I'm a North Texas radio veteran who got my start as a nighttime jazz host and promotions director at the University of North Texas campus station, KNTU 88.1 FM. Following a postgraduate six-month frolic in the UK, I joined Traffic Patrol Broadcasting/Metro Networks and reported traffic for a number of DFW stations, most notably 1310 AM “The Ticket,” whose fans still delight in the “stick it up your tailpipe” tagline.
In the fall of 1999, I joined the Dallas-based NPR affiliate, KERA 90.1 as part-time weekend air talent and moved into the position of producer for the evening talk show, becoming a full-time staff member in April 2000. My duties would go on to include midday announcer and technical director for the Glenn Mitchell Show and Think with Krys Boyd, and producer/voice of the Art & Seek calendar.
Ten years later, I was a key player in the inception, planning, and implementation team for KXT 91.7, helping to launch the music discovery station in November of 2009. As the station's longtime Music Director, I worked with KXT's program directors to craft and diversify the overall sound of the station, furthered the station's mission in showcasing North Texas musicians, and helped champion and break new artists like Leon Bridges, Portugal.The Man, Danielle Ponder, Wet Leg, Abraham Alexander, Joe P, and Jack Barksdale. I contributed to the creation of New Music Monday, interviewed a wide range of artists like Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Lucinda Williams, The Violent Femmes, Janelle Monae, and Fontaines D.C., wrote features for the KXT website, and raised funds during member campaigns. Along with my top-notch curatorial skills and programming duties, which earned me the honor of FMQB's 2022 NonComm MD of the Year, I played a major role in putting KXT on the map as a tastemaker, and one of the most listened to Triple A stations in the country.
My first post-radio freelance project was a commissioned 11-hour time-trip Spotify playlist curated for the Longhorn Ballroom's spring 2023 reopening. In February 2023, I joined Wicked Apple Media to research, write, and produce a companion podcast for a planned feature film about the 1976 Cullen Davis murders that took place in my hometown of Fort Worth. I also produced and edited the Wicked Apple podcasts Jackalope Tales, Autism Unplugged, Trip Tease, People Pursuing Passions, and The FlipFlop Experience, handled press releases, and booked artists for Jack Ruby's.
New gig announcement coming soon but in the meantime, I'm forever open to freelance voiceover work, freelance writing gigs, tons of travel, and anything music-related you can throw my way.