Jamie’s career began in Richmond, Virginia. While working on his degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, he worked at all three local network stations. Jamie worked as a production assistant and sports photographer at WTVR, an associate producer at WWBT and a producer trainee at WRIC. He was also a reporter trainee at WRIC, at least for one day. It seems the news director at WRIC didn’t tell the other managers Jamie was to be a producer trainee. So, on his first day at the station, he was sent with a photographer to the state capitol to interview Governor L Douglas Wilder. Something Jamie still considers one of many highlights of his career.

After school Jamie received an offer from WJZ in Baltimore to produce weekends and write for the early evening newscasts. He was later asked to help create and produce the station’s new 5p newscast, but shortly after building the show’s rundown and completing two rehearsals, he received an offer too good to let pass. He was asked to produce the 5p news at WSVN in Miami, FL, one of the most producer driven shops in the country.

Miami is where Jamie’s career really took off. He was called on to produce nightly specials during the OJ Simpson trial. “The People vs Simpson" specials aired at 11pm, after the station's 10pm newscast and were a daily wrap-up of the trial featuring Anchor/Reporter Patrick Fraser and the station’s legal expert Howard Finkelstein.

Later, Jamie was promoted to executive producer of station’s 3-hour morning newscast, “Today in South Florida.”

From Miami, Jamie went on to produce the 5pm News in Los Angeles at KNBC. From there he became dayside EP and then assistant news director. Some of the highlights of his time in LA were producing nightly Olympic specials during the centennial games in Atlanta and the games in Sydney Australia.  Jamie and the team from KNBC won an Emmy for their breaking news coverage of the Olympic Park bombing.  As an NBC O&O in the country’s second largest market, the station had a team of journalists in Atlanta covering the games and were one of the first stations in the country to report on the bombing. Jamie was in the control room leading the station’s breaking news coverage.

He also traveled to Salt Lake City to lead the station’s coverage of the winter games.

Jamie was also "interim news director” at KNBC on 9/11. He says he learned a lot about leadership on that day and during the days that followed and is thankful to have work in such a great newsroom with so many amazing journalists.

Jamie also worked in Dallas at WFAA as an executive producer and helped lead the 10pm news team to a national Edward R Murrow Award for Best Newscast.

His first stint as a news director was in Washington DC at WJLA. From Washington, he moved on to Knoxville TN, where he served as news director at WATE for 12 years. During his tenure, the station was honored with national Murrow Awards for Breaking News Coverage and Video Storytelling.