I began my professional career as a credit analyst at, what was then, United Bank of Denver (now Wells Fargo, N.A.). For three years I worked in the bank’s international department, both in operations as well as the credit and business development side. In 1984, I left UBD to join CoBank which is where I worked for the next seventeen years.

My early responsibilities at CoBank included marketing international banking services to agribusinesses and cooperatives throughout the U.S. From 1990 to 2000, I was head of the Latin America Division. I managed a loan portfolio in Mexico and Latin America which, by 1998, had grown to US$1.024 billion and represented 49.6 percent of CoBank’s total international portfolio. These loans were divided between 91 corporate and foreign correspondent bank borrowers in 15 countries. During my tenure at CoBank, I worked closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture through their various export incentive programs. I managed a staff of nine people in Denver, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, with five senior portfolio managers and account officers reporting directly to me. I opened CoBank's first foreign representative office in Mexico City in 1993 and the third office in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1999.

In 2000, I was offered the opportunity to join Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) to establish and manage their trade finance operations which eventually evolved into a wholly-owned subsidiary. I reported to the company’s Chief Financial Officer and managed a staff of sixteen professionals in Decatur-Illinois, Minneapolis, Hamburg-Germany, Singapore and São Paulo- Brazil. In three years, we generated more than US$22 million in annual revenue by creating financial products based on the commodity exports of ADM and A.C. Toepfer International. I worked closely with bank and corporate customers in 20 countries in developing creative and economic funding strategies.

In 2004, I established my own trade finance company - Rocky Mountain Global Trade - to leverage the experience and contacts I’d gained after 20+ years in the corporate sector. RMGT added value to commodity exports worldwide through innovative trade finance programs, including extensive use of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s GSM-102 Export Credit Guarantee Program. I also assisted exporters and importers in developing overseas markets and managing their payment and credit risks.

After a long career in international banking and trade finance I decided to pursue a different path. For several years I had been working with Full Circle Restorative Justice, a non-profit organization in Salida, Colorado. Through FCRJ I became passionate about facilitating restorative justice circles, mainly with youth in our community. I joined the board of FCRJ and eventually became one of the lead RJ facilitators. It was through RJ that I developed an interest in mediation and, in 2015, I did my initial 40-hours of mediation training with Phoenix Strategies, Inc. in Colorado Springs. Since then, I have completed numerous additional trainings and have mediated over 600 cases in Chaffee County, Colorado’s 7th Judicial District and beyond. My mediation cases have involved contract disputes, construction issues, parenting and divorce, homeowners’ associations (HOAs) and general situations where parties are in conflict.

While I was developing my mediation practice, I was also engaged in trainings to become a life and business coach. This was a long-held dream of mine based on the personal growth work I had done over many years, and my experience as a manager and corporate executive. Much of my training was based on the work of Ken Wilbur, Robert Kegan and others in the field of Integral Theory. I am particularly interested in working with men based largely on my own journey around men’s issues through the Mankind Project, Men’s Leadership Alliance and similar organizations. For more on my coaching practice, check out the “coaching” tab on my web page.