he starred as a video crew person and playback operator, with viacom cablevision in san francisco and -- county. from there, he was the access coordinator for city visions, san francisco's public access channel operate by viacom cablevision's for seven years. while at viacom he successfully advocated for the upgrade of the facility, streamlined operations, improve community training and outreach. through his work with the public access channel, he became familiar with the public's need with and the many policy questions and conflicting priorities inherent in local tv programming. during the first gulf war use of the public access played a crucial role in providing the public with information and perspective disregarded by the mainstream media. at the end of 1993 he began working for the san francisco community television corporation, which is just starting to contract to operate san francisco's government channel. with this nonprofit, he took on the role of production supervisor and was involved in planning for management of public access in san francisco. he helped develop plans for