A unique background yields unique results So how did I arrive at this strange destination between the left and right hemispheres of my brain? I really started this road when I was a child. Both my parents are artists so I took to drawing incessantly ever since I could pick up a pencil and a paint brush. I received my first computer when I was ten. It had an 8086 processor and 15k of RAM. My parents only allowed me to play educational games, so I found other uses for the machine. I became interested in programming at thirteen with one of my childhood friends. We spent hours together in front of the amber screen working on programs in GW-BASIC. Later I was introduced to the world of graphics via my father's investment in a Mac Classic. I spent countless hours from age 13 to 17 in programs like Think Pascal, HyperCard and MacDraw. This continued until the end of high school, which led me to become interested in more powerful languages like C++ and PERL in college. All the while my lust for art never stopped. I have filled sketch books upon sketch books throughout my life and always managed to fit in a studio arts class every semester in college. Though I continued to study art and computers in college, I did not major in either. A new form of expression had also grabbed my interest. I fell in love with the French language and ended up spending 14 months in France when I was twenty. I became interested in French because it was so different from anything I had experienced before. It was a part of my conscience that I had never explored. So what does French have to do with multimedia? Well, apart from its occasional use in localizing products, they say that diversity in nature promotes strength and I find it to be no different in society or the work place. French has provided me with a unique viewpoint on the world and many new experiences that have deepened my pool of creative inspirations. I have found that learning a foreign language allowed me to become a more adaptable person and helps me to see things from other perspectives. My degree in French did not deter me from continuing to study both art and computer science. By the time I received my diploma, I was armed with all the painting and drawing studio art classes you could take at the university and all the prerequisites required to enter the Masters program in Computer Science at Montana State University. I could not afford grad school so I began working as a free-lance developer. I later started a job at Montana State University as a multimedia developer and have never looked back since. Whether it is art, computers or French, I always enjoy pushing my self to new levels and expanding in new directions. Multimedia works well for me because it is always changing and growing. It is a diverse medium where the possibilities for expression are limitless.