First creative direction: illustration and design. Worked as photo assistant and designed and sold own greeting card line to small convenience stores. Photos have appeared on catalogue covers, Yankee Magazine's website, in galleries and sold to private collectors.

Finished first manuscript, "HAPPY" and currently working on "BIG BAND JOE", a young man's struggle to leave a futureless town and realize the dream of a lifetime - to play with the best big bands in the world.