Personal Objective
To research and explore the advanced concepts of computer generated imaging from both an aesthetic and technological perspective.

Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
MFA candidate in Electronic Visualization
Expected date of graduation: August 2003

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
BFA, Computer Animation 2000

Academic Honors
Louisiana State University Honor Scholarship 1994
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Petroleum Engineering Scholarship 1994
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Honor's Convocation spring 99, spring 2000
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Dean's List: spring 97, fall 97, spring 98, fall 98, spring 99, fall 99,spring 2000

Organizations
- ACM SIGGRAPH, 2001 - present
- International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, Programme Committee; September 2001. Avignon, France.
- American Institute of Architecture Students, 1995
- Industrial Design Students of Louisiana, 1996
 
Skills
Experience with a variety of platforms including Windows NT/2000, MacOS and UNIX (Linux, IRIX and Solaris) based workstations
C++, Open GL, CAVE©, Yggdrasil, HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash, Maya

Selected Exhibitions
- How Human: Life in the Post Genome Era, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Feb 28 - May 25, 2003
- photoGENEsis: Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Nov 9, 2002
- Block Museum, Evanston, IL
May 24 - 25, 2002
- Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 9 - 12, 2002
- Version>02, Museum of Contemporary Art;, Chicago, IL
April 18 - 20, 2002
- Who?, Murphy Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
March 16 - 23, 2002
- Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
September 1 - 6, 2001
- Genomic Art: Portrait of the 21st Century, University of California Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz, CA
June - August 2001. .
- Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 11 -15, 2001

Related Experience
August 2002 - present: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Instructor
- Art and Technology 3213 - Advanced Computer Animation II

June 2002 - present: University of Illinois at Chicago, Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Chicago, Illinois
Research Assistant: Linux, PC, SGI tech support
- Assist the lab with various hardware/software related issues on Linux, PC, SGI machines

October 2001 - present: Applied Interactives
Chicago, Illinois
Co-Founder, Director
- Design and develop passive-stereo virtual reality hardware systems
- Develop software applications and content to be displayed on such systems

March 2001 - present: (Art)N Laboratories
Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist
- Extensive 3d computer modeling, texturing, & lighting
- Manage, create and execute production of barrier screen auto-stereoscopic imagery
- Maintain a multi-platform lab and network with SGI, PC and Macintosh computers

January 2001 - May 2002: University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art & Design
Chicago, Illinois
Instructor
- Art and Design 406 - Modeling in Maya for Interactive Applications