About the Author

Background

  • Landscape Design, age 2
    Landscape Design, age 2
  • Fashion Design, age 3
    Fashion Design, age 3

I became interested in web design in 1997 at merely twelve years old and, using Anabella's HTML help, taught myself how to hard-code HTML.

During high school, I won a web design competition at the SLOME student fair. I used my design skills for print while I was editor of my high school yearbook. I also peer-tutored art students and was one of two co-operative education students responsible for the entire school's computer hardware and software issues.

I also spent three semesters at H.B. Beal Secondary School in the bealart program, a highly respected art foundations course where I did a full studio rotation including commercial art, painting, drawing, print-making, ceramics, photography, art history, etc.

Post-Secondary Education

While studying Multimedia Design & Production at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, 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.

From Then Until Now...

I spent a year working full-time as Creative Director for a start-up company that provided DVD photo tributes for the funeral industry. After that I successfully freelanced for a year until I moved to Bath, England and began work for blubolt, a web development company that focuses on e-commerce integrations.