I was a privileged to be a sportscaster at WVUM from 1981-1985. I served as the Sports Director for a year and a half of this time. During these wonderful years, along with some outstanding fellow students & friends we “called” live on-air some of the greatest sports moments of the 80s Hurricane Sports Era which included TWO Baseball National Championships (82 & 85) and our FIRST Football National Championship (83). We broadcast each-and-every baseball and football game (the basketball program had not been resurrected yet) LIVE to South Florida fans during this special time. We also hosted Coaches Shows, Call-In Sports Talk, and handled the Daily Sports Updates.
In addition to my four years doing sports and some DJ shifts, I worked for WVCG-WYOR, the NBC affiliate in Miami; WNWS in Miami; stringer for AP and UPI; wrote for the Miami Herald; beat reporter for the New York Yankees in spring training, and broadcasted spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos.
My radio career transitioned quickly to the technical side after WVUM. I rebuilt studios for most of the stations where I worked. I worked for South Florida stations WVCG-AM (board-op and assistant engineer), WTMI-FM (announcer and station engineer), and WHYI-FM (contract engineer). I later worked at WEBE-FM, Bridgeport, CT (chief engineer); WYCL-FM, Reading, PA (chief engineer); WRFY-FM, Reading, PA (announcer); WDOK-FM/WRMR-AM, Cleveland (station engineer); WZAK-FM/WZJM-FM/WJMO-AM, Cleveland (chief engineer); WMMS-FM/WHK-AM, Cleveland (chief engineer). I wrote for broadcast trade publications beginning at UM, and was hired as the editor of Radio magazine from 1997 to 2014. I am an active member and Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, having served as president from 2005-2007. I was hired as communications director in 2015. Outside of broadcasting, I play in the American Legion Band of Greater Kansas City and lead a German band called the Happy Wanderers.
