My running joke is “Well, I was supposed to be a veterinarian but my mother came up with a better idea.”
My love for journalism began with my love for all things nature, in the countryside of Northern Michigan, growing up in the farmlands of Gladwin County. The following decades have been a whirlwind.
I am currently at KTVQ, working alongside the Montana This Morning family as the producer of both MTM and the statewide MTN noon news. I returned to MTN News in December 2024 after my last venture back to my home state of Michigan, where I was an evening anchor at TV6 for the last three years. The journey has been long but immensely rewarding, as I now enter my 14th (or so) year in broadcast journalism and I am over the moon to be back in Montana for it.
My time in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a feat that I will forever be proud of. I started working at the station in November 2021, moving from Bozeman to Negaunee, MI near the shoreline of Lake Superior. Once there, I served as evening anchor and producer for multiple newscasts alongside an award-winning news team, working through historic winter weather, election cycles and years of breaking news. I was fortunate and blessed enough to be recognized by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters for several accolades, including Best Feature, Best Breaking News Coverage, among others. It was the honor of a lifetime, sitting at the desk for those three years so close to my alma mater, Northern Michigan University.
Prior to joining the TV6 team, I worked several years at MTN News in Bozeman as a senior reporter, evening anchor, and multimedia journalist for KBZK. While working at the station, he anchored alongside Donna Kelley while also leading the helm in the field where he covered a wide range of stories and received several awards. Some of the awards include two E.B. Craney Awards for breaking and hard news coverage, and he was also voted Bozeman’s Best Anchor together with Donna and Chet Layman in 2020 and 2021. I’m a firm believer of “team always comes first.” I was on the team that covered Ted Kaczinski, also known as “The Unabomber,” in 2020, and was the first reporter to interview Bill Sprout, the semi-truck driver who avoided cameras for more than 25 years after hauling the Unabomber’s cabin from Montana to California. I was awarded Bozeman’s Best News Writer of 2022 before returning to Upper Michigan in November 2021.
Before that, I worked at 9&10 News/Fox 32 in Cadillac, Michigan as a news reporter and anchor from May 2014 to April 2018. During my time there, I was recognized with a number of Michigan Association of Broadcaster accolades for his work and attention to community life and events. While thousands of stories were covered, a few notable entries include attending the funeral of Gordie Howe, interviewing “The Great One” Wayne Gretzky (along with NHL greats like Yvan Cournoyer, Guy LaFleur, Scotty Bowman, Chris Chelios and others), and Reverend Jesse Jackson in Detroit during the 2016 Presidential Election (along with many from both pools of candidates). I also served as 9&10’s Michigan Army National Guard beat reporter, covering live-ammunition exercises at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Facility in Crawford and Alpena Counties. I spent several summers and winters with the National Guard, covering Northern Strike and Arctic Eagle, fully embedding with troops and flying in Blackhawk helicopters as they trained in the wilderness of Northern Michigan.
I was also a member of the team that reported on the peak of the Flint Water Crisis, covering the effects in both the communities across Genesee County and animal shelters that battled lead-contaminated water. For the record, I was among the reporter-photojournalist team to first cover a Rainbow Family Gathering “from the inside” in Manistee County in 2015, traveling by way of a potato truck deep into the Manistee National Forest in Wexford County. Before all of this, I worked at WNMU TV13 (Public Eye News, Media Meet) in Marquette, Michigan as a news and sports anchor from January 2010 to April 2014, while working as the sports editor and editor-in-chief at The North Wind independent student newspaper during that time.
Otherwise, I am loving life back in Montana alongside my fiancé, Danica, spending the summers hiking and camping in and around Yellowstone National Park, the Crazy Mountains in Sweet Grass County, and everywhere in between, while spending the winters ice fishing with her brother and her family.
