Thirty years as a photojournalist at four newspapers in Georgia, Massachusetts and Tennessee. Thirteen of those years as picture editor and senior photographer at The Tennessean in Nashville. While there he initiated the transition from film to digital, helped establish the use of their digital archive system and was the lead digital imaging trainer. Attended numerous professional workshops at the Poynter Institute, University of Missouri, UNC-CH as well as others, and has served on the multimedia team at Western Kentucky University's annual Mountain Workshops. Helped establish and will serve on faculty for the 2011 BSA Photographic Workshops at Philmont, New Mexico. Came to Elon in 2005.

BS - Middle Tennessee State University 

MA - Ohio University

Photojournalism

VIsual Storytelling

Corporate Publishing

iMedia Capstone

iMedia Fly-In (Panama)

Faculty Fellow for Technology 2011, 2012

NPPA, Region Six Associate Chair 2010-present

2007 Summer Fellowship Grant - A Study of Parallels within Visual Ethnography and Journalistic Storytelling - England
 

Member of the National Press Photographers Association, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and the Broadcast Educators Association

Phi Psi Cli Yearbook Advisor

NPPA Student Chapter Advisor

School of Communications Technology Committee

TLT Search Committee

Eagle Scout

2011 Faculty Excellence for Service and Leadership Award in the School of Communications

2010 Broadcast Educators Association Best of Festival Award, Faculty, Interactive Media Category