The next thing I know 5 years have passed (It was a 2 week contract) and I'm now directing technology for the company. They needed someone to build Flash banners for lead generation. I decided to do some temp work through an agency which lead to my next position. Working for myself was fun and helped me learn a lot, but was not the most stable financially. Personally, during all this time, I got married and had a child. At this point I am comfortable with Graphic Design and building out basic sites with HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. Luckily I was also able to find a few clients who needed sites that allowed me to use some of I worked to learn it building anything I could think of. I had a handle on HTML, CSS was new and easy for me to understand, so I focused on PHP and MySQL. So, I started to learn more about the web. Graphic design for print was paying the bills, but I knew I needed to expand. ![]() I then spent the next 7 years helping companies with their graphic design needs. Fast forward a little and I was managing production, teaching others the skills I had learned, and building my first website before moving on to try my hand at entrepreneurship. This taught me the ins and out of prepping files for printing. I then moved from running the press to handling pre-press. This taught me that I have a knack for fixing things and an understanding how processes work together to make an overall system work. Not exactly Graphic design, but it got me in the door. ![]() Shortly after that I was able to start a job as a digital printing press operator. My professional career started in 1994 when I graduated from The Art Institute of Dallas with my Associates of Applied Arts Degree.
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