Education:  

            International Academy of Design and Technology (Academy), Tampa, FL
            Bachelor of Fine Arts, Computer Animation
            Projected Graduation Date: December 2008

  Coursework:

            Drawing for Animators III – Practiced animation skills and techniques for pulling together an cartoon             sequence in an animation pipeline.
                Project: Storyboarded and animated a single scene within a group project.

            Production Studio I – Learned and practiced pre-production activities and procedure for preparing a             production project.
                Project: Assembled resources materials into a story bible; including a premise, a script, character                 and background reference, a storyboard, and an animatic.

           Graphic Design- Learned the fundamentals techniques of graphic design.
                Project- Created a digital painting utilizing graphic techniques learned.

            Practical experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Microsoft Word, Toon Boom, Drawing,             Storyboarding, and traditional animation.    

            1st Place in ‘Best Drawing’ for the Director’s Review Scholarship,
             IADT, Tampa, FL - 2004

                   
            Designer/Artist, In My Demise (www.myspace.com/inmydemise)  
               Design graphics for use on band T-Shirts and CDs.  2007 – 2008

           B&W Group Illustration, Nov 2007
           For the private collection of Nichol Ford,
           http://murphy.spectrumvoid.net/pics/araihime_pofa.html

          2 B&W Character Illustrations, Oct 2007
          For the private collection of Lee Mynatt

         Color Character Illustration, June 2008
         For the private collection of Jennifer Buckley
         
         Color Characters & Scene, April 2008
         For the private collection of Jessica Soth