Professional Background

My eye and ability for graphic design, surprisingly, took root while performing the roles of a pressman, and later project manager, in the printing industry. Catering to very talented and discerning artists from high-end agencies in the Boulder/Denver area shaped my lens for what makes great commercial art.

Those printing roles demanded technical precision and an unwavering commitment to faithfully reproducing artwork as close to perfect as we could get it. The long hours and high standards taught me patience, grit, and a strong respect for producing quality.

I took my technical understanding for the printing process and married it with my strength for building and maintaining relationships when I accepted the role of outside sales/estimating/project management/customer service. I really enjoyed serving as the liaison between clients my team while implementing, in a new way, all I’d learned.

Building on that foundation, I pursued and earned a degree in graphic design from the Art Institute of Colorado. After being submersed, daily, for years in the work of those very talented agency designers, I was thirsty for knowledge when I started school and I soaked it up like a sponge.

Upon graduating, I worked for a few of my former clients where I learned the basics of print design and corporate design. I later augmented that knowledge by studying front-end web design (WordPress, Shopify, Slider Revolution, HTML, and CSS) and studio photography.

In my design career, I’ve created for print, web, social media, trade shows, and retail, amongst others, and I also worked as a photographer shooting both local scenic and product photography. For the past seven years, I’ve also focused primarily on production design, drawn to its fast pace, organizational demands, and the opportunity to apply a wide range of skills.