I teach media production, make things people watch, and tell stories that stick.
I'm a media production educator and content creator, teaching filmmaking, post-production, and content strategy at the college level, and putting that same craft to work on my own shows: three podcasts spanning geek culture, comics, and alumni storytelling, and Teaching Tech, launching soon. MFA. MBA. Over a decade in the classroom and behind the camera, same belief in both rooms: technology is a vehicle, not the destination.
Two rooms: the classroom and the edit bay.
I've spent my career moving between two rooms: the classroom and the edit bay. As an adjunct professor, I teach media production, filmmaking, and content creation — helping students find their own voice with a camera before worrying about which one to buy. Outside the classroom, I put the same philosophy to work on my own shows: three podcasts covering geek culture, comics, and alumni storytelling, and Teaching Tech, arriving soon on YouTube.
The thread connecting all of it started long before any of these shows existed — So You Want to Be a Geek began as an idea back in 2009. I hold an MFA and an MBA, and I'm a licensed drone pilot — three different ways of asking the same question: how do you tell a story people actually want to watch?
"All it takes is one person to take a chance on them, to guide them, to believe in them, until one day, they stand here too." FDU Alumni Award acceptance speech — May 2026
More than one thing, on purpose.
The short version: MFA (Full Sail, class valedictorian), MBA (Dowling College), BA in Film (FDU), and a UAS drone pilot's license. The longer version is that I've spent over a decade in classrooms and edit bays, and I'd rather show you what that looks like than list it.
- ClassroomSenior College Laboratory Technician, CUNY City Tech · Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- CameraProducer/Second Unit Director, UFO Club (Amazon Prime, Tubi) and multiple institutional productions
- MicComing Home, So You Want to Be a Geek, Wizards! — six years on air across three active shows
Three shows, three different rooms.
So You Want to Be a Geek
Geek culture, unpacked — the show that started as an idea back in 2009, now home to the Teaching Tech video playlist and links to the TikTok & Instagram feeds.
Coming Home Podcast
The FDU alumni podcast — homecoming stories, career paths, and the people who came back to give something forward.
Wizards! The Podcast Guide to Comics
400+ episodes and counting, six years of unpacking the medium with the people who make it.
Now on YouTube
A YouTube series about the person behind the gear, playlist lives on the So You Want to Be a Geek channel, with deeper breakdowns of every episode expanding on Substack.
Booking, guest pitches, consulting — start here.
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