive Director of NDCPD. He has a doctorate in Special Education and Rehabilitation from the University of Oregon (1988), and Bachelors (1980) and Masters (1982) Degrees in Counseling and School Psychology from Utah State University.

He worked as a School Psychologist for the Shelley, Idaho Public Schools and as Research Coordinator and Consulting Psychologist for the Dine' Center on Human Development at Navajo Community College. After completing his doctorate, he worked for the Eugene Oregon Public Schools as a Research Associate for two years. He has also worked as an Associate Professor in Special Education and Associate Director for the Idaho University Affiliated Program. His research interests include assistive technology, program evaluation, longitudinal research with at-risk populations, and distance education. Recently funded projects include a study to evaluate the effectiveness of real-time online captioning for students with disabilities and a project to provide a six-year study on the effects of hearing screening tests to newborns in North Dakota.