Professional Background

I started out in the printing industry as a pressman for a company that catered to the high-end agencies in the Boulder/Denver area. The job was a blend of physical & technical demands combined with a hyper-focused commitement to faithfully reproducing the beautiful artwork with which we’d been entrusted. With the incredibly high standards and long hours, I learned the patience and grit it required to produce high-end production art. Through the submersion of printing sophisticated designs everyday, I also what would become the foundation for my understanding of layout, compositional balance, typography, color, and design. In addition, after leaving the pressroom, I was an outside sales representative/estimator/project manager/customer service person where I really enjoyed being the liasson between my customers and our production team.

Inspired by what I’d learned, I went back to school and got my degree in graphic design from the Art Institute of Colorado. I later returned to school for front-end web design (WordPress, Shopify, Slider Revolution, HTML and CSS) and studio photography. As a designer, I’ve designed and produced designs for print, web, social, trade shows and retail. As a photographer, I’ve shot local scenics for magazine ads, and also done quite a bit of product photography. In the past 7 years, I’ve been concurrently doing production design work because I like the fast-pace, the need for strong organization, and the requirement to know and practice numerous skills.

Most recently, I’ve just started to learn and integrate AI into my workflow which, just in a short-time, has been incredibly productive. I’m using Adobe FireFly at the moment because it produces legal artwork, has great capability and dovetails with the Adobe Suite.