Deep in the piney woods of East Texas, a boy grew up curious and creative. His love for art was in his DNA. When he made it to high school he knew he wanted to be an artist. He received a scholarship to Kilgore College for drawing and painting. He took a class called ‘Computers in Art’. It changed his life, as well as discovering Raygun Magazine and David Carson. He changed his major, lost his scholarship, and ditched a paintbrush for a computer mouse. This was 1997 and Photoshop 4.0 was all the rage.

Fast forward a few years, he moved to Denton, Texas to finish his degree at The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts & Design. He has worked at a few agencies big and small; TM, The Integer Group, Publicis/Hawkeye, Rockfish Interactive, and for the past ten years VML, where he is currently a Director of Product Experience Design, where he leads design teams and cooks pancakes once a month for the office.

In his spare time, he and his wife operate North Texas Corgi Connection, a 501c3 corgi-specific dog rescue, on the board of directors for APEC Adaptive Foundation, an ultra-endurance mountain bike, gravel, and bikepacking competitor, an avid outdoorsman and fly fisherman.