I was born and raised in Columbus. Indiana. Columbus is in the top ten in architecture in the country, hard to believe that a town with under 50,000 people could do that. Anyway, I grew up around art and have always been interested in it. I was scribbling on paper (and walls) at an early age with everything that could leave a mark. When I was not outside, I was inside drawing with my younger brother, Ben. We drew animals, people, cars, robots, action figures, cartoons, anything we could think of. One would think that I would be sick of drawing.

When I got into high school, I excelled in my art classes and took every one available. We were taught many different kinds of ways to create art, but out of all of them I really still enjoyed drawing. My senior year, I talked to my cousin who had similar interests but was already out there working for Warner Bros. as a set designer. He asked me what I really wanted to do. When he told me that you could draw on computers, I was very excited. So, in 1994, I enrolled at Indiana University Bloomington and pursued a career in Studio Art with emphasis on Graphic Design. IU has a great art school, so broad in what you can do. Again, I was finding myself taking every art class that I could. Drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, then Graphic Design. I even received a minor in art history while I was there. When I saw the power of design that one could do on the computer with great programs, I loved it. I was also becoming more interested in technology and computers at the same time. I taught myself the Macintosh operating system and troubleshooting so I could fix my own problems and help others. I found myself helping a lot of people in my design classes with design programs and troubleshooting. To sum it all up, I am here today doing what I feel I have always wanted to do, that is being creative in all media's, and life.