After a short year living down south, I returned to NYC with the intent of wedging my foot into the door of the film
and music industry, eventually securing a position at DuArt film labs. Two years in - working the midnight shift
on films like Fargo and Ace Ventura - I decided to try and join the land of the living. In my pursuit, I was quickly
seduced by an SSL at a midtown studio - a board very similar to the one I had originally fallen in love with at
Quad only a few years earlier - and began an internship there.

After two weeks, they decided to throw me to the wolves, I assisted on my first session for Sean Penn for the
film The Crossing Guard. Despite my thorough lack of knowledge of a single piece of gear in the room, and
add to that fact that I was literally a walking zombie - still working through the night at DuArt, rushing off to my
internship at 9 am and then with no sleep heading right into the 2 pm Crossing Guard session - somehow I
managed through Penn's music supervisor to get offered a full time position at Michael Levine Music (MLM),
a jingle studio working on ad campaigns for Kit Kat and Kodak and more. I was about as green as they come,
but I was back to being exposed to daylight and ready to learn.

After spending some time at MLM, with what seems to be the natural progression in the industry, I was introduced
to the world of freelance. Many music studios, jingle houses, post houses and production houses later, I found
myself like everyone else these days, downsizing and becoming a one man wrecking crew. Around the start of
2006, I set myself up with a Pro Tools system and got down to the business of self promotion, continuing to mix
films and TV shows, producing and mixing bands, working with ballet companies, and even doing some
composing for film and TV, all from my personal setup.

Of course somewhere in there I still attempt to find time for my original love, continuing to front my own band and
playing drums in a prog band. One day I'll rest, though probably not anytime soon.