August 2004 to present.
Stallion Seasons and Matings Advisor Three Chimneys Farm, Midway, KY.
Speaker for pedigree component of TOBA Owners Seminar in Ocala (March 2007).

Speaker for pedigree component of TOBA Owners Seminar in Ocala (March 2006).
Speaker for pedigree component of TOBA Owners Seminar in Lexington (October 2005).
Guest speaker for the Louisville Thoroughbred Club (March 2005).
Speaker at Maryland Horse World Expo (February 2005).
Partner on the website Thoroughbred Heritage since its creation in 1999.

1999 to August 2004. 
Freelance pedigree consultant and writer. 
Editor and columnist for Owner-Breeder International, a monthly newsletter.
Monthly pedigree columnist for Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred.
Contributor to Thoroughbred Times (print and e-mail versions),
The Blood-Horse's MarketWatch Newsletter,
European Bloodstock News,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
and other publications.
Creator, editor and writer for the website Pedigree Post.
Panel member on The Blood-Horse's 3-part series of articles -
round table discussion with 6 noted pedigree consultants (April 2004).
Speaker on the 2003 TIEC panel discussion on pedigrees (June 2003).
Speaker at pedigree seminar for the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association
(September 2001).
Speaker at pedigree seminar for the Maryland Horse Breeders (October 2000).

1996-1999. Highflyer International, Ltd., Upper Brookville, NY. 
Chief pedigree consultant, co-editor and regular contributor
to Highflyer Journal, a monthly newsletter.

1995.  First edition of the book "Patterns of Greatness II:  the Americans."
Co-authored with Alan Porter, published by Highflyer International. 

1990-1996. Freelance pedigree consultant and writer for Highflyer Journal and The Blood-Horse. 

1983-1989. Three Chimneys Farm, Midway, KY. 
Pedigree specialist for one of the most prestigious Thoroughbred farms in the world.  Suggested the matings that produced the Three Chimneys' homebred filly Gorgeous-G1, besides other Group/Graded stakes winners Crowned-G2, Infamous Deed-G3, Polski Boy-G3, and Marillette-G3.  (Marillette's full brother Storm Trooper won the 1998 Hollywood Turf H.-G1.  Crowned is the dam of the 1999 Peter Pan S.-G2 winner Best of Luck.)

1979-1983.  Various jobs working my way up through the Thoroughbred industry: 
office assistant, hot walker, sales groom, farm secretary, pedigree researcher.

1975-1979.  University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 
Graduated with honors as an Animal Science major, concentration in horse management and breeding. Alpha Zeta honors fraternity. 

1975.  Shaler Area High School, Glenshaw, PA. 
Graduated with honors. 

ca. 1967-1975. Read every horse book in the local library.  Began letter-writing campaign to the major horse farms in North America asking for photos or information on the farms and stallions. 

1962.  Could not convince parents to exchange newborn baby sister for a baby horse.

Grew up in the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.