I grew up in Bristol, Tennessee -- a beautiful place, known                               as the "Birthplace of Country Music" because the first Country Music was recorded there in the 1920s.  Many of the singers discovered there were my great-grandfather's music students.  A journeyman music teacher in the 1800s, he and his partner taught young people how to sight-read sheet music using Solfège.  
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My family has always been connected with music, and I literally grew up around television stations and recording studios in Tennessee.  There I was surrounded by musicians who taught me the amount of work that goes into recording studio performances.   

I had a fascination with television sound, and at 29, I joined the Sound Department of Turner Production at TBS/CNN in Atlanta, where we developed techniques for the first stereo television shows.  

In 1987, I won an Emmy there for Sound Mixing.

Ted Turner bought the MGM Film Studio and its vast film library.   I found myself developing the MGM Film Library database system, replacing an antiquated IBM mainframe system.  

That project got me recruited to California, where I spent three years developing a stock options accounting system for traders at the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco.   We had one of the first dot-com registrations, years before the creation of the Web.
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I landed the Core Network Architect position at "Entertainment Digital Network," created at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Ranch. I connected hundreds of motion picture production facilities, recording studios, post-production houses, and record mastering labs, for real-time, interactive performance recording and remote post-production. During that time, I wired many celebrity homes, screening rooms, and producer's homes, and together with record producer Phil Ramone, created the network for Frank Sinatra's last two "Duets" albums - his biggest sellers ever.
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In 2000, NBC purchased KNTV Television here, and I joined NBC News as a field engineer and uplink truck operator.  For 8 years and 450,000 miles of travel, I provided field engineering for 4000 live satellite shots.

In 2008 I retired from NBC, and in my basement, I wrote the DSP code and perfected Penteo®, my process for conversion of stereo music to 5.1 surround sound. I personally mixed 5.1 versions of music for many feature films, including "Watchmen," "Inglorious Basterds," "Iron Man II," and Penteo is now the industry standard for upconversion.

in 2015 I joined KRON4 Television, where I currently work on new projects.  In my spare time, I created regroove.audio, an original method for restoring the audio spectrum and eliminating noise on analog masters.

Every single branch of my ancestry dates back to 1600's New England, starting with Thomas Mayhew, my 9th Great-Grandfather, who established Martha's Vineyard.  Later he sold Nantucket to Tristram Coffin, my 10th Great Grandfather, for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. And yes, I have a Mayflower ancestor, Richard Warren, yet another 10th Great Grandfather.