BIO

I was born in Athens, GA, in 1982, around the time when REM was establishing themselves in the burgeoning alternative rock scene. As luck would have it, this legendary band were my first session as a recording engineer’s assistant two and a half decades later, after I had graduated from the University of Georgia. I was fortunate enough to have a record-setting football career as a field goal kicker, which was followed by a very brief stint in the NFL.

But by 2006, my athletic career had sadly come to a close, and I was struggling with the lost of identity and what I was going to do next. All I knew was that I loved music and was lucky to be live in a city with a rich indie scene. I met David Barbe at a Glands show and he offered to let me come to his Chase Park Transduction studio and make coffee/take out the trash. I hunkered down next to the console and from 2004-2006, under David’s gracious tutelage, I slowly worked my way into doing my own sessions with bands like Patterson Hood (The Drive-By Truckers), The Whigs, Dead Confederate, Kuroma, Nikki Sudden, and many more.

In 2007, my friends MGMT had been signed to a major record label and were set to go on their first tour in support of their debut album, Oracular Spectacular. We had met through a mutual friend, Hank Sullivant, who had founded the band The Whigs, who I had worked closely with over the years. I spent two years on the road with MGMT as they shot into the stratosphere of popularity and I later recorded the band's sophomore release Congratulations.

In 2013, I moved to Nashville where I resumed my work in music production and got a job as the house engineer at The Bomb Shelter.. The producer and studio owner Andrija Tokic, who is a force of nature, schooled on the wonders of all-analog recording and I quickly had more work than I knew what to do with. During this time, I started my own band called The Middle Tennessee Post Modern Experimental Pop Band, which was a vehicle for his own songs and performance experiments, which culminated in the release of our only full-length album. I also began to teach for the first time at Belmont University where I taught courses on Recording Technology, Live Sound, and Pro Tools.

In this time, I realized that I had a great love for teaching and felt a pull towards academia. So at the suggestion of MGMT’s video production ace Alejandro Crawford, I applied to NYU’s ITP program where I earned a Master's Degree in Interactive Media in 2020. I did a year-long post-doctoral fellowship after I got my degree and started working as a video editor on a YouTube series for the NYU professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway.

Around 2021, Scott’s show morphed into an opportunity at CNN+, which was then abruptly shut down, and I became full-time at CNN proper. I work there as an Editor/Producer in video with a specialty in audio. I also teach as an adjunct professor at NYU’s IMA and IDM programs, teaching courses on web programming and audio hardware hacking, respectively.

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