I currently work as a contact representative with the US Government.  I started at the VA Medical Center in 2001, almost a month after 9/11, and went downtown to work at the Federal Building in 2008.  I have been a government employee for 15 years.  Prior to that, I worked in customer service with a credit card company, and prior to that as a lecturer with NASA.

Broadcasting was a dream I realized when I was graduating from high school.  After determining that engineering was too technical for me, I attended a session on the communication field at John Carroll University, and I was excited about choosing that as a major.  After trying different fields that didn’t pan out, I declared communication as my major, but studied public relations and advertising.  The position I held with NASA for nearly four years came about after serving an internship with an advertising agency that had the contract for the Visitor Center at the time.

I am the youngest in my family.  My father is a minister who pastored a church for 48 years and had many more years in ministry overall.  My mother was a nurse.  I had two brothers and two sisters, and the one brother who was the baby before I came died in 1993.  My mother died a few years later in 1996, about five months before I married my wife, and had a family of my own.  Our son is married with a daughter, and we have a daughter who is a senior in high school.  I feel blessed to have been gifted with an awesome family, comprised of those I grew up with and those I live with today, and I love them all.

My aspirations for the broadcasting field are varied at best.  So far I have enjoyed learning audio production and editing, and I think I will enjoy making commercials and PSAs for radio.  Click to hear my demo.  I once mentioned the idea of having a late night talk show, featuring various artists in Christian music and other artistic areas.  Ultimately, I hope to develop a series for radio drama or audio theatre, something of an action series with a different kind of superhero; it’s still a work in progress.