After graduation, I attended the University of Hawaii in the
Fall of 1966.
I volunteered for the
United States Air Force following my freshman year and did my Basic Training
with Tsune Nakago, whom you may recall from Maryknoll. I spent four years doing intelligence work,
first at the National Security Agency (NSA) and, later, in the Philippines at
Clark Air Base in direct support of operations in Vietnam. I returned to UH in September, 1971 and
graduated in 1974 with a BA in Anthropology.
After graduation, I followed my passion and worked as an
archaeologist for the Archaeological Research Center Hawaii on Kauai. I worked throughout
the islands and in American Samoa, but passion eventually met with financial
reality. I leveraged experience gained
in commercial diving and fishing while still in school and went to work for
McWayne Marine Supply. I travelled throughout
Hawaii, the Pacific and Asia representing McWayne and U.S. Divers Company, the
American branch of Jacque Cousteau’s company.
I was later hired as U.S. Divers’
Manager of Product Development in California, where I did R&D and product
development on new SCUBA products and technologies in Europe and Asia.
In 1982 I began a 28-year career with Pacific Gas and
Electric Company working in energy management.
Later, I focused on regulatory work and managed corporate relationships
with major biotech, telecoms, energy, and petroleum industry companies in California.
I retired in 2008, and began working for Chevron a week later. It’s been eight years and I’m still doing the
work I love. I now focus on power
generation, renewable resources and regulatory issues.
Along the way, I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, got
married and raised a daughter. My wife, Cindy,
a USC graduate, is in her third term as an elected member of the Walnut Creek
City Council; she has served twice as mayor. Our daughter, Katie, is married to
a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, Carson, and both are University of Washington
graduates. They have a new baby daughter, Adelaide.
For fun, I’ve run the Honolulu Marathon, climbed Mt. Whitney
with Jim Shelton and for many years I raced sailboats on San Francisco Bay. In
2004, I sailed from San Francisco to Hawaii in a small boat. I took up bicycling
again in my fifties and have ridden in the French Pyrenees. Cindy and I love to
volunteer and travel in our free time.
