Freelance Photographer, Southern California; Nov. 2006-date - clients include: AP, Reuters, EPA, New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Boston Herald. Copyrighted work distributed by ZUMA Press.

Photo Editor, ZUMA Press; Jan. 2007-date.

Staff Photographer, Orange County Register, Santa Ana, California; 1993-2006 - Relied upon to handle tight deadlines and difficult assignments, traveling frequently, including as an embed during the invasion of Iraq. Contributed on the technology side training colleagues, and implementing new hardware and software solutions in the newsroom. Filled in as photo editor when needed.

Freedom Forum Fellowship Hawaii; 1991-92 - A year long program in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii where I also spent time preparing for the digital future by studying computer science.

Staff Photographer, Associated Press, Beijing, China; 1988-91 - I was responsible for coverage of China and Mongolia, and my time there included: eight weeks of student protests culminating in the Tiananmen Massacre, a year of martial law, the visit of the first President Bush, and the first ever Mongolian election.

Freelance Photographer - China; 1987-88 - clients included: AP, Reuters, Newsweek, and L.A. Times.

Staff Photographer, Associated Press, Los Angeles; 1986-87

Teacher of English, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China; 1985-86

I worked my way through college stringing for the AP and the Long Beach Press Telegram while majoring in History and minoring in PoliSci at California State University, Long Beach.

I've traveled extensively on assignment in China, and work and vacations have taken me to, Mongolia, Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Kuwait, and Iraq.

I speak Mandarin Chinese fairly well, and rudimentary French and Spanish.