About Me

I began my professional life as an aerospace engineer, but in 1993, I came to my senses and returned to school to do something I loved, ANIMATION.  As an MFA student at the UCLA Animation Workshop, I experimented with different mediums, including cel, computer, and sand-on-glass.  "Unborn Baby Blues" is my sand animation film animated to an original blues song.  "Unborn Baby Blues" won a whole bunch of awards - first place in the student category at the World Animation Celebration; 24th Student Academy Award gold medal winner in animation (yes, a real Academy Award); second place in traditional animation at the Television Academy College Awards; first place in student animation at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival; Best Animated Film in South Beach Film Festival; runner-up for the Audience Favorite Award at the $100 Film Festival of Calgary; and it screened in the "Best of the Fest" at the Pacific Coast Film Festival.  It is now appearing on Channel Frederator, episode 106 (its the second of three short films in this episode).

Since the creation of "Unborn Baby Blues," I have a cultivated a wide range of professional experiences working on feature films, videogame cinematics and cinematics for a middle-school math curriculum DVD. Throughout those various projects, I have animated people and animals, using a diverse array of animation styles. I’ve found I enjoy working in a team environment and take suggestions well from both colleagues and animation leads.

I am very driven to earn an opportunity to work with the best artists, pushing the limits of my capabilities to help create outstanding animated projects.