I've spent more than two decades working at the world's top news organization and producing multi-format content for a global audience.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chief video journalist     NASHVILLE, TENN.     2023-PRESENT

_ Leads video coverage for a seven-state region, including making daily decisions on video plans.

_ Manages multi-format enterprise reporting projects with text, video and photo journalists in the region.

_ Shoots and edits video packages.

_ Participated in AP's award-winning "Lethal Restraint" series, researching and reporting on deaths during police arrests and partnering with and appearing on PBS "Frontline."

The ASSOCIATED PRESS

Video Journalist/PRODUCER     NASHVILLE, TENN.     2013-2023

- Shoots and edits video packages on topics including environment, entertainment, breaking news, race, military and health. Travels nationally, internationally to cover news for the AP.

- Writes investigative series, features, profiles, trend stories, obituaries, breaking news and scripts for video packages.

- Produces and edits red carpet coverage.

- Writes entertainment stories ranging from album features, profiles, trend stories, obituaries, breaking entertainment news and awards show coverage for national and international print clients.

- Shoots behind-the-scenes footage of artists during festival performances and music video shoots.

- Hires and coordinates freelance employees, edits weekly music reviews and news items

- Been interviewed on CNBC's "The News with Shepard Smith," PRI's "The Takeaway" and the Black News Channel

military Journalist                NASHVILLE, Tenn.                     2005-2013

- Covered Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and surrounding community of veterans and their families in Tennessee and Kentucky. 

- Wrote extensively on health care issues unique to Iraq and Afghanistan, such as traumatic brain injury, severe injury treatment and recovery, suicide and psychological trauma. 

- Completed two embedded reporting trips to Afghanistan in 2011 and 2013 to report on combat operations, training of Afghan military and police, and health care treatment of wounded soldiers overseas. 

- Produced enterprise, spot and breaking news coverage during embedded trips, and wrote a first person account for the Associated Press Facebook page. Covered troop reaction in Afghanistan to the death of Osama bin Laden.