Dan started in Research Administration in 1990, as a departmental administrator, in one of Washington State University's non-academic research units, the Institute of Biological Chemistry. Dan eventually made it to the central pre-award office, after a stop at a college level administrative job, where he became the Director, in 2000, of the Office of Grant and Research Development (OGRD). In addition to being the OGRD Director, Dan holds positions in the Office of Research as the Assistant Vice-Provost for Research Administration and the Administration of Professional and Scientific Personnel (APSP) as its Director where he oversees a post-graduate personnel program for the Idaho National Lab (greater than $15.8MM in contracts since 2001). In addition, Dan has participated in many research compliance and other campus committees: IACUC, IRB, IBC, COI, Rad. Safety, Export Control, Intellectual Property, Research and Arts (faculty senate sub-committee), Office of Research Advisory Committee, Research Administrators Community, and various other committees and review panels.

In addition, Dan has been a very active member of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) since 1996 and has served in a number of capacities and at various levels at both the regional and national level: Region VI Chair, various region standing and ad-hoc committees, Region VI/VII program committees, 2006 PRA Program Committee, 2007 National Program Committee, Nominating and Leadership Development Committee, Task Force Chair, LDI Mentor, Peer Review Program Team Member, as well as making many presentations at the regional and national levels. Dan is currently serving as Vice Chair of NCURA's Professional Development Committee and as a faculty member for Fundamentals of Sponsored Project Administration Workshop.