40+ years and counting…

Since I want to help you tell your story, let me tell you mine.

While studying Music Education at Lyon College, I spent a summer as the morning DJ for the college radio station, KGED FM 88.1. That infected me with the radio bug, which led to a career in broadcasting.

I started my career at WEZI-FM in Memphis, which later became WGKX-FM.

The next stop was a move down the dial to work with legendary Memphian, Sam Phillips at WLVS-FM 94.3 (… yes, that Sam Phillips). WLVS had a sister station, WWEE-AM 1430, where I became the Operations Director and Morning Drive Host to help move the station from a Talk/Sports format to Adult Contemporary.

The next chapter in the story is a move to Nashville in 1986 to work for WEZI-FM 92.9.

This was when I also began doing freelance voice work as a voice actor for the station commercials and for a few production houses in Nashville: Spotland, Admark, Film House, and more.

I became one of the “on call” voices for Comdata’s “Super Driver” and provided narrations for musicals by Lillenas, LifeWay, Allen House Productions, Summit Learning Systems (that included ADT and Summit). I also voiced commercials for The Patton Agency. Live narrations included multiple musicals, cantatas, and plays for local churches and hosting station events like the 1992 Nashville Christmas Tree lighting and concerts by Tony Bennett, Acoustic Alchemy, and others.

In 1993, the story took a twist when Metro Networks opened up an office in Nashville.

Metro Networks was the largest traffic reporting company in the world at the time, and I became the Director of Operations for the Nashville Market. I grew the network from nine radio stations to later include 33 radio stations and four television stations. I was responsible for hiring and training a staff of 20 traffic reporters and news anchors. During this time, my voice was heard on every station, radio and tv, in the Nashville market that did live traffic reports.

The year 2004 saw another page turned when I left broadcasting and joined the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in an effort to launch the Tennessee 5-1-1 Traffic and Travel Information System (TN511).

Since 2006, I have been the voice behind TN511 telephone system and the 24 Twitter pages. I retired from TDOT in 2021 and am now diving into building my voice talent business head first.

The best part of the whole story though is family. My wife Michele and I have two children and one grandchild: Daniel and his wife Lauren along with their son Strider, and Holly and her husband Elliott.