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I am a husband and father of three wonderful children. My beautiful wife and I have been together since our marriage in 1983.

I have worked in a wide variety of jobs and locations, including my current position as technical director for a government graphics shop, photography lab, and television center.

My involvement with the graphic arts goes back to 1983 and includes traditional and electronic arts, illustration, animation, and design. I used to do layouts with Rubylith (remember that?) and technical pens, pasting up waxed galleys for brochure and poster work. QuarkXpress and InDesign is what I use today.

I have worked in gouache, oil, watercolor, ink, colored pencil, and pastel, and enjoyed using Iwata airbrushes with watercolors or Com-Art acrylic paints. Nowadays I'm more likely to use Illustrator or Painter and a Wacom tablet for illustration, but I still like to get my hands dirty once in a while.

In addition to my advisory jobs, I also work on the Web, designing pages, putting together graphics and animations, and coding databases and their Web and network interfaces. Wish I could show you more, but the intranet I work on is pretty well protected. Today's WYSIWYG authoring tools really help get the job done, but occasionally I still have to go in and troubleshoot code.

Previous jobs include: a Mandarin Chinese linguist for the Air Force for six years, a missionary in Taiwan for two years for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a finish carpenter, a ghost writer (historical fiction), a short stint as a TV animator (anyone remember Thundarr the Barbarian?), and musician, touring the intermountain West and Europe. It was a long time ago.

I was born and raised on the West Coast but have gotten pretty used to Maryland. I would love to be back on our farm outside Eatonville, Washington, at the foot of Mount Rainier, but that was even longer ago. Now it's been swallowed by suburban sprawl. Time marches on, I guess.

If you want more business-oriented information about me, my resume' is online.