 In 1984 he became the 6pm and 11pm news anchor at the NBC affiliate in Miami, FL, and in 1988 he joined NBC's WRC-TV in Washington DC as a news anchor.In 1982, while at CNN, he became a computer programmer/analyst on a team developing microcomputers for rehabilitation and communications for people with disabilities at the VAMC Rehabilitation R&D Laboratory in Atlanta.Working with Principal Investigator Gary Wynn Kelly, he wrote JoyWriter, an Apple-based program that enabled people with neuromuscular disease and spinal injuries to replace a computer keyboard with a joystick controller.