I was born in Roseburg Oregon. A small town that if you were driving to California, I'm sure you've driven through. I've lived primarily in Oregon my whole life, except for a small stint where I lived in Pennsylvania. Moved up to Portland (Oregon), for school, where I attended the Art Institute. And after three years I obtained my Bachelors of Science in Computer Animation.

After graduation, I continued working the same day job I had for the 3 years I attended school. I got a couple of contract jobs here and there, but nothing contiguous. After about a year I got out of my day job and started doing contract work full time. I worked for a company called Stardust Interactive and Adherion for a while doing 3D, 2D, web design, pretty much what ever they've needed. Both company's were small and independant so I was lead art guy, and had plenty to do.

After doing stuff for them for a couple years, I did a little contract work at Liquid Development (an outsource company for game assets), and I did some modeling, animation, and effects work. After Liquid I started doing contract / full-time work for a starter company called WakeKite. After a stressful year in '06 the product finally got picked up by HO Hyperlite. That's just the jist of the WakeKite story though, I don't want it to sound like everything just fell into our laps.

More recently I was working for Banfield (the pet hospital), in their main offices. My duties were the usual cup o' tea, for me anyway. I was creating art, and making a bunch of mini Flash apps for their in-house training tool the BLC. After they saw what I was capable of, I was given a lot of leeway on projects which enabled me to try some new things.

Idealy some day I hope to find myself working for a studio such as Dreamworks or a studio doing work on high-end TV shows, such as Battlestar Gallactica or Stargate for example. As far as my life, I'd like to build my own house, maybe get married (maybe not). But what I think it really comes down to in the long run, is that I don't want to be stuck in a job that I hate. I want to wake up in the morning and be happy about what I've got to do during the day, contribute in some way, leave a mark. And if I do that through my work, that'd be great.