My Own "Now & Then"

For the past 11 years, I lived in New York City working as a web and television producer and General Manager of Learning Matters, an independent production company that produces reports for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, as well as documentaries for PBS.

I'd moved to New York from Charlotte, NC where for 18 years I was a professional puppeteer, performing across the country and producing puppet shows for both theater and television. The art of puppetry had intrigued me since childhood.

When I was a junior in high school, it was puppetry that helped get my foot in the door of the local CBS affiliated station in Columbia, SC. For the next 6 years, I soaked up all the knowledge I could about how television works while hosting and producing a weekly children's show, "Stanley the Clown," and performing with puppets.

After college, I was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, but was fortunate enough to be assigned as a broadcast specialist for American Forces Korean Network in Seoul.

My first full-time civilian job was in Charlotte, where I spent 11 years in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' instructional television division, writing, producing and hosting dozens of programs, including a nationally distributed children's series on holidays and three historical docudramas.

Now that I've returned to Charlotte, I'm using my 40 years of media experience to create one-of-a-kind videos of the people, places, and events of our lives.