My humble/nerdy beginnings started with drawing pictures with Microsoft Paintbrush while my parents went grocery shopping at Sam's Club. I also enjoyed spending countless hours honing my Nintendo Mario Paint abilities. Who would have thought that one day those skills would come in handy? Nerdier yet, I admit to creating ASCII art for a local BBS in my mass amounts of spare time. That of course, was a long time ago... at a simpler time when a 2 GB hard drive was huge!

Moving on to High School in 1994 - I started taking computer tech courses and got to use the very first versions of Photoshop & Illustrator on some state-of-the-art Macs. I then went to the University of Central Florida to pursue a BA degree in Art/Digital Media, and the rest is history!