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I was born an Army brat, the fifth child of seven in La Mesa California in 1968. My father was in the Military so we moved a lot up and down the west coast. My childhood is much to boring to go into except to say it had it's ups and downs.

In 1983 I started working with graphics and hardcopy printing in high school and within 2 years I was supervising a print shop that functioned as the printers for all the nonprofit organizations in a tri-city area. Raised the shops production to such a high level we were able to purchase much needed new equipment, which again increased output. Was awarded the Kiwanis Printer of the Year Award and took Second place in the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) statewide printing competition.

I went on to teach a high school graphics and photography class three periods a day for two years. This class included typesetting, graphics design, layout/paste-up, plate making, printing and the black and white photography.

I’ve taken numerous courses in programming and multimedia, attended Devry, and was accepted to an art school; but most of the things I have learned are self-taught through online tutorials off the Internet and constant self-study. I am a flexible artist, whether you are talking the graphical and visual or the behind the scenes code that makes it all work. I can render any kind of approach to design - minimal to maximal, bright to dark, clean to grungy... and then translate my designs into HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, PERL, MYSQL or whatever it takes to make a design work, hand-coding it or not.

Graphic Design is what I love, from doodling to high-end art for sale in art shows. I also develop websites, from straight forward to flashy, to making people say “wow!” I sit up late at night designing web templates or digital art, just to get it out of my head. Graphic Design is my passion. While most people work with computers, computers work for me, they always have. I have had clients ask for cardboard stand-ups of me because “as long as you're in the room everything works.” I’ve done everything from teaching high school to managing a store in a mall to serving in the army for 7 years with top-secret security clearance while working military intelligence.