In Hollywood at ABC-TV, he progressed from film editor, film director, producer, to executive producer.  While at KABC-TV he developed new programming for the Los Angeles station.  This resulted in a highly successful, 104 episode variety series.  During 1977 he went to the Osmond Television Studio in Utah to become associate producer on the “Donny and Marie Show.” In Utah, he taught “The History of Television & Production” to Brigham Young University students.

Returning to Studio City California, he established and operated a post production video editing studio from 1980 to 1999. With the success of his best selling book “A Friend of Bill’s” he became the recipient of the prestigious Barnes & Noble “Writers Harvest Days” award. His book has been accepted by the Library of the (NCADI) National Clearing-house for Alcohol and Drug Information.

He has been a Featured presenter at the BAACUS convention Boulder, Colorado - APCA convention Atlanta, Georgia, Miami Dade Community College, Florida - Reinhardt College, Georgia, Alcohol & Other Drugs Awareness Hour, the University of Hanover at Hanover, Indiana and the Awareness Hour at the Betty Ford Center, Rancho Mirage, California.

In July of 2000 Bill assumed the newly created position of Program Coordinator at a residential/sober living Recovery Center that has been established more than forty years. He implemented the successful Aftercare program starting with a group of twelve members which has increased to nine facilitators and more than ninety residents from primary care and surrounding communities attending. He co-authored the guidelines for the Family Program and facilitated that group of more than twenty parents and significant others each Wednesday. He is a grant writer and received an award of first place from the Resource Center in Riverside, CA. He developed a Children’s Enrichment Program in collaboration with Jerry Moe, National Director for Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center. This program is for children of Alcoholics from seven to twelve who are at high risk to addiction due to their genetic connection to parents with addictions.

Bill is the President and Chairman of the Board of COAAR, a non-profit corporation to educate children of Alcoholics regarding the high risk involved with living in a home where addiction is present.

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