Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1505029
Q: Let's start with learning a bit about you and how your career began. It's all who you know. My dad was a career man at CBS, and in the early '80s said he could get me work in Rams pre-season football. It just wouldn't be paid work. Immediately, I was on my way to Anaheim Stadium. I started out with the intention of being a camera operator, and it was a fluke that I was assigned to the sound department. Steve Kibbons was mixing, and Bob Tully was the A2. A few weeks after I started, Bob told me they needed an A2 at Video Tape Enterprises (VTE). He pitched me to them with "I know this kid who doesn't know anything, but he'll work hard." They took a chance on me, and I was hired to work a Dodgers game with Carolyn Bowden, who was mixing. She told me to go set up the booth, but I was so green I didn't know what she was talking about. Carolyn took me under her wing and walked me over and showed me how to set up a booth and taught me how to be an A2. Working with them and building connections through my start with them has kept me working ever since. Q: Are you a member of any other unions? In addition to being a Local 695 member, I am also a longtime card-carrying member of IBEW and NABET. The network the game airs on dictates which union the work falls under. If given a choice, I choose to work under 695 as our Local provides the best benefits of the three. Q: What has been the bulk of your work? When I was 19, I mixed my first show. I am now 59, so it's