First I would like to welcome you to my website and thank you for taking the time to look over my portfolio of work. This website it's self is a showcase of things I can do. In these web pages I'll be showing different examples of techniques that can be applied to web pages. I'm always changes or adding new techniques to my web pages as I learn new things. Please enjoy!

I've started a new direction in my professional life leaving a work background of outside sales and marketing to earning a degree in Graphic Communication and a second area of Web Graphics. This was after losing my job due to downsizing. Going back to school was a great experience in many ways, one was it kindled my love of photography and I started a new career. It's always great to turn something you love into a career; that is what I'm doing with my graphic design degree. I've always loved creating things in all different kinds of mediums. I enjoy the challenge of creating a brochure, newsletter, poster or designing and keeping up a website and everything in between. I'm always going on line for tutorial on new ways of doing thing in the field of Graphics. In our field it's always changing so you need to keep up on things or else you will fall behind the times.

In my personal life I'm married. We live on an acreage in the heartland of our country in the small community of Anamosa, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I believe in giving back to your community so over the years I've done volunteer work as: a 4-H leader, served on Jones County Youth Council for 4-H for 3 years, soup kitchens, Variety Club, and a Docent for the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.

Equipment I use to create with: In cameras - Digital Nikon D7000, Minolta film, and Cannon Rebel film / Computers both PC and MAC / Scanner - Epson V500 /Plotters - Roland / Printers - Epson R1900, Okidata, Wide format -Roland, Xerox, Ricoh, Canon and Konica (solvent based).

Programs I use to create with: Adobe CS4,CS5, and Cloud (PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and DreamWeaver), lightroom, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access), and Flexisign.

Acheivements:
Member of Phi Theta Kappa - Honor Society
Photograhy Show at Kirkwood Community College 2010 & 2013
Earned Acheivement Award for "Outstanding Contribution"
Photography Contest:
Photography Forum Magazine and Nikon - Finalist for "Best of College Photography 2010"
Photography Forum Magazine and Sigma - Finalist for "Best of Photography 2010"
IPA (International Photograhy Awards) two Photos Honorable Mention 2010

Some of my interest are: Photography, Gardening, Hiking, Reading, Puzzles, Art Work, and Crafts.