-Staff Photographer: Food For The Poor, Spring 2007 to present. 

-Eddie Adams Barnstorm XIX workshop.

-Internship: Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City, Summer 2006.

-Internship: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Fall 2005.

-Uganda, Rwanda, Summer 2005: Spent 5 weeks shooting documentary images for non-profit organizations including Outside the Dream (www.outsidethedream.org) and Swiss Medicins Sans Frontiers.

-Kentucky Derby, 7 May 2005: shot Kentucky Derby freelance for the Louiville Courier-Journal.

-Churchill Downs Sports Photojournalism Workshop, Spring 2005: Selected to spend three days shooting professional horse racing with top professionals in the field.

-Student lab worker in the WKU photo lab, fall 2003, fall 2004, 2005-2006.

-Internship: Photographer for Charlotte Gazette (Drakes Branch, Va.) June - Aug. 2004.

-Nikon eMotion Sports Workshop, Spring 2004, 2005: small group sessions with Joe McNally, Dave Black, Rick Rickman.

 -Mountain Workshops: Lab Assistant 2002, 2006. Shooting Participant 2003 under photo coach Brian Plonka. Editing Workshop 2004 with Rob Finch.

-Internship: Fort Knox, Kentucky. Photographer with Public Affairs Office, responsible for covering ROTC training for summer of 2002.

2008 Southern Short Course Honorable Mention for Sports Feature picture

2007 62nd College Photographer of the Year Award of Excellence for General News photography

2007 William Randolph Hearst Photojournalism Championship finalist

2007 Hearst Photojournalism Competition 1st place Picture Story

2006 Eddie Adams Barnstorm XIX award winner for outstanding work

2006 Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards, honorable mention for Photo Essay

2006 Work displayed in a permanent photography exhibit, Breathe: A Global Portrait, at Western Kentucky University

2005 Kentucky News Photographers Association, 1st place Pictorial

2005 Grant from Western Kentucky University for work in Uganda

2005 WKU NPPA fall clip contest, 1st place multiple picture package

2005 Society of Professional Journalists, national 1st place winner, General News.

2005 Ernest O. Beal Entrepreneurship Award and Grant for on-site event photography provider

2004 Kentucky Press Association, 1st place general news picture

2003 WKU NPPA: Shootout Nashville 2nd Place, Spring Clip contest 1st Place News Picture 

2002 Kentucky Press Association Awards: 1st Place Picture Essay (staff), 2nd Place Picture Essay, 2nd Place General News Picture

Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky., Graduated Dec. 2006: Photojournalism major/Psychology minor.