When WFTS became an ABC affiliate in 1994, the call went out across the country for anchors, reporters, producers, photographers and technicians who love news. I was lucky enough to hear the call and smart enough to answer. Today, I still work with the best news professionals in the Bay Area.

My career path to Tampa Bay began in the "other Bay Area"… San Francisco, where I grew up. I graduated with a business degree just in time to realize that business didn't interest me. Broadcast news did. I returned to school to study journalism and served an internship at KPIX Television. The first opportunity to be a reporter came from the NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas. One of my first big assignments at KXAN-TV was to go back to San Francisco and report on the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake that halted the World Series and shook the Bay Area.

Seattle, Washington was the next stop. Working for KING-Television as reporter and weekend anchor, I was sent to file reports from Cuba after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to Iraq where I covered the plight of the Kurdish refugees forced into the mountains by Saddam Hussein. A series of reports on a prosthetic clinic in Hanoi, Vietnam won me a regional Emmy Award. The kids broke the wings off the little statuette about a week after I took it home, but that's what super glue is for. Tampa Bay is now home for me, my wife, son, daughter and year-old Airedale Terrier, "Archie."

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