B.S. - Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, June 1973. Research with Prof. Curtis B. Anderson.
Ph.D. - Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, March 1977, Research with Prof. John E. McMurry, Dissertation - Part I: "Total Synthesis of (±)-cis -Sativenediol", Part II: "Titanium (II)-Induced Coupling of Allylic and Benzylic Alcohols."
Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, January-December 1981. Research with Prof. Samuel J. Danishefsky in the area of Natural Product Total Synthesis.
Professor, Department of Chemistry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, September 1988-Present.
Visiting Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Research with Prof. Chi- Wong, September 1999-September 2000.
Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, June 1996-July 1996, Lecturer in Organic Chemistry.
Visiting Professor, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. Research in the area of Supramolecular Chemistry with Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, October 1992-November 1993.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 1984-August 1986.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, September 1983-September 1988.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, September 1978-September 1983.