Pat Nagel has resided and worked in the Joplin area for most of his life. Pat attended Missouri Southern State College, in Joplin studying Mass Communications before working as a news photographer in the news departments of KSNF-TV and KOAM-TV. His work has been shown on CBS, NBC, CNN and MTV. After his career in TV news, Pat has done award winning creative work in the advertising field with video production, 3D animation, website design and MPEG compression technology .