Assistant Research Director, Early Childhood Research Institute, 1979-1981, Bureau of Child Research. University of Kansas, assisting faculty and graduate students with over 50 different research projects
Research Associate, Co-Director, Parent Program, Bureau of Child Research, University of Kansas, 1981-1987, developing and evaluating parenting interventions for families with young children.
National Research Advisory Council Senior Fellow, Wellington, New Zealand, 1983-1986, developing and evaluating health promotion and injury prevention programs for early childhood
President, Quality Time, Inc., Tucson, AZ 1987-1991; Duties: managing, developing, testing and marketing social science strategies, including strategic marketing for mental health services involving advertising, positioning, clinical programs, clinical interventions, and social marketing for treatment centers and other organizations; developed series PTSD programs for Pentagon for eary childhood and early youth violence prevention efforts; commercialized brief intervention packages for parenting based on prior research at KU and NZ.
Chief Executive Officer & President, Heartsprings, Inc., Tucson, AZ 1991-June, 1998; Duties: overall planning for product development, creation, grants, publicity, quality control, strategic alliances, and major marketing and sales efforts in areas of national violence prevention programs. Major creative contributions for over 20 publications. Researcher and creator of PeaceBuilders, a best-practice violence prevention effort funded by the US Centers for Disease Control.
Chief Executive Officer & President, PAXIS Institute, Tucson, AZ, July 1998-Present: The company is designed to identify, develop, test, study and market large-scale behavior change programs for prevention, treatment, medical services, education, law-enforcement, mental health, substance abuse and bio-terrorism. The company has projects with state governments, local governments, private companies, universities, publishers or media companies and non-profit organizations.

Honors
Department of Defense Award in Support of Families Affected by Operation Desert Storm, 1991
Desert Storm Medal, Seventh U.S. Army, awarded in recognition of support of families and children affected by Operation Desert Storm, 1991
Glietzman Foundation Nominee for Citizen Activist, 1996
Various awards for violence prevention and mental health advocacy; violence prevention program named as “best practice” by a variety of national organizations
Featured story in People Magazine, April 5, 1999 for national role in violence prevention.
Science to Practice Awardee, Society for Prevention Research, 2006

Boards
Member, Arizona School Safety Commission, Arizona State Senate, 1999 – 2000.
Board of Directors, Prosocial Applications, Boulder, CO, 2003 to present
Juvenile Services Coordinating Council, Pima County, AZ; 2001 to present.v Steering Committee on Prevention Consensus, Center for Advanced Studies of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2000- 2001
Member, National Advisory Board for the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Kent State University, 2000 to present
NIMH Special Emphasis Panel for Developing and Advanced Centers for Interventions and Services Research, 2005
NIMH panel on Interventions And Practice Research Infrastructure Program (IP-RISP), 2004 to present
Member, Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) External Technical Advisory Group (ETAG) for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, 2005 to present
Member, AZ Governor’s Methamphetamine Taskforce, 2006 to present
Chair, Emerging Trends Committee, Arizona Governor’s Office, 2007

Consultantships (recent examples)
National Center for Violent Injury Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA—integration of program and research for domestic violence prevention, 1995, 1996.v Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Best Practices for Violence Prevention, 1998-2000.
Governor’s Advisory Board on Substance Abuse of the State of Wyoming. Substance abuse policy planning. October 1999 to the present.
Governor’s Office, State of Wyoming. Tobacco use prevention blueprint. January, 2000.
Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. Youth Problem Prevention Group, 2000 –2001
National Interagency Civil-Military Institute, United States National Guard, on substance abuse prevention issues and current scientific trends, 2000 – 2003
National Crime Prevention Council, juvenile delinquency prevention, 2000 –01
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Kent State University, 2000 – to present
Wyoming Department of Family Services, child and family policy issues, 2003 to present
All Children’s Service and Prevention Committee, Cherokee County, KS, 2002 to present
Department of Social Rehabilitative Services, State of Kansas, child and family policy issues, 2005
Division of Disability and Elder Services, State of Wisconsin, prevention and treatment issues, 2005
Kansas Children’s Service League and Wichita Children’s Home, 2005 to present
CompassPoint Wellness, Cheyenne, WY 2005 to present
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, 2002-to present
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, 2003-to present
Greater Houston Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Houston, TX, 2005 to present
Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, State of Maine, 2006 to present