• Endless hours of ingesting sugar-coated cereal and staring at
Saturday morning cartoons, studying the graphic mastery of Chuck Jones,
Bob Clampett & Friz Freleng.
• Years of art classes of every facet from elementary school on up
through high school.
• Weekends of watching my grandfather hand-letter movie titles for
Paramount Pictures with gouache on illustration board in the days before
computers.
• Three and a half years of night school earning my graphic design
degree while holding down a full time job and raising a great kid.
• 1983 Staff Artist (Salon Interiors - Englewood, NJ)
Developed floor plans and rendered full color illustrations of proposed
beauty salons.
• 1984-Present Freelance Graphic Designer/Illustrator
Produced oodles of posters, t-shirts, flyers, invitations, announcements,
logos, brochures, and recently, web-based graphics.
• 1988-1999 - Hazy ten years of unfulfilling,
monotonous, suit & tie type financial jobs that upon review, only
served as an impetous for getting my ass back to school to accomplish
what I was put on this earth to do.
• 1998-1999 Graphic Artist (North Jersey Newspapers)
Built ads at night and weekends as part of an intern program for this
Bergen County newspaper company
• 1999-Present Web Designer (The Magna Group)
Create comprehensive ads for this North Jersey Retail Ad Agency that specializes
in the automotive industry. Introduced the company to web graphics and
spearheaded the creation of the agency's web design department.
