After a stint in the Navy, working on the flight deck of the USS Ranger, traveling all over the world, I went back to school and got a BA in Television and Theater from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. My first gig out of school was in Boston for the Monitor Channel. I was given the opportunity to work as a Lighting Cameraman for the late, great, Bill Greenfield shooting sixteen shows a week in Studio 51. Greenfield taught me how work efficiently without sacrificing his high-quality production values.  The lessons I learned from Bill paved the way for many opportunities to come.

Following those three years in Studio 51, I went back to film school in Rockport, Maine and became fully immersed in my art. It was there that I was exposed to the Steadicam and a whole sub-sect of accomplished filmmakers; Ted Churchill, Theo van de Sande ASC, Bryan Renolds, Rob Draper ACS, Miguel Jimenez to name a few. I took my first Steadicam workshop with fellow operators; Paul Taylor, Brant Fagan and Janice Authur. After a few years of intense practice and play, I studied with Steadicam inventors Garrett Brown and Jerry Holway.

Since then I have had the opportunity to work all over the world with a lot of talented professionals. Currently, I am flying cameras of most formats from 12 to 72 lbs.