He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Media Arts from the City University of New York. For over 20 years he has worked for national news programs and PBS documentary programs as a sound engineer and director of photography. He has won an Academy Award for his work in broadcast news after 9/11 and most recently a Peabody Award. His film credits include Lost Echo, a prize-winning feature short which was the first Persian-American film to be screened at the Asian Cinevision Festival in New York.