Michael brings more than 20 years of professional broadcast news experience into his Career Technical Education instructing. His credential is in the industry sector Arts, Media and Entertainment (AME) and he uses a wide range of broadcast and journalism formats to train students in professional communication skills with the goal of making them able to compete with their mainstream peers in the broader job market no matter what path they choose. Simultaneously with his media career he has been instructing inside public school classrooms for five years including Juvenile Hall. In many instances he has written and executed course curriculum with great success. His writing centers in memoirs about his unusually transient childhood, his career in local TV news, and his time teaching in San Diego County court schools.