Oddly enough it started out with a flyer from the Burke Museum I picked up at the Henri here in Seattle about Mushroom Maynia! I attended the seminar, which incredibly revealed the importance of fungi in the ecosystem…I mean Fungi is one of the five kingdoms of living things in the Linnean Classification System!

A few days later…I began to see the resemblance of the world-wide-web and social media to the branching threadlike nervous system called Mycelium. This experience inspired me to recognize that this happens all the time!

I look forward to the opportunity to provide enough shape to an experience so that the end user is enabled to accomplish their goal. The most comfortable chairs for example offer just enough contour and padding to compliment my experience. Moreover a comfortable chair reliably accomplishes the hidden ROI’s of rest and comfort, which lead to innovative thinking, a peaceful cup of tea or a conversation that ends up changing the world.

I am = dreamer + realist + scientific + caring + thoughtful = meaningful design! Rock on!

I have always been here…as a creative and a communicator. Sometimes a journey will take time and if you believe in yourself the universe will conspire to help you get where your heart wants to travel.

Actually, I hiked 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine to understand where I was headed in life as a creature. Honestly, for awhile I stumbled trying to understand my place on this Earth. We are animals, like the birds in the sky and fish in the stream that pass through your town. I wrestled with the conflict of interest that comes from the realization that I was domesticated. The opportunity to come to these realizations was quite liberating for me and this freedom helped me find my current path.

One of my current goals is to maintain my awareness for the connections present in ecosystems and my design work and process. Problem solving, observing and active learning environments are a great source of inspiration from me.

Ohhh! Who submitted that one? Trick question’s are not fair. Seriously, my strength is I can generally bring most of my designs to life. I am a designer knows how to work with developers because of my experience coding projects and prototyping.

I get up everyday thinking of myself as a designer.

I attended design school at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. I studied mostly print design but soon after graduation I began to focus primarily on the pixel based medium! I have not looked back since and I absolutely love my current focus on digital design.

Prior to design school I was a back country ranger in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Big change huh! Well it has really paid off. A good deal of the user interface and experience work I do in my design is inspired from the ecosystem.

This site is built with Expression Engine 1.6.x. When Expression Engine 2.0 is launched I will upgrade. I just love the workflow of being a smart designer, coding the front end html/css and then chunking up my templates and sprinkling in those EE tags to bring the site to life!

Speaking again to my process, this way of working makes sense for me and allows me to focus on specific tasks and stages to awakening the organs and systems of a website.

I’d be letting you down if I didn’t share this part. I like to multi-task in this area like a hungry squirrel, so I am currently juggling my continued interest in Fungi, learning to sail and saving up for a piano to become more ambidextrous in both hand and mind.

I work with the wonderfully talented group of people at Methodologie in downtown Seattle, Washington. Methodologie is a communications strategy firm that knows how to listen, guide and enable its clients for success and new frontiers.

The people I rub shoulders with are amazing because they have interesting lives and they are passionate about the work we do at Methodologie. Let’s just say I look forward to going to work!