I’m a designer, blogger, & social media enthusiast

(in a nutshell, a huge nerd!)

I was born in London which is a Canadian city that sits halfway between Toronto and Detroit.

When I was growing up, my dad’s hobby was fixing computers and as such he always made sure we had the latest-greatest. Immediately after we got the internet, my brother and I learned HTML.

I persisted with HTML and during high school I won a web design competition at a student fair. I used my design skills for print while I was editor of my high school yearbook. After peer-tutoring an art class in my final year, I became one of two students responsible for the entire school’s computer hardware, software and network issues.

When I realized I had a passion for art, I commuted to H.B. Beal Secondary School and spent three semesters there in the bealart program, a highly respected art foundations course which included art history, commercial art, painting, drawing, print-making, ceramics, photography, etc.

While studying Multimedia Design & Production at Humber College, I taught myself basic PHP while my peers were learning ColdFusion. I graduated in May of 2006 with honours and shortly thereafter began designing tableless CSS & XHTML websites.

After college, I spent a year as Creative Director for the start-up company, Pictures in Motion. After that I freelanced for a year until May of 2008 when I moved to Bath, UK to work for blubolt, a web development company that focuses on e-commerce integrations.