EXPERIENCE: 

KXTL-TV Sacramento, California                                   October 2019 - Present

MAIN MORNING ANCHOR   

​· Anchors 4 to 5.5 hours a day

· Extensive field anchoring for Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe

· Innovative reporting/shooting/editing using smartphone

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KSHB-TV Kansas City, Missouri                       August 2015  - September 2019

WEEKEND MORNING ANCHOR                                              

· Pioneered "Live Desk" concept 

· Won Emmy for Multi-Media Journalism

· Built interactive graphics for newscasts   

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KCRA-TV Sacramento, California                       June 2004 - July 2015

REPORTER/FILL-IN ANCHOR
· Compelling coverage of state, regional and city politics
· Extensive coverage of Death Row, including numerous executions
· Continually created movement-oriented, multi-camera live shots
· Excelled at weather related stories, i.e., snow, floods and forest fires
 

WNWO-TV Toledo, Ohio                        September 2001 – June 2004
WEEKEND ANCHOR/REPORTER
· Supervisory and Editorial role for weekend newscasts
· Covered Davis-Besse nuclear reactor failure
· Accomplished Northwest Ohio’s first underwater live shot
 

KOSA-TV Odessa, Texas                           May 1999 – September 2001
MIDDAY ANCHOR/REPORTER
· Supervisory and Editorial role for Midday newscasts

· Weekly franchises: Richard’s Road Trip and The Edge of Sports
 

WABG-TV Greenville, Mississippi                    March 1998 – May 1999
WEEKEND ANCHOR/REPORTER/PRODUCER/ASSIGNMENT EDITOR
· Responsible for editorial content on the weekends
 

PARK CITY TV Park City, Utah         September 1997 – December 1997
EVENING SHOW CREATOR/PRODUCER/ANCHOR/REPORTER
· Designed an hour long daily local news/entertainment show
 

EDUCATION
· University of Utah - B.A. with honors, Broadcast Journalism 
 

SKILLS
· Excellent newsroom leadership and interpersonal communication
· Quickly understands and explains complex issues for viewer

· Go-to person for training and mentoring new reporters

· Helped develop Scripps corporate online journalism course

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ACHIEVEMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
· Board Member, Food Allergy Research Education K.C., 2015-2017 

· Sacramento Press Club Scholarship Committee Member, 2009
· Vail Meadows Therapeutic Riding Center Board (Ohio), 2002-2003
· German American Journalist Exchange, Fall 2000 Fellow (RTNDF)
 

AWARDS

· 3 Emmys: Video Journalist, 2017 & 2019, Sports: single story, 2019

· RTNDA Special News Program: Taste of Tragedy documentary

· Emmy nominated more than a dozen times