I developed a love of working with clay as a small child. When my mother would bring home a package of plastelina clay from the 5 & 10 store, it would entertain me for days. I would make all kinds of creations from my imagination. I made knights and the dragons they would fight, spacemen, holiday figurines, the animals I saw around me, and images from books.

When I was ten, I started to visit my older brother in Philadelphia for summer vacation. These visits would provide me a few weeks exposed to the artwork and culture - so different from the rural farm country in Pennsylvania. Occasionally, on these visits I was lucky enough to go to the sculpture studios of Miles and Generalis, two young local sculptors as few blocks away. I didnít even know there was an option to be a sculptor as your "job" until I met them. They would let me watch them work and encourage my creations in clay. It was so exciting. I tried to soak it all up since it would be a very long time until the next visit. They had attended PCA – Philadelphia College of Art, and majored in industrial design which inspired me to look into that myself. At the end of my junior year of high school I made a trip to PCA for a portfolio review, and to my delight I was accepted. In 1985 I moved to Philadelphia, PA and attended PCA -where I chose to major in Industrial Design. I discovered that industrial design is basically sculpture for things we use everyday. It played not only into my love of working in three-dimensions but into my fascination for how things worked.

This Industrial Design training combined with a continued passion for learning has brought me to where I am today. I worked as an industrial designer – designing several pieces of medical equipment including a blood analyzer and a wheelchair. I worked at a XEROX research facility as a designer and model-maker. Later, due to job market demands I switched to specialize in graphic design and computer illustration. As a result, I have accumulated a wide variety of experience. I have modeled ironwork (in clay) at the historic Samuel Yellin ironworks, illustrated complex stealth helicopter mechanics for Boeing, and created branding identities for clients in all sectors of the business and high-tech community. But in recent years, I have been lucky enough to be able to refine my career once again. My focus now is on my first love, sculpture. I have recently completed several large architectural commissions and have added to my resume a sculpture created for the U.S. Olympic Team and a relief panel for the U.S. Treasury. I am very excited about what the future might hold – what project might be next, and what I have yet to learn.