When I started
It all began with Quake III Arena, its beauty and playability was second to none at the time. I always played it at a friend's house and that was where I got the bright idea to build my own computer. It was here I found my one of my new hobbies, building and fixing computers. At age 13 there wasn't much money to be used and had to skip on most power but I was able to get by with a 500mhz Celeron. 64mb SDRAM, and a Voodoo 3, yes that was a VooDoo 3 that is now non-existant. One day with boredom taking over I decided to try to download the editor and see what mess I can make. It was pretty bad but then again most first maps aren't spectatular. I was pretty proud of myself as I only found one tutorial on how t set it up and learned the rest myself but I put it away for awhile. It wasn't until Call of Duty that I wanted to make maps again and I hit it big! I became almost obsessed, I worked on my maps nearly every day. I always say things on how "this" would be better with that or "that" would be better with this but now I could add "this" or "that" if I wanted too. With nine maps completly finished I decided to go for a career in the field. I then moved to Call of Duty United Offensive that introduced more gametypes, weapons, and vehicles. After a year or so Call of Duty 2 was released and I joined a mod team, Unbound Forces, and have been with them since. Although progress is slow I have completed two maps and am Lead Level Design. I work with the coder to impliment mapping aspects of gametypes.
Education
I am currently enrolled at Ohio State University pursuing an degree in Visual Communications. I am just finishing my 2nd quarter here after two years at Lakeland Community College and currently have over 100 credit hours completed. After completing the general education courses at Lakeland I transferred to continue with core classes in Visual Communications. I was also allowed to take courses in the graduate program for animation. The class I am currently in is low poly modeling in Maya 2008 and I plan on continuing when my undergraduate studies allow.