"A native of Washington, D.C., by way of Charleston, SC, I graduated from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, where I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Education. I started my television career at WCIV-TV in Charleston, and then moved to Atlanta, where I worked as an editor and producer for the video public relations firm KEF Media Associates. Since then, I have become an accomplished videographer, producer and business owner. Some of my producing and shooting credits include the tech giant Google, TRU TV, formerly Court TV, TV One, Black Enterprise Television, Telepictures, the NFL, the NCAA, Turner Broadcasting, Associated Press Television and The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change.

I have earned the prestigious Telly and Aegis awards for producing and editing the concept, reality series “Diamonds in the Rough,” a show focusing on the rising rate of homelessness among women. In 2008, I was asked to join TV-One’s production crew to produce the network’s first live broadcast at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. The live broadcast became TV-One’s most watched telecast to date. In 2012, I returned to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, as one of six producers responsible for producing content for the convention’s news hub. Never straying too far from his military roots, I worked with the Dept. of Defense’s Global War on Terrorism, as a media editor for Third Army and a media analyst for the Joint Military Information Support Command located at US Central Command in Tampa, FL. As a media analyst, I was responsible for monitoring and analyzing Middle East and Southwest Asia media outlets and conducting quantitative analysis and briefings as well as determining advertising objectives, and message creation for PSAs being produced in the same region.

In Kabul, Afghanistan, I worked alongside Task Force 41 as a media instructor, teaching Afghanistan journalists how to effectively shoot news stories and manage media content. This is where I h" less...