My hobbies include everything you see on this website, and probably several more. I’m big into art of all kinds, and I am constantly pursuing new skills and learning. Building models, painting, sculpting, writing, drawing, playing guitar, archery, and I exercise and study martial arts to help keep me sane in a crazy world.
I Eat, Sleep and
Breathe Creative Arts
Based in Spruce Grove, Alberta, but proudly serving clients across Canada, as well as in the United States, the EU and Australia. If you’re in need of consultation or graphic design services, please feel free to contact me here.
T: 780-983-6051
I Like to Learn Stuff
Highlights of Qualifications
- Highly Effective Communication Skills; Able to simplify advanced concepts for easy comprehension. Able to interact effectively with individuals of all ages and skill levels.
- Effective Time-Management skills; Work very-well under pressure and within deadlines.
- Excellent artistic ability and unlimited creativity; Capable of rapidly producing detailed conceptual art and design documentation.
- Intelligent and Adaptable; Able to learn new technology & techniques quickly and effectively to produce consistently excellent results.
- Work equally effective independent and unsupervised, or as part of a team.
- Well-developed management and supervisory skills; Have coordinated and worked with small teams and large groups equally to accomplish a multitude of various tasks.
- Over 35-years of computer hardware & software experience across a wide range of platforms.
- Well-versed in story/narrative composition, transverse media, and marketing.
- Extensive social media management experience Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tik-Tok.
- Positive and fun to work with, in any environment, in any situation. I always bring my A-game.
Technical Experience
- Graphic Design & Layout; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash (Deprecated), CorelDraw!, Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Publisher, Adobe Fireworks & Adobe ImageReady
- Website Design & Development; Adobe Dreamweaver, Advanced HTML, XML/XHTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, E-Commerce Development & Implementation (WooCommerce, OpenCart), CMS Dev; Joomla/Wordpress
- Extensive Operating Systems Experience; DOS, Assembly, COBAL, Unix/Linux, Windows, Apple BASIC, and Comfortable with Mac OS
- Software Development & Programming; C, C++, Visual Studio, Coldfusion, Javascript, Actionscript, DarkBASIC, Apple Basic, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Q-3 Radiant game development platforms.
- Video Editing; Adobe Premiere, Movavi Video Editor, Speed Razor, Flame, AVID, and Roxio Media Editing Suite.
- Sound Editing & Production; Ableton, Cakewalk, Soundforge, ACID Pro, Hammerhead Rhythm Studio.
- Office & Administration; Microsoft Office Suite – Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint & Outlook, Bookkeeping
- 3-Dimensional & Architectural Modeling, Animation, Rendering and Special Effects production; Maya, Blender, 3D-Studio (Max thru R2), 3D Viz, AutoCAD, Lightwave, SoftImage, Bryce 3D, Flash (Deprecated)
- Networking Implementation, Administration, Troubleshooting and Analysis.
- Print-House Technical Skills; Large-format camera operation, film development & press layout.
I Really Enjoy Martial Arts
I have been practicing Shaolin and Wing-Chun styles of kung-fu for the past 12 years, 8 of those under the tutelage of the late Master Shifu Chiu Lau in Edmonton, and since then with my Seijei and Sehings-turned-Shifu’s Donna Manca, Michael Gubbels and Eric Budd, at Chiu Lau Kung Fu College in Edmonton, AB. I have also been very fortunate to travel to China on three occasions, to live and train for a short time with the monks at the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province. An absolutely eye-opening and mind-expanding experience, every single time. The training, focus and self-discipline of the monks is unparalleled, and I learned alot during each trip.
At some point in the near future, I hope to document (at least in pictures) the events of those trips. For now, here are a few of my favourite photos.
I’d Really Like to be a Game Developer
My primary focus at the moment, is maintaining my day-job creating professional websites and graphics, generally staying alive (seriously, 2020-2022..wth… sheeesh), and trying to publish a video game I created called SAK’D. It’s a passion-project I started about 5 years ago with the hopes of creating an incredible 2.5d platformer game, a bit of an homage to some of my favourite retro games, like Wonderboy in Monster Land®, Rayman®, and Castlevania®. I worked on the project with the help of about 26 volunteers over the course of about 3 years, and together we created some really incredible material. Then, the pandemic hit and I was forced with a decision; give up on the SAK’D project altogether, or keep trying to personally fund and manage development of an easier, smaller project based on the original game, with the help of my core team. Well, I’m sure as hell not giving up, so I decided on the latter, and you can read more about that awesome project here.
Have you seen the other things I get up to? Click the button below and pick a category to see some of my other hobbies, hopes, and dreams for a creative future.
