• Grew up near Boston, graduated from Brown, majored first in Biology and then in English.

• Moved to Seattle for graduate work at the University of Washington in Communications. Master's Thesis was a riveting film about transportation planning politics which aired on local PBS station KCTS.

• Spent a decade programming alternative format radio stations (and deejaying): KOL-FM, KZOK-FM, KZAM-FM.

• Spent half-a-decade writing and directing for Watts/Silverstein, mostly multi-image presentations, some films and videos, many live events and speeches, even a museum exhibit.

• Spent almost a decade at Microsoft, ran the Multimedia Publishing Group for almost five years, responsible for Encarta and many other CD-ROM titles.

• Immersed myself in fine art photography, Served as Acting Executive Director for Photographic Center Northwest.

• Joined a technology startup that died, started doing freelance creative.

• Moved to New York for several years to run marketing for a Wall Street technology company, which we sold.

• Back to Seattle, back to freelance creative.

• And so here we are.

Certified outdoorsy.