WOCR On-Air Personality/Host, News & Public Affairs Director – September 2008 – April 2011 References: John Shull, Kelly Modad, Jr. WOCR is Olivet College’s radio station. I started as a contributor to Kelly and Kyle Modad’s MoBro’s radio show to getting a show of my own that first semester and each semester throughout my time at Olivet College. I contributed to WOCR in the following ways: Produced weekly live music show called BottleRocketRadioShow which featured protest/social cause music ranging from the 60’s to the 90’s. Designed and distributed ink pen advertising specialty to promote the show. Posted flyers around campus to promote the show. ProducedRead More →

WTSS.COM | 1997 – 2004 | Niche Social Media CommunityIn 1997, I created my first website, WTSS.com, to encourage Christians to focus more on helping others. At first I built it on Yahoo GeoCities. Later I started using FrontPage and I FTP’d HTML pages to a leased server. I utilized CGI script for chat rooms, and managed volunteers who would greet visitors to keep the site active. In 2011, I sold the domain to Western Tower, which helped a lot in paying for expenses in college. Because I was learning HTML and website design when I built this site, the overall design evolved. Here’s aRead More →

PaleoRadio was a daily weekday 3-hour talk radio show politics, religion and culture with host, Jeremiah Bannister. I teamed up with Jeremiah to revive his talk radio show on WPRR. We were on the air at WPPR December 2011 – April 2013 Accomplishments: Live on-air production in a fast-paced environment Promoting the show to affiliate stations and securing rebroadcast agreement with WRFN-LP Recorded and edited show for rebroadcast on WPRR and WRFN-LP and station podcast using Sony SoundForge Identified, researched and scheduled guests for interviews Prepared questions and background information for interviews Created website for the show using WordPress Wrote and posted show notes content on websiteRead More →

I began GreenActionNews in the Spring of 2013 out of my interest in environmental justice. I developed the website on the model described by Bill Moyer in Doing Democracy, so that the scope of the site is to broadly cover the work of grassroots activists, change agents and policy reformers. I established social media assets, logo, and tagline. I recruited and managed writers from around the world who contributed stories where they lived, including Italy, parts of Africa, Brazil, and parts of the United States, who were paid based on a mix of variables including per article, word count and performance metrics. Examples of myRead More →

In 2004, I created KentCountyStar as the first online-only news publication in the Grand Rapids, MI area, covering local public affairs and small business news. The original design looked a bit like The Drudge Report and was coded in HTML with the FrontPage editing software. I upgraded to using a template service that was set up for news organizations. However, the design was counterintuitive and the template company charged too much for minor changes, so I shelved the project for awhile. In 2007, I discovered WordPress and revived KentCountyStar. In 2016, I renamed it to metroGRnews to better reflect community identity. The site is offline,Read More →