About me. Hmm, well, yes. I am fulfilled by being a man of faith, a husband, and a father. My other great joys are what I do: communicating, art, photography, music, and the guitar.

Pre-Teens: born; family upheaval; moved across the country.

Teens: relative stability until the end; more family upheaval; finished High School and started College.

Twenties: my career in the Air Force.

Thirties: re-entered civillian life in the publishing industry; started writing; got married; started a family; moved; discovered my great passions at the end of this decade.

Fourties: just starting them; maturing in family, photography, music, art, writing; looking forward to success.

Professional History

2006-present

Photographer / Artist / Musician / Producer / Audio Engineer (the list keeps growing!)

1999-present

Author
(see published works)

1999-2005

Catalyst Marketing Design, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Independant Contractor (2002-2005)

Technical Editor (1999-2001)
Many books on HTML, operating systems, and graphics

1998-1999

Fayette County School Corporation, Connersville, Indiana
Assistant Technology Coordinator
Faculty and Staff Trainer

1996-1998

Macmillan Computer Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana
Development Editor
Software Development Specialist

1988-1995

United States Air Force
Intelligence Officer

Published Works (partial list)

The Official Corel Paint Shop Pro Magazine (Imagine Publishing; May, 2008 to present)
Your Pro Tools Studio (Course Technology PTR; 2008)
Photo Restoration and Retouching Using Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo (Course Technology PTR; 2007)
Music Tech Magazine (Anthem Publishing; September 2007, November 2007)
Cakewalk SONAR 6 Producer Edition (VTC)
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI Artistry (VTC)
Sony ACID Pro 6.0 Tutorial (VTC)
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial (VTC)
Corel Paint Shop Pro X Essentials (VTC)
Running Mac Office 2001 (Microsoft Press)
CliffNotes: Creating Your First Web Site with FrontPage 2000 (IDG)
Windows 2000 Bible (IDG)
Intel Web site (case studies for the Intel e-Business Center) (Intel)
Macworld magazine (Mac Publishing, LLC; April 2001)

Education

2006

Recording Workshop
Chillicothe, Ohio
Honors Graduate

1984-1988

United States Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bachelor of Science, History (Middle-East Area Studies)

1980-1984

New Castle Chrysler High School
New Castle, Indiana
High School Diploma

Technology & Gear

Art/Photography

Digital Photography (Sony Alpha 300 DSLR, Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 super wide-angle lens, various point & shoot digital cameras)
Photomatrix
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo (all versions)
Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, etc.)
Adobe Photoshop Elements (all versions)
Wacom Pen Tablet (Graphire4 6x8)
Photo Restoration and Photo Retouching (professional services)

Music/Studio

Guitar (electric & acoustic)
Electric Bass (4-string)
Digidesign Pro Tools HD, LE, and M-Powered
Sony ACID Pro 6.0
Cakewalk Sonar 6
Home studio recording
Composing, arranging, producing, recording, mixing
Properllerhead Reason 3
Steinberg Wave Lab 5
Sony Vegas + DVD
Native Instruments Kompakt
Many VS/VSTi, DX/DXi, RTAS, and TDM plug-ins
Camtasia Studio 3
MIDI
Alto Saxophone (from a long time ago)
Vocals
Some keyboard/piano

See My Studio & Audio Gear and The Recording Workshop for more specific gear

General Computing & Internet

Microsoft Windows (all versions)
Apple Macintosh (all versions)
Web design, development (HTML/CSS)
Microsoft Office (Win/Mac; all applications)
OpenOffice.org
Hardware installation, troubleshooting
Networking and Network Administration
Macromedia (Dreamweaver, Flash, etc.)
Quark Express
Expertise on the Internet, World-Wide Web, and with many other software applications