Work Experience:

 

  • One year instructional assistant for primary children in Anaheim
  • Five years Perceptual Navigation Coach for World Access for the Blind
  • Logged over 2,000 hours of service assisting  with and providing professional development  workshops, seminars for higher education
  • Private trainings for students and families,  and technical consulting for academic science and research
  • Two years construction and landscaping supervisor
  • Five years assistive technology instructor

 

Notable Achievements:

 

  • CIF wrestling champion
  • Helped to found the Team Bat program, which led to the foundation of World Access for the Blind
  • First Perceptual Navigation and FlashSonar Coach to be hired and trained at World Access for the Blind
  • Provided translation services and coaching assistance for the first foreign WAFTB workshop in México
  • Set Guinness World Record by invitation for blind bicycling, then broke that record also by Guinness invitation
  • First Blind echolocator to be featured on National Geographic TV, which led to several subsequent NatGeo programs and articles about echolocation and FlashSonar
  • Featured subject in multiple TV New, segments and documentaries including: Discovery's More Than Human, Real Super Humans, Pen and Teller, BBC's Super Human Challenge, The Jeff Probs Show, Don Francisco, ABC Nightly News
  • National Geographic TV's Humanly Impossible
  • Two Japanese documentaries
  • Appeared in multiple TV programs including Ripley's Believe It or Not; Spiegel TV; Deutch Prisma; Arte Documentary; Fox News documentary (Seeing with Sound); HD Net's World Report (Blind as a Bat: Seeing without Eyesight, as well as various Italian, Austrian, Russian, British, and German programs
  • Written about in multiple popular periodicals including Men's Journal, Orange County Register (several occasions), Mountain Bike, Action Magazine, Bicycle Magazine, and a variety of Kenyan and Austrian newspapers
  • First blind instructor to provide seminars to higher education
  • Classes on rehab and mobility preparation in Austria and Italy
  • First blind instructor to co-present a mobility workshop for the German school's for the blind headmasters conference
  • First blind instructor to be appointed by the Austrian Government's Ministry of Education to provide professional development training to all Mobility Specialists throughout Austria
  • Involved as co-instructor in the first Chilean national research
  • Project to assess the viability of Perceptual Navigation and FlashSonar instruction