World Taxidermy Championships (WTC)
(multiple ribbon award winner)

• Best of CategoryWinner
• Competitor Award Finalist
• Mixed Category Finalist

National Taxidermists AssociationCompetition (NTA)
(multiple ribbon award winner)

• Certified Master Taxidermist All Areas (Birds-Fish-Lifesize Mammals-Deer heads-Gameheads) This entitles me to use the "Symbol Of Excellence"
• "Award Of Excellence Honors"
  
  *Special Note: There are less than 50 taxidermists in the entire United States that are certified in all areas of taxidermy and have achieved the Award of Excellence.
  
• Certified NTA Judge
• NTA Lifetime Member

State & Related Associations Competitions
(multiple ribbon award winner)

• Most Distinguished Service Award (2 time Winner) - In recognition of outstanding contributions towards professionalism, education and the advancement of the art of taxidermy.
• Most Artistic Entry (2 time Winner) - Judges choice with emphasis on the taxidermists imagination creativity and artistic skills.
• Iowa's Best All Around Taxidermist (2 time Winner, 1 time Runner Up)
• Artist Choice (3 time Winner)
• Celebrities Choice (2 time Winner)
• People choice
• Judges Choice Best Professional Entry
• Judges Choice Best Upland Gamebird
• Safari Club International - Lifesize Mountain Goat
• Best Lifesize Mammal (2 time Winner)
• Most Original And Creative - Giraffe
• Masters Competitor and Professional Competitor Award Winner
• Multiple Masters and Professional Best of Category Winner
• Multiple Time National Turkey Federation, Whitetails Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited, Ruffed Grouse Society Award Winner

Iowa Taxidermists Association (ITA) Service Record

• Vice President (2 times)
• Show Committee Chairman (2 times)
• Board Directors (2 times)
• Treasurer
• Judges Assistant

Whitetails Unlimited (WTU) Service Record

• Outstanding Achievement Award — For 15 years of dedicated service to the local chapter effort to raise money for local community needs. Most notably was a project called "Hunters Against Hunger." This was a local project I helped WTU Field Director, Tim Powers, introduce and develop. The program allowed for banquet proceeds to cover the processing of deer that hunters willingly donated to participating meat lockers. The processed venison was then picked up and distributed by the Hawkeye Area Community Action Programs (HACAP) food pantry to those most in need. It was a wonderful and successful program for everyone involved. The pantry challenged us every year to increase the amount of processed venison and every year we met the challenge. Many people including members of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Representatives from the State learned of its goodness. Our local Hunters Against Hunger program has now been replaced by a very similar statewide program called "Help Us Stop Hunger" (HUSH). What a truely rewarding experience that continues to shed positive light on the many who choose to participate in hunting.
• WTU Lifetime Member
  
  

National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Service Record

• National Silver Life Sponsor - Personally mounted and donated a turkey mount to NWTF headquarter visitor center that won "Most Artistic Entry" at its own Wild Turkey Taxidermy Championships.
• Vice President
• Treasurer
• Personally secured the chapter's first public hunting land - an acquisition of 144 acres
• Helped secure first of many "Golden Gobbler" awards
• Dedicated suppoter of the youth "Jakes Day"