Experienced senior designer brings ideas to life by crafting high-quality, brand-focused projects that inspire and meet budgets and timelines. I have a strong foundation in design and video, film, multimedia, illustration and animation. I identify gaps and create visually compelling solutions that not only transform complex challenges into effective storytelling but also drive significant engagement.
grow. change. experience.
Grow. I grew up in a small town in SC to parents who were anything but your typical southerners. Placed on a steady diet of music, film, and outdoor play, I developed a sense of the world around me, empathy towards others, and a love of art and education. At various point in my life I have studied or taken courses in film and video, graphic design, multimedia, animation, photography, search engine marketing, and user design. I believe that continuing education occurs in two forms-the classes we take and the experiences we create.
Change. After ten years of living in Charleston, SC (a beautiful, overpriced bay city on the East Coast), I decided to take a chance and move to San Francisco, CA (a beautiful, overpriced bay city on the West Coast). Luckily, I loved it—the opportunities to see, hear, and learn from some of the greats in the animation and design world, the world-class entertainment, the amazing hiking and natural environment all around us in the Bay Area, and my beautiful wife and son, whom I have come to know and love.
Change is never easy, and believing that the world can change is a hard thing to do. That is why I have always been involved with nonprofits, either through work or volunteering.
Experience. We each experience our lives in different ways. Every experience I’ve had has helped inform and grow me as a designer, artist, and human being. A few of my favorite experiences include:
Filming a young musician who has written an amazing song for her mother who has developed early stage Alzheimer's.
Taking a workshop from Barbara Bradley, an acclaimed female illustrator just a year before she passed away.
Mowing the lawn by myself in a fenced-in area with three, suspicious, wary red wolves watching me as a volunteer at the Seewee Education Center.
Working with the NCCS and my fellow volunteers in AmeriCorps for a year, the scientists and students at NOAA during an internship, my fellow employees at Blackbaud for a great 8 years, and the fine staff and volunteers at the Alzheimer's Association.
Learning the names of every (not really) Thomas the train character there is thanks to my son.
Spending a week and a half with my wife and her entire east coast family in our tiny 1000 square foot, one bathroom home in San Leandro.
I’m looking forward to many more great (and maybe not-so-great) experiences to come that will continue to shape who I am.