Praying Mantis on a Rail. Summer 2011- I've been a graphic designer/multimedia developer for twelve years. I began as a Multimedia Specialist/Animator at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in 1999. I held a full-time position while I worked to complete my degree part-time. I was responsible for illustration, animation, and graphic design. In 2002 I came to the Pennsylvania State University, where I currently hold the position of Multimedia Specialist. I've had the fortunate opportunity to expand my skill set to include video production and web development.
Design, illustration, and multimedia work has ranged in purpose, spanning the gamut of recruiting, marketing, department and event advertising, informational graphics, instructional and online course content, trade show and museum display, and branding and identity.
Freelance work has continued nearly as long as my career in academia. I've worked with clients to create branding and identity, package design, flash animation and design, web development, various forms of print collateral, technical video development, and video production assistance.
More personally, I can't remember a time when I wasn't stimulated by the visual. My mother dubbed me an 'artist' at the age of five; my high-school senior class voted me "Most Artistic" because I drew cartoons and hung them in my friend's lockers; and a college professor took one look at my partially-complete illustration of a gazelle and said, "You're gonna get an A on that. You know that don't you?"
In my career, nothing's changed. I still seek to create high-quality visual media that exceeds expectations. The process varies, the media varies, the ideas are different, but the result is the same - visual material that evokes a reaction and communicates a concept. I do this primarily through graphic design, illustration, photography, video, and perhaps a sixty-foot-long black slate wall. How I get there may be run-of-the-mill, or completely unorthodox. It may be a combo of both. In the end all I ask is that the client or the viewer are satisfied with what they see.
