What I'm Doing These Days
Product Design
My current title is "Product Designer" at a fortune 500. My focus is on user centered visual design for ecommerce.
Leisure
I enjoy video games but I'm no couch potato. I've run the Chicago Marathon three times. The lakefront is my back yard.
Growth
I take on regular personal projects to quench my creative thirst. My notebooks are punctuated by impromptu sketches and ideas.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
School of Art and Design (Class of 2007), University of Illinois at Chicago
Courses
- Animation
- Art History I, II
- Color Theory
- Computer Graphics
- Digital Media
- Drawing I, II, III
- Graphic Design I, II, III, IV, V
- History of Design I, II
- Industrial Design I
- Photography I
- Sculpture I
- Time-Based Visual Art
- Typography I, II
- Video I, II
- English Composition I, II
- Human Communication
- Japanese I, II
- Mexican Studies
- World Cultures
- Professional Practice
- Independent Study
- Design Colloquium
- Graphic Design Thesis
Way Back
I started my journey in graphic design back in college, before smartphones were a thing (anyone remember the Motorola Razr V3? I never had one but thought they were the coolest thing ever). My first exposure to computer graphics was actually way back on something that resembled a Power Macintosh 5200 LC in elementary school with ClarisDraw, but my memory is a little fuzzy.
Workbench
I am OS agnostic and feel comfortable working in Windows or macOS. I own a custom built Windows PC and have been building my own PCs for years. I recently purchased a used Macbook Pro from 2012 and swapped out the spinning disk for a fast SSD, maxed out the RAM, and replaced the optical drive with a spacious hard disk.
Custom Build Desktop PC
- Windows 10 Pro
- AMD FX-6300 6-core 3.5Ghz
- 16GB RAM
- 512GB SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB
- EVGA Supernova 750 G2 PSU
- Raijintek Styx Classic Red Case
Macbook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
- macOS Mojave
- Intel Core i5 2.5GHz
- 16GB RAM
- 256GB SSD
- 2TB HDD in Optical Drive Bay
- Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536MB