How can you contact me? There's a couple of great ways to get ahold of me. First, you can email me here. Next, you can download my resume here.
Where have I worked? I've done five internships in the past four years. Most recently I worked at Crew Creative Advertising in Los Angeles. I worked on several big movie websites like Watchmen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the upcoming Terminator: Salvation website where I worked on a very elaborate and very cool site comp. Prior to that I worked at MAYA Design doing UI design and web design, and Lands' End working on web design and web interface design.
What kind of software do I use regularly? I use Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Cinema 4D all the time. I built this site using Squarespace. I occasionally use Maya as well. I use all sorts of other little pieces of software to speed up my workflow as well but it's too much to list here. I do all my work on an old Mac G4 Powerbook with a Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet.
What do I like to design? I'll do just about anything that lets me create cool stuff. I love animation and motion graphics but I also truly enjoy UI design, especially when I get to work on conceptual, pie-in-the-sky ideas, things we may not see for ten or twenty years. Check out some of the projects on the Other Designs and Motion pages and you'll see what I mean.
What about other skills? I try to shoot photos when I can, although admittedly I've lacked the time over the last couple of months. You can see many of of photos, good and bad, at my Flickr page. I also play the guitar. I own three, a Schecter S-1, a Fender Stratocaster, and an Ovation acoustic.
Howzabout hobbies and fun stuff? I'm an avid gamer. Here's my Xbox 360 gamertag and PS3 Portable ID:
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I'm playing Guild Wars and Torchlight on the PC via Steam - here's my community page if you're curious. As for my PSP, I'm playing through Persona and Dissidia: Final Fantasy. On my Nintendo DS, I am playing through Shin Megami Tensei: Srange Journey. This doesn't count the many, many other games that I own that I just haven't gotten to yet. Games are certainly a passion of mine, having followed the industry since its early days. I first played a game on my dad's old Atari 2600 when I was little and quickly graduated to the NES. I've been playing games of all sorts ever since.
I am also quite the film buff. I have a nice collection of over 170 movies and TV shows on DVD, many of them classics. Among my favorite films are greats like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fight Club, Alien, The Princess Bride, Brazil, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Taxi Driver, Indiana Jones, and many more. I have a Netflix account as well and am constantly watching something new. Right now, I'm in the midst of Season 2 of Smallville and Season 1 of the updated Doctor Who, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.
I am a big music fan. My iTunes library is well over 70 gigabytes of music alone. I love all sorts of music, from Smashing Pumpkins to Kelly Clarkson to In Flames to Autechre to Mozart. You can get a sense of what I'm listening to at my Last.fm profile. Here's my Last.fm badge which updates with whatever I am currently listening to:
Lastly, I read quite a bit as well. I am a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk. But I also read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. My current novel of choice is Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.
What about social media? You can find me at a variety of places including Twitter, Last.fm, and Facebook. I use those three services the most. I am elsewhere as well, but generally don't use those services fully yet. I'll add links to other profiles here when I start using them more. Also, I have a blog of sorts. It's right here. I usually like to post things I find around the internet that inspire me, make me laugh, or are otherwise interesting enough to repost for others to see. You'll be sure to see a lot of posts about videogames and game design as I have quite the passion for the games industry.
Want to know more about me? Contact me! I've got my iPhone near me almost all of the time. I am very rarely without some connection to the world.