EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

 

University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia

Master of Wine Business - 2006

 

Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

Certificate in Viticulture: Wine Marketing and Sales - 2000

 

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelor of Arts, English Writing and Honors Philosophy - 1984

 

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

 

Instructor, Agriculture Department

Santa Rosa Junior College

Santa Rosa, CA

 

Instructor, Wine Studies

UC Berkeley Extension

San Francisco, CA

 

Partner, TasteWine

San Francisco, CA

 

Assistant Director, San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

San Francisco and Cloverdale, CA

 

Wine Consultant

Draeger's Markets

Menlo Park, CA

 

Wine Department Manager

Safeway

Redwood City, CA

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Perceived Wine Quality and Sonoma County's Regional Brand Image - Some Consumer Perspectives, Bacchus at Brock Conference, St. Catharine's, Ontario, 2007..

 

Perceived Wine Quality and Regional Brand Image - Their Relationship from the Consumer Perspective, submit. International Journal of Wine Business Research, 2007.

 

The Good Life Guide to Enjoying Wine, a book that serves as a primer to the world of wine, distributed nationally and in the United Kingdom, 2006.

 

Wine News from Ray Johnson, a quarterly wine newsletter subscribed to by over 1200 former students, from 1998.

 

WINE JUDGING

 

California State Fair - 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003

International Eastern Wine Competition - 2007

Pinot Noir Shootout - 2007,, 2006, 2003

Sonoma County Harvest Fair - 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002

Sign On San Deigo.com - 2005

Cabernet Sauvignon Shootout - 2004

World Wide Market International Wine Competition - 2004

Chardonnay Shootout - 2003

Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Competition - 2002

San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition - 2004

West Coast Wine Competition - 2001, 2000

California North Coast Wine Competition - 2000

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Academic classes at the Santa Rosa Junior College and UC Berkeley Extension in the following subjects:

Wines of Australia and New Zealand - from 2007

Zinfandel - From Grape to Glass - from 2007

Wines of France - from 2006

World Viticulture and Wine Styles - from 2005

Wine Service and Hospitality - from 2004

Agricultural and Wine Marketing Fundamentals - from 2003

Agricultural Sales and Communication - from 2002

Wine Regions of California - from 2002

Wines of Italy - from 2002

Wine Industry Event Planning - from 2001

Sonoma County Appellations - from 2001

Agriculture and Wine Business Management - from 2000

Country Wines of France - from 2000

Professional Wine Judging - from 2000

Winemakers of Sonoma County - from 2000

Great Wines of Northern California - from 1999

Wines of California and Europe - from 1998

 

Short Courses and seminars at:

 

Santa Rosa Junior College Community Education - 2002 - 2007

San Francisco Chamber of Commerce - 2004

Sonoma State University - 2002 - 2003

Duquesne University School of Business -  1999 - 2001

Sonoma County Wine and Visitor Center - 2000