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, now on YouTube. 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, now 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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