About Me

I live in Lex­ing­ton, Min­nesota with my wife of 10 years and our four chil­dren, a dog, three cats and a turtle.

My love of graphic design had its begin­ning when I was a cashier for Office­Max in ‘97.

When Office­Max cre­ated the Copy­Max seg­ment of their stores, I was cho­sen to tran­si­tion to the new depart­ment. With very lit­tle train­ing avail­able to the new Copy­Max Asso­ciates, and a brand new Mac com­puter in the store (full of design soft­ware) I bought my first self-help book from the Barnes & Nobles store next door and taught myself QuarkX­press 3.11 dur­ing my shift.

In the years to fol­low, I soaked up all the infor­ma­tion I could on var­i­ous com­puter pro­grams and the best ways to use them.
But it wasn’t until the Spring of 2001, when a brother-in-law (who was a graphic designer him­self) got me a job as a desk­top spe­cial­ist at an Alpha­Graph­ics print shop.

Like an appren­tice to a mas­ter, I learned every­thing I could about graphic design and the print indus­try from my  brother-in-law (Aaron), in a way that I wouldn’t learn in a school…on the job, with real clients, real prob­lems and I learned real solutions.

I now run my own free­lance photo stu­dio & design com­pany out of my home, while work­ing third shift as a Senior Enhanced Desk­top Spe­cial­ist. My goal is to one day be able to work from home exclusively.

With over 13 years of graphic design and cre­ativ­ity flow­ing through my veins, I am cur­rently going back to school at the Art Insti­tutes to get my Bach­e­lors of Sci­ence degree in Graphic Design.