Marshall

About me

I have had a very rich and varied career. I am a veteran elementary school teacher, radio reporter and news producer, still perform commercial voice-overs on the side, spent six years in the restaurant business and a half a year as a barman in London. I performed my undergraduate work at SUNY Brockport (Go Golden Eagles!) and have my Master's in Teaching from the University of Virginia (Go Hoos!).

Throughout my life I have been in love with AV. It started on the AV squad in elementary school helping teachers with projectors, slides and other devices that befuddled them. I am a lover and performer of music and have a wide range of tastes from opera to the Ramones. I have an almost ideal history with electronics since I have fiddled with amps and pre-amps filled with vacuum tubes, got my start in photography with a Yashika dual-lens reflex, have edited audio tape with a china marker and a razor blade, but have followed the modern era in electronics and always stayed up to date.

I see what I do as something more than selling a product. I truly feel like I've helped people every single day of the five years I've been at Crutchfield. I am as enthusiastic as anyone about the equipment, but I understand that the equipment is merely a tool to go someplace else. This is all about enjoying music, the excitement of film at home, the preservation of life's memories, and so much more.

I have a ten year old daughter who is a pianist. When I am not at work, I am with her, laughing or playing music. We also enjoy cooking together, but never without our chef's toques.