Education

I received my BFA at the Meadows School of the Art, SMU in 2000. This program gave me exposure to working across media — drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. I went on to study painting at the University of Washington, where I received my MFA in 2003.

Teaching

From 2003-2007, I was a practicing artist and fortunate to find work as an instructor of art at SMU. I taught classes that bridged traditional disciplines (life drawing, sculpture, etc) with new technologies (3D modeling, photoshop, etc). This was a fun period of my life where I was able to use the classroom as a lab for exploring ideas while making a positive impact on many lives.

Entrepreneurship

In 2007 I decided to start SlideRoom, an online system for organizations to receive and review media-rich portfolios from artists and other types of applicants. As the first online system to replace 35mm slides and CDs, adoption grew quickly within higher education and arts organizations globally. My exit from this company was in 2017. That same year I co-founded a new company named Learning Machine to help organizations issue natively digital credentials instead of paper-based records. That company was acquired three years later.