Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, I aspired to be an artist and musician. By the time I was in third grade, I was showing signs of inherited talent for drawing and a tasteful eye. My Father, an artist as well, showed me the art of painting, and photography. It seemed that my family really couldn't go anywhere without my father nearby with a camera. It was the true start to my curiosity on making things look good.

My father was an accomplished restaurant owner, and like my sister and 2 older brothers, I began learning the art of cooking, service, and communicating with customers. By the time I was 20, I was managing the restaurant with my brothers learning everything from book keeping to staff managing.

As a kid growing up with a devoted family to a restaurant, I would spend hours sitting around as a young kid while others worked. This is were my father first introduced me to computers. I was already fining myself playing video games due to the rural area and lack of neighbors. At five years old I playing Dungeons and Dragons Advance for Intellivision. By the time I was six, I was playing with graphic programs on an Apple Computer my father had for business at the restaurant.

I grew up in the forefront of the Personal Computer Revolution as I like to call it, and in Junior High and High School I primarily focused on developing my artist skills. This earned me several prizes in art competitions and photography competitions which later lead to written recommendations by my art teachers and a grant to go to college. Just as the Internet Revolution began to take shape, I entered into a University where I initially went for a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After my second year, and realizing the important roll computers will be taking in shaping the art world, I began focusing on earning a second degree in Graphic Design. My Senior year I was helping my advertising graphics teacher with web developing.

During my college years, I began to take a step further in 3-D animation and video game developing by learning Lightwave, Maya and C++ coding. I quickly began modifying the video games that I played to more of my liking. If sound effects weren't good enough, I would create a sound mod, or a graphic mod to improve the graphic quality of the games. By 2003 I graduated college, and had a fair grasp on the Quake 3 gaming engine. I also started to develop a new passion for War World 2. Playing games like Close Combat and Medal of Honor, I found myself studying, and reading up on the history of the war for historical accuracy. This love actually was fueled early on in life, but really started to play more of a roll shortly after College.

A year after graduation, I joined the US Navy for several different reasons. Finding work freshly out of school was not as easy as they preached and with the events of September 11th, I felt that I need to contribute my talents to a cause that I can believe in. My father was a US Sailor and my grandfather worked the ship yards in Philadelphia during WW2. In April of 2003, I left for Boot Camp. You can read about my naval career here.

After the Navy, I focused on graphics and web developing. I was also continuing developing for Video Games with a concentration on WW2 gaming. The 325th GIR is a gaming community that I've helped to build since 2002. The 325th provided me with a platform for developing and a large community base for critiquing. It also open the door for me with web servers, gaming servers, and dedicated servers. Great companies and deals for Windows, Mac and Linux serving and hosting.

During this time I moved back to Pennsylvania with my family and began working as a developer for Golden Travel Guides which is a national network of local guides. This is where I expanded my web developing knowledge to include php, xml, javascripting, and MYSQL database developing. In this fast pace work, I was doing developing for Hotels.com as well as managing of over 500 web sites and URLs.

In April of 2006, I left Golden Travel to return back to something that I love doing, helping individuals and business clients establish a foothold in the Internet world by providing them with top of the line graphics and web based developing. Contact me for quotes, pricing and availability. If you are looking for consultation, I am always available. That is enough about me, lets talk about you.