presentation design

Custom template designs
Multiple master slide sets
Custom animations
Embedding video, sound, & flash
File size compression
Mac vs. PC compatibility
Print quality for handouts

on-site graphics operation

Hotel & convention center A/V setup
Widescreen graphics
Spyder graphics
Presentation support

web design

HTML
XHTML
DHTML
CSS
PHP
WordPress CMS

software (mac & pc)

Photoshop CS2
Illustrator CS2
Acrobat 8
Dreamweaver MX
Flash 8
Microsoft Office
Keynote
AutoCAD

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where i'm from

I grew up in South Florida... in a Chicago household (I was a Cub fan before I even came out of the womb). It poured rain every summer afternoon like clockwork, and we spray-painted baseball diamonds in the street and waited through rain delays by playing Techmo Bowl on Nintendo (I always picked the Bears). My first true piece of artwork was my doctored whiffleball bat... cut at the top, stuffed with a second bat, and welded back together by a home-made hairspray can blowtorch. It was an absolute thing of beauty.

my professional background

I graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1999, with a degree in Advertising and Public Relations. My design career began in 2000, as a temp in the marketing department of General Growth Properties, on Wacker Drive in dowtown Chicago... in the old Morton Salt building. It was here, where I first met my match: PowerPoint. I developed my skills, helped the department think out of the box, and then moved on to a small multi-media agency north of the river on Ontario Street, named Quicksilver.

Quicksilver was a great starting point into the industry. Unfortunately, after just one year, the market got bent out of shape in 2001, and lay-offs suddenly became a plague. Ever since then, I've been on my own... along with a handful of other designers from QS.

For the next several years, I balanced work within the fine arts along with a freelance design career. Employed by several galleries and museums in Chicago, I had the privilege of handling incredible peices of artwork by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Dale Chihuly, Sol Lewitt, Jenny Holzer and more. At the same time, my roster of freelance clients began to grow. I now spend my days designing work for over 15 marketing agencies and multi-media production companies across the nation.