I actually got my first chance to be a guest DJ and to do a radio commercial in 1982 at the age of 10 at WWLS in Norman, Oklahoma, where my mother worked in sales at the time. When I moved to Indiana in 1986, I started calling DJs at radio stations. I then started doing phone skits for them. This lead to me doing scripts for a video puppet series called, "The Great Impostures." In 1989, A bit called, "Good Sales With Doctor Ruthless," was produced for an AT&T sales convention in Las Vegas. It went onto an international video competition in Dallas, TX, and won an international silver award in the Entertainment category. I did commercials in the 90's and 2000's for GTE, Pizza Hut, and The Fort Wayne Home and Garden Show, among others. I worked briefly in radio in Dayton Ohio in 1997 at WGTZ doing DJ shifts as well as voice bits for morning shows and station and commercial projects. I've most recently done voice-over for WAWK, The Hawk, In Kendallville, Indiana. In April, 2013, I placed second in the Mad Dog Sound-Alike Contest on Sirius XM Radio for my impersonation of sports talkshow host Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo. In 2014, I was the voice of 2 penguins as part of a holiday window display at the Embassy Theater in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Took various choir and band music classes throughout junior high and high school. Graduated from high school from Indiana School for the Blind in 1991. Took 2 years of radio and TV at Jay Everette Light Career center from 1989-1991. Placed in top 5 in Indiana State High School Broadcasters Competition in 1991. Attended voice-over seminar in 2008 at Indiana Purdue fort Wayne.
Dell laptop computer, Mbox interface, Oktava MK-319 condenser microphone, Audacity recording software.
As lead singer and drummer in a band from 1991 to 1995. We won several local and state competitions and even passed auditions for the Charlie Daniels Talent Round-Up on what was then TNN, the Nashville Network. Band broke up before shows would have been produced. Volunteered at local AM station, WPDJ, In Huntington Indiana in 1994-95 doing 2 weekly music shows and running board for network programming. Have also done various work as karaoke host, musicle entertainer public speaker and auctioneer.