Experience

WKBN-TV

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• News Director

  • Feb 2014 - Present

  Youngstown, Ohio Area I manage a great team of journalists producing 11 hours of live news a day on THREE network-affiliated stations: WKBN (CBS) / WYFX (FOX) / WYTV (ABC)



WKBN/WYFX/WYTV - LIN Media

• Assistant & Interim News Director

  • Sep 2013 - Feb 2014

  Youngstown, Ohio



WSOC-TV Eyewitness News

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• News Executive Producer

  • Dec 2006 - Sep 2013

  Charlotte, North Carolina Area I managed a dynamic team of journalists that put on Charlotte's most-watched morning newscast. We had the number one 4:30 a.m. local newscast in the nation, and our 5 & 6 a.m. newscasts ranked in the top 10.



Media General - WBTW News13

• Executive Producer

  • Nov 2003 - Dec 2006

  Myrtle Beach, SC - Florence, SC I oversaw the content flow of the CBS affiliate in Myrtle Beach-Florence, SC and managed the day-to-day operations of the Myrtle Beach studio.

• Anchor/Reporter

  • Aug 1999 - Nov 2003

  Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Area Investigative & consumer reporter for the CBS affiliate in eastern North & South Carolina.



Time Warner Cable AdCast

• United States
• Information Services

• Creative Director/ Commercial Producer

  • May 1997 - Aug 1999

  Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area Supervisor, Producer, Director, Writer and Editor of commercials, PSAs, Promos and long-form programming for a cable interconnect of more than 1.2 million subscribers. Wrote, Storyboarded & Directed video and 35mm film productions. Part of the pioneering use of non-linear editing in the Carolinas.



WECT News 6

• Bureau Chief

  • Jan 1991 - Apr 1997

  Wilmington, North Carolina Area Reporter, photographer, anchor, producer, one man band (called a Video Journalist or Multimedia Journalist in the 21st Century lexicon of television.) I covered 5 counties in southeastern North Carolina for Channel 6.



WKFT-TV 40

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Production Assistant

  • 1990 - 1990

  Fayetteville, North Carolina Area