Ken is a Colorado native born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. He holds a B.A., Biology. He is a second generation Registered Environmental Health Specialist with the National Environmental Health Association and has 38 years of experience working as a generalist in all disciplines of Environmental Health. He has been the Environmental Health Director of the Delta County Health Department since its founding in1982 and prior to that he worked as an Environmental Health Specialist for Chaffee County Environmental Health and Weld County Environmental Health. He received the Colorado Environmental Health Association’s Milton M. Miller Award in 2011 for Distinguished Service in Advancing the Environmental Health Profession.