I am a 26-year old artist originally born in Tilburg, Netherlands whose family moved to America when I was just 3. My life has been surrounded by various mediums of art and artists who have encouraged and fostered my creativity.

     As a kid I always loved video games, eventually being enrolled into a video games art summer program hosted by iD Tech camps at Villanova University, where I received my first taste of the gaming arts and was inspired to start pursuing it as a career path. After graduating high school at Garnet Valley High School in Pennsylvania, I immediately enrolled at Fullsail University in Orlando, Florida for an accelerated 2 year bachelor’s degree program. There I honed my skills as a professional artist and learned the game design production pipeline and how to develop art assets for video games. After a very intense two years, I graduated with a degree in Video Game Art, specializing in Environmental Art. Graduating two years ahead of most of my peers I decided to attend a community college to study an architecture degree and focusing my time on some independent and freelance game design work, teaching the very game design classes for iD Tech Camps that got me started year ago. I began to learn and develop my own lines of jewelry designs. After a short time in the military (National Guard Infantry) getting injured and then retired, I returned and helped found a nonprofit organization for jewelry artists called "The Impact Artist Project", which I did mostly all of the graphic design work for. I eventually left that project and started working at CornerStone Software Development Inc. I stayed at CSDI for about 3 years working on a large variety of 3D interactive demos to show off new upcoming technology that was being developed by clients such as Qualcomm, Intelsat, OneWeb and others. These were interesting opportunities to get a glimpse of where technology is going while challenging myself to go outside the comfort zone of my normal skills, as a generalist has to wear many hats and do a bit of anything. I am now pursuing my next opportunities and am excited to see where that leads.