I wanted to be an animator.
Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Friz Freleng — those were my people. Enrolled at UNC thinking I’d spend four years drawing cartoon characters. Turns out they didn’t have an animation program. What they had was Graphic Design, and honestly? Best accidental pivot of my life.
That was the beginning of a career that’s taken me from hand-painting bowling alley ads in Estes Park to embedded inside Lockheed Martin for 13 years designing interfaces for things I’m still not totally allowed to talk about. Quick-print shop in the Denver Tech Center. Web dev program at Platt College. LoDo duplication house. Defense contractor. Small studio. Freelance in every gap between.
The through-line in all of it? I show up, I figure it out, and I make things that work.
I’m a creative generalist — which used to feel like an apology and now feels like a superpower. I do brand identity, UX/UI, motion, print, social, illustration, and whatever else the problem requires. I don’t believe in “that’s not my lane.” I believe in solving the problem in front of me.
Right now I’m doing what I’ve always done: making complicated things clear.
Good design is not decoration. It’s decisions made on purpose.
If that sounds like someone you want in your corner — let’s talk.