I was born in Fresno, California, in 1957. I attended California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California where I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in art. My primary field of study was design and painting. Upon graduating college, I began my career in graphic design. Starting at an in-house grocery store advertising department in the San Francisco Bay area, I developed my graphic design skills and later moved to Bakersfield, California to work at The Bakersfield Californian as an ad designer. I left the newspaper in 1995 and I am...more
