He earned a bachelor's degree in Communications Studies at a university in Iowa. This undergraduate degree covered courses in television, radio, journalism and general communications. After college, he got a job at a local radio station and began to learn about broadcasting in the real world. He returned to school to pursue a degree in meteorology and continued to work at a radio station. Radio gave him experiences that would later transfer to television. Eventually he began doing weekend weather on the air at a television station. Working in a career like this requires knowledge of science and weather as well as television broadcasting. This meteorologist says, "I love my job. I get to stand there and talk about the weather; it's great."