Thanks for stopping by and visiting my website! There is a great deal of material here spanning many years of my diverse career in the digital realm. As you will see, I wear many different hats depending on what the needs of a particular project demand. As this is the "About Me" section read on to learn more...

I am a California native who was transplanted to Murray, KY (a small town in the southwest corner of the state) at age 4. My father also wore many hats; from educator, to scholar, to entertainer, to historian. Much of my childhood was spent traveling the eastern part of the country with my parents for these interests.

When I was 10, our family purchased the local AM/FM radio stations. We all worked there in one fashion or another and I got a pretty thorough education on how a radio station works. I also had my broadcast "ticket" at age 11, which was pretty cool.

Given the fact that my father had gone to and worked for many years at USC, the tug to return to my home here in Southern California was very strong. After graduating high school, I was accepted to the film production program at USC as a freshman.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but as with most kids my age, Star Wars had made an impact on me. Also, as an only child, I would while away a great deal of time watching old movies on TV as well as going to lots of movies by myself. As a kid born at the beginning of the personal computer age, and the videogame era, I really hoped that somewhere all these interests could meet.

My senior year at SC, my parents bought me an early graduation present of an Amiga. I was taking the only class that the film school offered on computer animation at the time, and we would spend many class periods studying the works being done present-day. Most of these were made on computers that were the size of a walk-in refrigerator. To my amazement, there was a software package on the Amiga that would allow me to dip my toe in. It was called Sculpt 3D and I was hooked!

I took all that I had learned about filmmaking at school and started to apply that to the 3D world. Three years later, Newtek introduced the VideoToaster for the Amiga, which had a fantastic 3D program in it called Lightwave. I started doing little flying logo projects here and there, eventually starting a company with some fellow alums from SC called Visual Purple. Sadly the business wasn't making the quick buck that these starry eyed guys had hoped it would, so they abandoned the venture with haste, leaving me to forge on.

Through my work, I had met Alan Hastings, the creator of Lightwave. He and Newtek were working closely with Ron Thornton, who was doing the VFX for a new pilot movie, Babylon 5, entirely in Lightwave. Unfortunately our schedules could not mesh for the pilot, but a year later he hired me to work on Viper, which then segued into the first season of Babylon 5.

After the first season of B5, I worked on many different little projects (most are on this site). Ultimately, while I was working on Space: Above and Beyond, I got a call from Ed Verreaux to come work for him on the film Contact. This moved me from VFX to the Art Department in the capacity as a Concept Illustrator. From there on it has been an amazing adventure of being paid to learn and work with many of the people who made the films that inspired me to want to work in this business in the first place - a truly humbling feeling.

In addition to the feature film and TV work, I also work on product design and do agency work for film and game promotional material, including pioneering in the creation moving covers and ads for point of sale displays and digital publishing. I have also branched out into doing photo real product shots and animation. I designed a complete CGI workflow and pipeline for Guthy-Renker and all their sub-brands that also carries over into their infomercials, giving a complete continuity of product look and feel across all mediums.

It is amazing to me how the technology has grown to broaden the scope of tools that we have available to us to help tell stories. I am very lucky to be able to do this and always eager for the challenge of the next gig. Thanks for reading all this and once again, enjoy the site!