2002-04 Hartnell College:
Life Drawing II and III.
1999-00 Painting and Drawing Studio Assistant & Waxroom Q.C. with the sculptor Richard MacDonald
1988-89 Hartnell College:
Chemistry, Speech, U.S. History I, II and III,World History I, II and III, Logic, Statistics as well as Early Childhood Education.
1988-96 Hyatt/Marriott:
Completed various seminars on building leadership, cultivating effective multi-department teams, identifying unseen problems and generating innovative solutions.Camp Hyatt,Concierge,Bellman,Operator,Front Desk,Room Service,Host and Cashier of various restaurants.
1985-87 Monterey Peninsula College:
Astronomy, Life Drawing I,II and III, Physical and Cultural Anthropology, Art History I, II and III, English Composition and Reading Comprehension, Psychology, Color Theory and Early Childhood Education.
1985-86 University Of California Santa Cruz:
Color Theory and Life Drawing I.
1984-88; 96-97 Community Hospital Children's Program and the School District:
Planned and provided activities appropriate for children who ranged in age from Pre-school to ten.
Gained administrative skills not only through working with children, but also in handling cash, supervising and maintaining a safe, clean and healthy environment as well as through resposibility for closing and securing the building.
1984-86 Two years of Independant Study with oil painter David Ligare.
1982-85 Monterey High School:
Diploma, College Preparatory Classes, Art Classes, and the Regional Occupational Program In Graphic Arts and Photography.
1978-83 U.S.M.C. Cadets/O.C.S.:
USMC physical fitness training, survival skills, study of surface-to-air and air-to-air missle technologies; Aircraft escape and evasion techniques.
1975-78 Navy Sea Cadets:
All aspects of seamanship, navigation, Electronic Warfare Studies and onboard Firefighter.
Construction Trade:
Studied under my Father who was a Designer-Builder in the Construction Trade. He gave me an architectural sense of the world.
Learning all aspects of building from foundation laying, cement pouring, sheet rock installation, tile setting, roof shingle installation and including drawing blueprint wireframe drawings transformed into truescale perspective examples of what a client anticipated.