Experience To Get The Job Done

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Legislator, Alaska State Legislature, 2009 - Current, Nome and Juneau, AK

• Interim Speaker of the House, Jan - Feb 2019 
• Chair Finance Committee Operating Budget, 2019 - Current
• Chair Finance Committee Capital Budget, 2017 - 2018
• Chair Rural Bush Caucus, 2017 - 2019
• Co-Chair of Committees on Transportation, Energy, and Military & Veterans Affairs

Vice-President of Operations, Sitnasuak Native Corporation, 1998 - 2009, Nome, AK

• President, Banner Wind 
• President, Bonanza Fuel 
• Manager, Nanuaq Real Estate
• Interim Manager, The Country Hardware Store

Economic Development Specialist, Kawerak, 1997 - 1998

Investment Intern thru the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp, Ark Asset Management, 1996, New York

Foster Properties, Owner, 1994 - 2018, Nome, AK

BOARDS, COUNCILS, & MEMBERSHIPS

Director, Sitnasuak Native Corporation, 2003 - 2018

Director, Bering Straits Native Corporation, 2006 - 2018

Siu Alaska Corporation (Subsidiary of Norton Sound Economic Development), 2008 - 2017

Director, RuralCap, 2010 - 2012

Councilman, Nome City Council, 2008 - 2009

Alaska Workforce Investment Board 2003 - 2009

Tribal Member, Nome Eskimo Community

Member, Pioneers of Alaska, Pioneer Igloo #1

EDUCATION 

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1994 - 1997

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Stanford University, 1991 - 1994

Legal & Political Philosophy, Study Abroad at Oxford University, 1993

Nome-Beltz High School, Valedictorian, 1990