I’m a musician, artist, wilderness athlete, and entrepreneur, not necessarily in that order. I’ve spent more than half my life (hint, that’s more than a quarter century) in print and digital media.

I started playing music professionally, or at least getting paid for gigs, while in middle school.

I started painting professionally, yes, getting paid for painting, while I was in college. It was mostly large scale work, usually 20 feet tall. I had a crew of between 10 and 17 other students assisting me. Each piece cost an average of $3,000 which was pretty good for a college kid. But I really didn’t make much, having to support those 10-17 painters. And houses weren’t exactly the most creative things to paint.

During the glory days of the 90s in Telluride, I got to ski, play music, and write for a living. This led perfectly to becoming art director and production manager for MountainFreak Magazine, an international environmental and adventure culture journal.

Since moving from Telluride, CO to Maine in 2000, I’ve been director of New Moon Multimedia, a design company specializing in interactive digital technology. I also spent a decade as Creative Director for Blue Planet Network, a global non-profit that my wife Leyla and I helped launch in 2004.

One of my biggest passions is fighting for fairness and justice—not just for people, but all of Earth’s life forms which are, large and small, all essential components of our existence. I’ve donated hours, weeks and even months of design services and consulting to at least a dozen different non-profits. I also served as virtual art director or web master for great orgs including Boulder dot Earth, 350 Colorado, KOTO Community Radio, Climate Colorado, Shining Mountain Waldorf School, Dear Governor Hickenlooper, and the Telluride Jazz Festival. For the Valley Floor Preservation Partners, I designed the identity system and web site that were instrumental in raising $25 million in just three months to preserve open space in Telluride, Colorado.

With new media, I have an outlet for all of my skills and passions, satisfying creative needs as a musician, writer, artist, leader and project manager. Continuing on the path from design into music, I’ve been able to compose and record soundtracks and jingles for multimedia web sites, interactive CDs and three short films. My ultimate goal is to create a niche as a composer/designer specializing in combining music composition, digital film editing and text animation to produce creative intro title sequences for films and cause-based web sites.

I grew up in Concord, MA, call Telluride, CO “home,” spend summers in Maine, and live in Boulder, CO with with my wife and 18-year-old daughter.