Jeff Armstrong:  

Life After high school I became a reserve police officer for Santa Ana and then joined the Orange County Sheriff Department as a full-time deputy in 1979. I also got married that year to Dawn Embree (She didn't go to THS). I transferred back to the Santa Ana Police Department in 1981, which was also when my first daughter, Cassandra, was born. My second, Shannon was born in 1986. I spent 16 years with SAPD during which time I worked patrol, child abuse investigation, School Resource Officer, patrol and station supervisor, crime scene investigator, and was a hostage negotiator for SWAT. By the way, CSI is not like the show! During my tenure I decided that I wanted to do something else so I went back to school and got BS and MS degrees in marine biology and biology, respectively. I left SAPD in 1997 and became a marine biologist with the Orange County Sanitation District in Fountain Valley. While there I earned a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from City University Los Angeles. I am now Senior Scientist in the OCSD ocean monitoring program. I have contributed to several books and have published...Expand for more