I began my design education in school, where print-outs from PageMaker were rubber-cemented onto production sheets. The next day, printed newspapers magically appeared in the cafeteria. I doubt anyone works that way anymore, and it’s just as well — the part that fascinated me was the process of turning plain-text pages into something beautiful. My design aesthetics and interests have changed since school, but I’ve never lost my passion for elegant design and pixel-perfect typography.

I have 14 years of experience in web, graphic and book design. I have worked with hundreds of clients both in the United States and around the world for clients including RE/Max, Jackson Hewitt, and AEG Worldwide. Yet small businesses have given me some of my most interesting projects, and their owners have worked with me to produce some of the projects of which I am most proud, including FeverSalon.com and ChiroPureandSimple.com.

As a developer, I hand-build sites with accessible, standards-based tools including HTML5 and CSS3, and spin them onto content management systems such as WordPress and ExpressionEngine. The key to my work is flexibility: If I don’t know how to complete a request, I learn how, or I hire someone who does. The most important aspect of my work is attention to detail, and I work until my clients are satisfied.

Previously in my career I worked as a small press owner and editor, and had the pleasure of publishing writing by and interviews with authors including Robert Olen Butler, Umberto Eco, and Margaret George. While that experience was exciting and inspiring, once again, it was the less well-known names who taught me the most: perseverence, the value of a kind word, and faith in the future.