There is nothing like the thrill of seeing your design on the printed page. The tactile feeling you get of gripping that freshly minted piece in your hands for the first time. This is why Print media will always be my first love.

But Print is nothing new. It's been around since the time of the dark ages when we as a civilization needed to express ourselves to the masses. And we shall have this media well into the foreseeable future.

What I love about my print portfolio is that over the twenty year course of my career thus far, it has run the gambit of everything from Entertainment to Charity, Education to Religious, and Automotive to Fashion industries. The work herein shows a wide variety of clients and projects that have not only shaped me as a client-focused designer, but as a goal-centric project manager that is eager to get the very best results for all of my customers.

Our digital lives have evolved so much over the last few years and so has every designers digital portfolio. Whether you specialize in one type of design, or dabble in multiple disciplines, a designer's portfolio can't ever be truly complete if one doesn't include some sort of design that involves the digital realm.

Here is a smattering of artwork that I have collected over my years designing. I hope you enjoy my digital portfolio and the technical skills and broad range of avenues it represents.

Social

For almost twenty years, social media has been a part of our everyday lives. Starting with Myspace, ICQ and AIM, and with more modern platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and a host of others, we are more connected with our internet visage than every before. But that also translates to more opportunities to design for this heavily trafficked medium as well.

My Social Media portfolio has a plethora of various kinds of banners, ads, and content to peruse; from several different companies and personal sites. Just don't find yourself falling down any rabbit holes along the way . . .

Newpaper

For several years, I had the fantastic honor of working with some of the best people in the newspaper industry both on the press and design sides of the trade.

From the pre-press and press operations in a printing facility in Xenia that was able to handle more than 30 daily and weekly newspapers; to a collective of weekly printed newspapers in Kettering, not only did I received a fantastic education on the inner workings of how a large, multi-armed publication ran, and how an in-house agency ran at the speed of light, but had the privilege to work along side some industry leaders in journalism and design.

Presented in this newspaper portfolio is just some of the work that I generated from that invaluable time.

Photography

Being a third generation amateur photographer, it's in my blood. My grandfather started it as a hobby when he was in the Second World War while stationed in Australia and brought the hobby back with him to the states. He continued to use the skills he learned to capture memories of his family's life and produce slides throughout the years. My mother picked up the hobby early on and she actually bought Canon's first programmable camera, the AE-1; the camera I would later learn on.

I eventually caught the shutter bug and continue to this day capturing our most important memories. And now, with todays extra technology, am able to retouch our most treasured pastimes into portraits or special commemoratives for the whole family to enjoy. Now, photography and retouching has become a part of my artistic persona; I hope you enjoy.

Fine Art and Crafting

First and foremost, I am an artist. When I started this journey over twenty-five years ago trying to find a creative way to cohesively organize my Genealogy project for 4-H, I kept finding myself coming back to an old (now defunct) program on the computer to create graphics, organizational materials and pages for my binders. It was in this 'AHA' moment that I knew I could do this for a lifetime and never get tired of it!

Now, all these years later, I still return to my artistic and crafting world from time to time to remind myself of the organic and breath of fresh air that sometime a computer just can't give us. this section of my portfolio will give you a glimpse into some of the pieces that I've enjoyed creating just for fun.