- Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu
- Business consultant
- Founder and Chairman of the Fund for the Pacific Century/Pacific Century Fellows program
- Member of U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship and President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce (Bush administration)
- Honolulu City Councilman and former Council Chairman
- U.S. Representative to the South Pacific Commission (Clinton administration)
- Director, Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (Waihee administration)
- Director, Hawaii Office of International Relations (Waihee administration)
- Vice President for Corporate Marketing and Public Affairs and President and General Manager of Punaluu Sweetbread Shop/Visitor Center and C. Brewer Hawaiian Juices for C. Brewer and Company
- Staff Assistant to Vice President George H.W. Bush (Reagan administration)
- Special Assistant to Governor George R. Ariyoshi
- Special Assistant in the U.S. Department of the Interior (Carter administration)
- History teacher and varsity basketball coach, Iolani School