For more on me, read this great interview I did with Gavin’s Underground blog for the Salt Lake City Weekly.
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Growing up, I wanted to be an athlete, but not your usual football or basketball player, I wanted to do something different – rowing, soccer or volleyball. I was always a small kid, however and I came to the realization that my avenue into the sports world would be behind the microphone.
After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in History and Communications, I moved to Washington, D.C. and got a job with National Public Radio. I turned my experience there into a job at the fledgling internet startup America Online.
Seven years later, after producing feature packages on everything from the Olympics to 9/11 to How To Be An Air Guitar God, I decided it was time for a change of scenery and a change of pace, so I packed up my things and my new bride, and we moved to Park City, Utah so that I could return to my childhood dream, and try to make the U.S. National Skeleton team.
In preparation for AOL’s coverage of the 2002 Olympics, I went to Lake Placid for a 5-day skeleton camp. I did so well, that at the conclusion, I was ranked in the top-30 in the nation, and the coaches said I had a chance to make the national team with a little more practice.
To make a long story short, I didn’t make the team, but fell in love with Park City, and my new job working as a reporter and host at the local radio station. It had been over 10 years since I had been behind the mic, but it was like an old friend, and I picked up a number of awards (Utah Broadcasters Association and Society for Professional Journalists) for my feature stories
In 2005, Park City Television came calling, and that’s when I really found my stride. I helped write and record the narration for an Emmy-award winning show on the Endurance 100 mountain bike race. As host and producer of a daily one-hour news & entertainment show, I interviewed everyone from Sen. Orrin Hatch and Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. to Olympians Phil and Steve Mahre, Shaun White and Picabo Street to film stars Emmy Rossum, Patton Oswalt and Wim Wenders (“Wings of Desire”).
I won another Emmy for the documentary “Blessid Union of Souls: I Still Believe” which I wrote and produced, a silver Telly award for our daily Sundance news show IN THE CAN, and I produced all of PCTV’s live film festival coverage, and brought in national music acts like Sara Bareilles, Eric Lewis, Emerson Hart, and dozens more.
What does this all make me? A pretty happy guy. I get to live in a beautiful place, with a wonderful wife, and an amazing little girl – plus I get to create television programming that is unlike anything else on the air, and I get to talk to amazing people – both famous and not.
