I love traveling, camping and adventures. I like high endurance sports; mountain biking, tactical paintballing and rock climbing. I enjoy being creative through photography, graphic design, digital video editing and website design. I also love working with technical equipment, modern drone technology, solar electricity and renewable energy. I’m constantly involving myself in helping our environmen
t while encouraging others around me to limit their impact. I've eaten mostly organic since 2011 and haven't owned a car for since January 2013. I am trained-certified at Shoreline Amphitheater in stage hand setup registered. I have loaded band equipment, organized and promoted shows at the Catalyst Night Club in Santa Cruz, California. I’ve filmed, edited, directed and produced extreme sports and educational environmental documentaries. I have worked for two TV stations, before he became a self-driven freelance photojournalist. I focus on stories that will benefit humanity or our environment by documenting historic events; hazmat cleanup projects, protest, riots, lightning storms, wildfires, floods, landslides, snowstorms and car accidents. I have been tornado chasing in Oklahoma, covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. I have been through three hurricanes; Gustav in 2008, Isaac in 2013 and Sandy in 2013. I was even in Ghana during the recent Ebola Outbreak. My images have been featured on CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, KSBW, Associated Press, World News (WN), Philippine National News and many others. I have been published in newspapers a combined 30 times, the Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Reno Gazette Journal, The Reno News and Review, the Santa Cruz Good Times. I have been interviewed Anonymous (the international cyber hacking group) as well as KSCO, KTOK and KRXA radio stations. Images that I captured while in the Philippines were used in a music video that went viral thanking the world for their response during the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan. After seeing destruction, death, mass suffering and failed international humanitarian response he got involved in emergency services to make a difference. I spent 8 years studying at Cabrillo College mainly in the medical field, environmental sciences and journalism. I plan on transferring to a UC in the next year. Here are just some of the classes I have taken that makes me who I am. Intro to College: Government, Renewable Energy and Resources, Hazardous Materials1st Responder, Environmental Geology, EMT-Basic and EMT Lab, Red Cross responding to Emergency, Nuclear, Chemical, Biological Responder, Solar Photovoltaic Design, CPR for Health Providers, Sustainable Building & Environment, Special Projects in Journalism, Fire Behavior & Combust, Anthropology Surviving the Future, Communications, Listening, Yoga and Stress Reduction, Edible Landscaping, Hydroponic Food Production, Meteorology, Meteor Laboratory and Physics. I took all of the Red Cross classes to become a disaster relief volunteer. I have also completed the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) course at the Felton Fire Station. I now have over ten years’ experience as a photojournalist while providing relief aid in several third world countries. Last year he started an international company called Advanced Disaster Relief, my latest self-deployed mission was in volunteering in Nepal during the earthquake aftermath, living in the epicenter for a month by myself. I consider myself a hybrid photojournalist, environmentalist, humanitarian and activist. My largest environmental project was organizing a tire removal with 30 volunteers. We removed over 1000 tires that had been deteriorating in the Santa Cruz Redwood Forest for 30 years. I supplement my income through my company product, the International Survival Kit [ISK]. It consists of 40 survival and first aid items packaged in a compact, durable Mylar bag. The ISK is designed to help save lives, alleviate suffering and prevent malnutrition. It was created to be distributed after a disaster and bridge the gap before additional help and resources arrive. Thank you for taking the time to read about me and my projects.
