About Ken

About Me

As early as kindergarten I remember being perplexed by the number of fellow students who interpreted "Show and Tell" as an opportunity to present something they own, and not something they made themselves. 

In 1981 my father  gifted me a Timex Sinclair TS1000 personal computer.  It brought out the engineer in me and began a lifelong fascination with digital tools .  My first project was to code an animation in BASIC.    In 1983, I took my first formal class in visual computer programming using the software LOGO and manually programming a cursor called a "turtle".  By 1984, I was drawing my first image with a mouse in MacPaint for the school newspaper.  

Along side those early computer science classes, I enrolled in every possible visual arts class my high school could offer. One of those classes was an enterprise graphics course.  It operated as a small business providing offset, and silkscreen graphic reproduction to the local community.  I was hooked.  Somehow the reproduction of artwork was just as fascinating to me as creating it.

Upon high school graduation, I felt a detour into the exciting world of  maritime search and rescue might be a good way to start my adult life.  The Coast Guard recruiter showed the coolest video clips of heavy weather surf training at the infamous Cape Disappointment, in Washington State.  Fearless coxswain trainees crashing headlong into waves the size of two story houses.  Looked like fun to me, so I enlisted.   By far the most exciting experience of my life.  My duty took me to a small boat search and rescue station in the San Francisco bay, and then to the birthplace of the Coast Guard, Newburyport, Massachusetts, a heavy weather rescue station similar to the movies shown by my recruiter.  I earned my Federal Maritime Law Enforcement, and EMT certificates along the way.

Throughout my active service, I continued to illustrate, take photographs, and video.  Some of which I still have on file today.  Upon my honorable discharge, I decided somehow media arts would be my professional future.  So by 1990 I was taking photography and desktop publishing classes at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.  By 1995 I would earn my first professional employment in the graphics industry with Dartmouth Printing in Hanover, NH.   Just two years later, I would leave again for California to attend the academy of art University in San Francisco.

Since, my career path has stayed firmly rooted in the media for business industry, but has laterally expanded into marketing and online platforms.  I still complete creative digital projects as much for fun or experimentation as I do professionally but it has become ever more relevant to invest in applicable business knowledge.  I continue to inch my skills forward and add to an ever evolving portfolio. 

I am currently in pursuit of new opportunities  and looking forward to the journey.  Feel free to reach out and say hello.