Airplane Single Engine
Instrument Airplane
Instrument Ground
Advanced Ground
High Performance
Tail Wheel
Complex
Glider - CFIG
Joe is a FAA Designated Pilot Examiner - (DPE), Airman Certification Representative (ACR) for Aviation Seminars, Gold Seal Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Glider and Airplane, Instrument Ground Instructor (IGI), Advanced Ground Instructor (AGI), and holds the following other pilot ratings and endorsements - Commercial Glider, Commercial Airplane, Instrument Airplane, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Self-Launch/Motor Glider, Winch/Ground Launch Glider, Tail-Wheel, Complex, High Performance, High-Altitude Endorsements. Joe has been a pilot since the early 1980s. He also teaches for Aviation Seminars, Cypress Soaring, SoCal Soaring Academy, and served as a volunteer pilot for the San Bernardino County Sheriff Aero Squadron.
Joe holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Missouri - Columbia. For more than 24 years he has served California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) in leadership capacities as Assistant Dean for the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus (PDC), Department C
