Upon graduation, he taught instrumental music for fourteen years in the Shoreline School District, eight years as the director of bands at Shorewood High School. After completing a masters degree in education administration at Seattle Pacific University, Rob spent the last sixteen years of his career as a school administrator in the Arlington School District retiring as the assistant superintendent.

Besides his involvement with the North Cascades Concert Band, Rob is the past president of the Everett Symphony Board and of the Everett Youth Symphony.

In his spare time Rob enjoys his grandchildren, golfing, hiking, boating, fishing, telling jokes and, of course, listening to music. Rob has been a practicing trombonist for more than 50 years, and has been with the North Cascades Concert Band since 2000, first as a trombonist, and now as director