Received Ph.D. at the University of Florida, Gainesville; pursued professorships in radiation biology at the University of Bonn, Germany, and tropical ecology at the Federal School of Tropical Ecology, Cardenas, Tabasco, Mexico; and entomology research at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Currently, a State Entomologist at the Texas Department of Agriculture, Austin for biosecurity, safeguarding agriculture, and agricultural resource management. President of the Southern Plant Board, and Board Member of the National Plant Board.