I am a graphic designer and I both work in graphic design and I teach graphic design. I consider myself to be a Creative Educator, bringing my experience in the tech sector as well as the culinary arts to my approach as a visual storyteller. During my career of over twenty years, I have enjoyed teaching and working in China where I found that my love for design, technology and the culinary arts were a combination of particular sklls that shape the work I do even today.

I consider myself to be an innovative problem solver and I understand that ability to find solutions to problems a trait that I credit to my autistic perspective in life. I have had the privilege of cooking for distinguished figures such as the governors of Pennsyvania dn Xining, China. My guiding principle for both my vocation in design as well as life is a quote inspired by Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage and the men and women merely players, but there still needs to be someone to rig the lights.” I’m the light rigger.

In the future, I would like to return to Asia where I have always felt that the knowledge I have acquired through experience and training as the expertise I have developed are highly respected. In the U.S. I find that the challenges facing designers, teachers, and the disabled are greater. Opportunities abroad, particularly in China, hold higher honor and value.

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