The Whole Theme

In his spare time my grandfather was a painter. Still lifes, landscapes, cityscapes. Since he died when I was an infant I never actually knew him, but apparently the gene made the trip.

I spent my childhood filling sketchbooks. Three decades later and my favorite part of the creative process is still putting pencil to paper.

I started my career in New York City designing trading cards. Baseball, basketball, football, Marvel, Star Wars, Pokémon. If it came in a foil pack and caused arguments on a school bus, I probably had a hand in it. It was a really fun way to learn the business side of the creative process.

From there I found my way into brand, campaign, and communications work, which is where I've been ever since and where I've found what I actually love about this field: the problem solving. A blank page can be scary at first, but there's no better feeling than working through a real creative challenge and landing on a solution that feels like it was meant to be. That part never gets old.

My career has taken me deep into B2B. When your job is making the complex and technical feel clear and compelling to audiences who know their stuff, you get very good at finding the thing that actually matters and putting it front and center. The challenges can be harder than they look and the budgets are almost always smaller than you'd like. I've learned to love both.

When I'm not working I'm usually in the garden, in the woodshop, or attempting a home repair I may or may not be qualified for. There's creativity in it all. Turns out that's kind of the whole theme.

I'm based in Cleveland, Ohio, and genuinely excited about what comes next.