I started taking pictures when I was around 12 years old. My parents bought me a Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera and I pushed it to its limits -- which meant all I could do was point and shoot and collect those thin, tiny negatives. (I still have all the negatives I shot with that camera.) When I was about 13 or 14, a great uncle came to visit from California. He worked in the film business and told me of his adventures. That was it. I was hooked. I wanted to go into film making. At that time I also read the book "Jaws". I saw the movie "Jaws". Then I read the book on how they made the movie "Jaws". These also cemented my future path. Still interested in the still image, I studied still photography in high school, along with graphic arts -- one of only two women in the all-male vocational wing of the high school. I was still college bound, but I hung out in that creative wing of school as well. Alas I graduated from high school (ranked 12h out of 715 grads) and headed to Seton Hall University in North Jersey.

My major was Communications with a concentration in Film and TV. At Seton Hall, I took all the required communications courses. My electives included Photography (I used a Canon AE-1 for these courses), Fine Art History, Oil Painting, Advertising Design, Child Psychology and Computer Programming. Computer Programming? Where did that come from? Well the tests that they gave us in high school showed that I had a logical mind and would do well in the computer field.

While in college I was lucky to have three internships -- absolutely the way to go in the creative field. I worked at WWAC Channel 53 in Atlantic City, NJ the summer between junior and senior years. My last semester senior year I juggled three days a week at CBS in New York City, two days a week at Suburban Cable Vision in East Orange, NJ, my senior courses and my on-campus job in the film laboratory. The schedule definitely trained me for the real world in the creative business. I graduated from Seton Hall University with an overall 3.6 grade point average, a 3.9 in my major and a minor in Child Psychology. Graduation was a historic event as President Ronald Reagan - who was President at the time - was our keynote speaker. Pearl Bailey also spoke and received an honorary degree.

Within three months of graduation, I was working in a Philadelphia production company that was on the cutting edge of interactive touch-screen technology. There I was the assistant producer on a number of shoots. My most memorable shoot was with Buzz Aldrin, moon-walking astronaut. (See photo)

In 1985 I became the first employee of Rittenhouse Productions -- another Philadelphia production company where I would spend the next ten years. During my time at Rittenhouse, I wore many hats -- as is usually the case in a small company. I was a video producer, project manager, graphic designer, photographer, and headed up the Print Division of the company. I left Rittenhouse in 1995 as Senior Vice President, after securing a million-dollar contract as AT&T's agency of record for large business systems business-to-business collateral print work.

After leaving Rittenhouse I was a freelance graphic designer, video producer and photographer. I worked at a few more production companies and agencies until I became the Director of Marketing for Pierce Technology -- an IT consulting firm. When this company jumped onto the dot com solutions bandwagon I jumped on too. At ePierce Solutions I was one of two project managers for the creation of a world-wide intranet site for the human resources department of Morgan Stanley. This was a high-profile project that was completed in six months. I managed the content for this site for nearly two years after it launched. It’s also where I picked up my HTML programming skills. (Those high school aptitude tests were right after all) Once the Morgan Stanley contract was up, I kept myself busy as a freelancer until I became a Graphic Designer at a medical communications company in Princeton, NJ. In 2004 I entered the digital photo arena with a Canon Digital Rebel.

In 2005 I discovered slide-show making software. With this software, I could combine my photography, my video editing, and graphic design backgrounds along with my love for music. I was hooked, and upgraded my digital camera to a Canon EOS 50D with the Canon "L" Series lenses.

Now, I'm in the business of capturing life's magic moments with my digital camera and creating presentations that create lasting memories that speak to the heart while preserving history. Another camera upgrade is in my near future.