Lived in La Puente, Baldwin Park and El Monte
until nearly the age of 16. Then stepfather Paul
moved the family to Gilroy (near San Jose).
Education
Graduated from Gilroy High in
1969.
Drafted by the Army in 1971. Served
in Berlin as clerk typist and radio operator.
The Vietnam War was winding down (but they still
made me learn how to shoot a rifle).
Attended Gavilan College from 1973-74.
Graduated from Chaffey College from 1975-76
with AA in Journalism.
Graduated from San
Jose State with a BA in TV-Radio Journalism. I
worked on the school newspaper, as well.
Graduated from UCLA in 1981 with MFA in Film-Television.
Graduated from Nova Southeastern University
(Florida) in 1997 with MS in Computing Technology
in Education.
Employment (Broadcasting/Teaching)
1981-83: Worked at KEZR-FM in
San Jose as a movie reviewer, copy writer, production
tech, and automation operator.
1982-83: Taught
broadcasting at San Jose State.
In 1983,
Brad's best friend asked him to come to Boston to
be his best man. Brad drove cross country and decided
to stay on the east coast.
1984-1987: Taught
in Communication department at William Paterson
College, Wayne, NJ. - While teaching at WPC,
worked part time at WFME-FM in West Orange, NJ,
as a board operator, newscaster/writer, and production
assistant.
In 1987, after WPC decided not
to keep Brad on a tenure track, he and wife Joan
and their six-month old son moved to New Hampshire,
where Brad had taken a position as Assistant Professor
of Mass Communication at Franklin Pierce College.
MonadNet
Corporation, the Monadnock Region's first
Internet service provider. MonadNet consisted
mostly of dialup customers, and Brad was charged
with starting up the Web Services division, to
offer web hosting and domain registration
services. When the company got bought out two
years later, Brad and others were shown the
door. "There's the door, now use it."
Realizing that computers and the Internet --
especially dialup services -- were a growing
need in Keene, Brad started his own company,
WebRyders, which he ran until September 2008,
when he sold his dwindling customer base in
order to pursue other interests. This brings us
full circle.
Since September
2008, Brad has been working as a reporter for
WKBK radio in Keene. He is also working on
another book. His one remaining desire, which he
believes would be a fitting redemption, is to
get back into teaching: broadcast journalism, TV
and radio production, writing, or computing
technology.
