>> My background started at Temple in 2003.
I actually started as a mechanical engineering major.
I wanted to design engines and cars, and then I quickly realized that I wasn't any good at math.
So I was struggling with the math and like the heavy science part of things,
and I said to myself one day, you know, I really got to get back
into cultivating the creative side of my brain.
And so I looked into advertising.
All the classes sounded really cool, got into the advertising school
and started to study art direction.
I had a lot of great professors.
A couple of them, you know, had real world experience.
They worked in agencies.
They had their own shops, so I was really learning from the best,
and that kind of molded me in my career.
And then from college, I graduated in '08, probably the worst time to look for a job.
I was fortunate to get a job after the summer.
I started as a designer for a Jewish Community Center in Winwood,
so I started as a print designed.
And then after like three years, I started to kind of introduce myself to the digital world.
I said, you know, this is kind of where we need to go as a brand,
and I need to go personally to expand my career.
So I kind of started to teach myself web design, just, you know, going to different web sites
for inspiration and kind of seeing what was hot at the moment and what was working,
and then also on the same side, keeping up with like current standards, so like the standards
of web design and coding and making sure that everything that I was learning was relevant
and wouldn't be defunct in, you know, a couple of years.