Work Experience:
- One year instructional assistant for primary children in Anaheim
- Five years Perceptual Navigation Coach for World Access for the Blind
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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