Radio Career
Grew up wanting to either be a veterinarian or do voiceovers for cartoons. Infatuated with a Lafayette "RK-142" tape recorder I got for Christmas at age 8, I taped mock news broadcasts, plays, friends and family. It took until age 30 to return to my real calling: radio. Thought I might want to be a Psychologist or therapist after college, then a Filmmaker, which is what I pursued in graduate school. But broadcasting beckoned. I had flirted with radio at age 14 at WBMJ-AM (San Juan PR), acting and reading poetry with a college English class on their weekly "public affairs" show. I also DJed on WERD-AM at Drew University (Madison, NJ) in the mid-70's. In Ann Arbor (Michigan) I worked at the student/community stations, WCBN-FM/WRCN-AM, from 1979 to '85, becoming Chief News Announcer and then General Manager. Also got my first commercial gig at WAAM-AM (Ypsilanti Township), doing news. But my main income was a job as media coordinator at the UM School of Social Work from 1980-85.
I finally got my first full-time radio news job in 1985, at WOOD-AM/FM in Grand Rapids. Two years later, it was on to WFAS-AM/FM in Westchester County (NY), where I was Morning News Anchor, and eventually News Director. Then eight years later (1995) after a year-long stint out of radio, (a Public Relations job), I jumped back in at WHNZ-AM in Tampa Bay (FL). Ran that radio station and ClearChannel's Total Traffic Network until my layoff in late 2006, then studied for a Certificate in Web Design at a local college. I am now running my own website design & photography business: Mr News Media.
I loved radio, but ended up in computer graphics and photography. However I still wouldn't mind doing those cartoon voices...
Photography
I have also been shooting photographs since age 9, working with a Leica and a twin-lens Yashica, then later a Pentax, a "Fujicarex", and a Nikon FM. Spent several years working in my own B & W darkroom, using a classic Durst 606 polycontrast enlarger. Also wrote, directed, shot and edited numerous short films between 1978 and 1985, using the 16mm wind-up Bolex cameras once favored by Stanley Kubrik.
Now I'm on to a Nikon DSLR (D40) with various lenses, a Canon digital point n' shoot (A80), Nikon film scanner (Coolscan V-ED) and Epson flatbed scanner (Perfection 1660). I work with many older prints and slides, digitizing and restoring, and shooting new work. I recently scanned & restored my Dad's World War II photos of Okinawa and Hiroshima, plus many shots I took during a visit there in 1970. Although I consider myself a semi-professional, photography is a satisfying creative outlet which allows enormous artistic self-expression.
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