I have a long record of writing compelling narrative investigations to expose practices that hurt people and waste money. My stories captivate readers and routinely prompt reforms.

I contributed a Hunterbrook investigation that showed how a major medical device company sold a harmful product, and we exposed a national medical imaging chain. In spring 2026, I’m teaching data journalism to investigative journalism master’s students at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

I served in a national role with the USA Today Network as an AI Journalist, developing tools to help reporters across the country. My tools were inspired by the methodical investigative reporting approach I tested with peers in talks at NICAR and IRE, including a public meeting scraper launched in 22 states.

For The Arizona Republic, I found a lane investigating healthcare. I told the tale of Dr. Scott Brannan’s rise from a trailer home to med school, from prison to national prominence with a chain of clinics repeatedly accused of prioritizing profit and hurting patients. Our investigation was quoted in a U.S. Department of Justice civil complaint against the company. After our investigation, the company was cut off from Medicare and declared bankruptcy.

I exposed Arizona’s hidden doctor misconduct and built an app to fill the gap for patients. I exposed the state medical board’s mishandling of doctor sexual misconduct, prompting impact before publication and promptly afterward.

I came to Phoenix from the USA Today Network in New Jersey, a family of Gannett daily newspapers including the Asbury Park Press and The Record (Bergen County). In 2020, I partnered with ProPublica as part of their Local Reporting Network. We showed how New Jersey cops avoid accountability and profit from police unions, including more than $400,000 in unlawful sick time payments.

For the Asbury Park Press, I produced investigative reporting that won national awards and prompted changes including: restrictions on deadly police car chases, a law stopping bad cops from quietly switching jobs, and New Jersey moving to license cops. We prompted mandatory random drug testing at all police departments, an “early warning system,” help for police recruit physical fitness, an improved process for making disclosures about troubled cops in state prosecutions, and a statewide policy on tracking troubled cops.

My investigative reporting has long been bolstered by data analysis and award-winning video production.

I’m eager to pay forward the great advice I’ve gotten along the way to mentees and students. I’ve talked to students at Harvard Summer School, Arizona State University, The University of Texas at Austin, The College of New Jersey, Kean University, William Paterson University, Stockton University, and Brookdale Community College.

Data analysis

I’ve taught colleagues on Excel, and I’m proficient with SQL, R, and Python. I earned a master’s degree in data analytics from Georgia Tech.

I’ve used those skills to build applications to help other reporters, like my tool to monitor public meetings and an application to convert story text into a fact checking template.

In my own reporting, I used Python to reveal New Jersey and Newark led the nation for racial disparity in police car chase deaths, and to analyze Medicare billing data to spot the outlier ranking of doctors at Modern Vascular.

I fought for data across two New Jersey governor’s administrations and used SQL to identify scores of cops who had previously been fired from public safety jobs. I also called every department involved and found flaws in the records.

I used SQL to produce a comprehensive watchdog piece on convicts collecting state pensions, including one who was in prison, prompting the state to stop his payments.

Narrative writing

My investigation of Modern Vascular, “Blood and Money,” was chosen as a runner up in the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference’s Best American Newspaper Narrative contest, featured in volume 11 of The Best American Newspaper Narratives.

I wrote Long Fall, a prize-winning three-part narrative series on a New York Stock Exchange broker who lost his fortune, ran a $20 million Ponzi scheme, and robbed a bank. I conducted an exhaustive series of prison interviews, corroborating key details through court records, experts, investigators, family members, and victims.

Multimedia

My video on a man beaten by police after a car crash won a National Headliner award.

I produced a video on a father who died saving boys at a beach, which won first place in the 2016 New Jersey Press Association awards.