For the past three years, I’ve been doing the New York grind. Trying to figure out what  allured me to the city in the first place. I was born across the river staring at the city for just less than a year before we moved to Florida. I was inundated with media from a young age and started drawing young as well. In the early 90′s New York was everything in Florida. Everything was modeled after it and soon I became that way as well. 

In High School, I ran away from art until senior year where it really started to sink in that I could be doing something with art, design, and video. At 16 years old, I was designing advertisements for a women’s shoe store; making full-length skateboarding videos with my friends, and drawing characters inspired by Japanese role-playing video games. 

Even so, it wasn’t until college where I realized what I could do, I began freelancing in my spare time. For the past 10 years, I have devoted myself to improving my “new” art; trying to test everything out and forge my own style.

For the past three years, I have been in living in Brooklyn and working in apartments, restaurants, supermarkets, and in branding firms. In all this time, I have become quite versed in the Adobe Creative Suite and much more confident in my ability to succeed and evolve in this brave new world. I currently work as Creative Director of MYN North America, a branding firm in Union Square, Manhattan; and as Creative Director of North Side LLC., a expanding restaurant group based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.  I have used Elance and Upwork for the last couple years to great success in my spare time. I recently came across Toptal, a top tier design outsourcing website. It looks to be the next step up. I just applied and am looking forward to where my skills can be taken when met with the grandiose ideas and capability of Toptal Freelance Visual Designers Network.