Who is this guy?

References

Dolores Acurso
Senior Director, Disaster Mgt., ICF
Dolores.Acurso@icf.com
225-588-5258

Patrick Gilchrist
Band Lead, Not My Weekend
gil630@gmail.com

Suzanne Naylor
Manager, Vint Hill Craft Winery
Suzanne@craftwinery.com
210-326-4611

And Why Did He choose that Photo?

When I was three years old, my parents took me to a local double feature playing Disney's Hercules and Mulan. Less than an hour before it was scheduled to start, I fell into a large fountain in the town plaza and completely drenched myself. However being the determined little brat I was at the time, I refused to go home. Instead, I convinced my parents to quickly take me to a nearby store to get a change of clothes so I wouldn't have to miss a second of either movie... even though I had already seen one of them.

 This was probably everyone's first clue about my love of art and animation, and though it would take me a few more years to really grasp that they were the fields I wanted to directly involve myself with, I would never be able to be pried away from them. To this day, the majority of the shows I watch in my spare time, are cartoons. 

Eventually, when the time came for college, I was thrilled, not because I would have access to the technology used to make what I loved (I had already experimented a bit with Adobe Flash a few years prior). No, I was thrilled because when I started attending Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, I was surround by people just as passionate as I was. The next four years were some of my favorite as I split my studies between Animation, of course, as well as Graphic Design once I learned my instructors thought I had a talent for it.  I also tried to make as much time as I could for the new friends I met though my classes, anime and game clubs, and of course the dorms, which is where I would meet some of my greatest friends who, and I'm sure this is just a coincidence, also were easily my most insane and corrupting ones.

So what did I do when the time came to leave this new paradise of mine? Well...you know the phrase 'break a leg'? Yeah I took that a bit too literally not one week before my graduation ceremony. Still that didn't stop me from getting up on stage to receive my degree. I just had to make sure to get the hang of crutches beforehand.