ABOUT

I am a Shreveport-based educator, trainer, designer, and all-around creative thinker with over 25 years of combined professional and teaching experience.

As an Associate Professor in the LSU Shreveport Digital Arts Program, I teach a number of design courses to include website design/development as well as interactive and game design. I'm the director of the LaPIXEL Digital Arts & Media Academy summer program where middle and high school students learn how to design and develop video games. I'm also the designer of the IdeaSpace, a new on-campus facility dedicated to teaching others to become innovative thinkers and creative problem solvers. 

In my career, I have received national recognition and several national awards, as well as multiple ADDY advertising awards, for my designs. I also hold multiple industry-level Adobe certifications and I am a past recipient of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) District 10’s Outstanding Educator of the Year award. I am currently the Education Chair and a past president of AAF Shreveport-Bossier. I also serve on the Adobe Education Leader advisory board, the National Advertising Review Board, I am an active member of IDEO’s Community of Practice, and I have served on the AAF's National Education Executive Committee.

I hold a Master of Fine Arts degree in design from Louisiana Tech University, master’s degrees in both education and design from Northwestern State University, a bachelor’s degree in design from LSUS, and I have attended the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University.