Much of my journalism background is in sports. I started in high school, working for the Vallejo Times-Herald and BeniciaNews.com. I went on to major in journalism at Cal State Long Beach and was a freelance reporter for Torrance Daily Breeze. My senior year, I was the sports editor of the university newspaper, the Daily Forty-Niner.
After school, I worked as a sports reporter for the Daily Republic in Fairfield, CA. I started my own soccer Web site in 2009, IntelligentSoccer.com. I started freelancing for Patch in March 2010, covering news and sports for a variety of Patch sites and wrote columns for Benicia Patch.
Starting in November 2011, I was hired by Patch to be its local editor in Clayton. Then, a year later, I switched cities and I'm now the local editor in San Ramon.
Other than journalism, news and sports, I'm also an avid movie watcher and have no trouble digesting television (oh, how I miss "The Wire"). I also love traveling (this is starting to sound like Match.com profile).
Your Beliefs
At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal their beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable.
Politics
I'm a registered Democrat, but, as a journalist, I carefully go through individual issues to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments.
The change to even-year elections will likely save the city more than $200,000, but it would also have council members in office longer than their original terms.
Comics are competing in the Killer Laughs Competition every Thursday night at The Willow in Dublin. (Warning: Video has explicit language and mature subjects.)
The For Pete's Sake! Danville Bike/Kovarus Club Kick Off Ride will take place April 14 with the proceeds going to the Pete Zucker Foundation, which raises awareness of ALS.
Sbranti is being endorsed by outgoing District 16 Assemblymember Joan Buchanan in race that includes Steve Glazer and Newell Arnerich.
Sbranti is being endorsed by outgoing District 16 Assemblymember Joan Buchanan.
Sonnenberg served 30 years with the Foster City Police Department, before retiring as the department's chief in 2004.
Roger Aleman, 18, is facing an assault with a deadly weapon charge, with a gang enhancement.
A 16-year-old was running around a Pleasanton neighborhood with what appeared to be a gun, but police found that the boy was actually holding an airsoft gun.
The event on Saturday, April 13 will celebrate the cultures and traditions that make Dougherty Valley so unique.
Every day at this year fair will feature freestyle motocross.
A day of soccer at Dougherty Valley High on April 20, highlighted by a Stanford-Cal women's soccer match, will raise money for the Challenged Athletes Foundation and support families in need who are still living with cancer.
The street will be reduced to one lane between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. this week.
Matt Tennyson had an assist and the Sharks won in the NHL debut for the 2008 Amador Valley graduate.
San Ramon Police are looking for the people who destroyed Cal High's high jump pit, Cal High athletic director Dave Kravitz said.
Is there a business you would like to see move to Dublin? Tell us in the comments section.
It's not a big space, but something needs to move into the open storefront in Blackhawk? Do you have any ideas?
There's an open storefront in the Crow Canyon Commons shopping center. What do you want to see move in?
Andris Biedrins and Richard Jefferson are coming to speak with campers in the Warriors youth basketball camp.
Many protesters were arrested for blocking the entrance gate to the lab and were released after being cited, according to the Contra Costa Times.
Nobody was injured in the shooting and one arrest has been made in connecting to the incident on Chestnut Street Sunday, according to Livermore police.
