With more than 20 years personal experience and 10 years agency experience in pre-press print production and graphic design, I labour to solve a client's unique print communication needs in a collaborative environment with an art director and account manager or autonomously on my own.

The graphic designer of today must have a wide range of tools in their tool chest. My software knowledge and expertise includes the entire Adobe Creative Suite with particular emphasis on Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Flash development, including Microsoft PowerPoint for presentation, 3ds Max for 3D animaiton and a host of minor apps too long to list here.

Although Adobe Dreamweaver has become the defacto standard software for traditional web design, online CMS (Content Management System) such as Joomla are becoming wide-spread and common. More and more clients are demanding control over their website maintenance and Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are outstanding tools to use.

The list of skills necessary for front end web design are exhaustive. It is nearly impossible for one person to master all of them. Therefore, I concentrate on a core set of skills that enable me to perform nearly every front end web design task. HTML, XML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Joomla, Flash and a dash of style.

Logo design, photo manipulation and original artwork are all part and parcel of the work I've performed for clients. From tweaking already existing artwork to original product visualizations, I work autonomously or in concert with art directors, clients and design teams.

When I started doing digital art, there were no schools offering programs in the field. I am completely self taught. Armed with Photoshop, Illustrator, 3ds Max, Poser, Vue Xtreme, Blender 3D, Google Sketch and my trusty Wacom tablet, I wile my free hours away pushing pixels and vertices until my wife screams at me to get off the computer.

I have been teaching software to adults in the continuing education department at Dawson college and briefly at Champlain college since 1994. I have taught the following software at the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels: Quark Xpress, Microsoft Word - PowerPoint - Excel - Access, Adobe Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign, Autodesk 3ds Max - Maya.

Online tutorials come and go. So, I've taken the liberty of recreating some of my favourite tutorials I have found useful over the years. They are created in my teaching style and are generally meant for the beginner to intermediate level. Feel free to browse and use at your leisure.

I have 5 years experience writing copy for web based projects. I have a solid background in marketing language with an emphasis in the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry.

I believe in using the fewest words possible while employing the simplest terms to facilitate the customer's awareness of the product. In other words, the faster you tell your story, the easier it is to keep top of mind and the quicker a decision is reached.