Improvisation • Innovation
Inspiration • Integration • Intuition

My Self

• Professionally, an artist+writer+creator, and a business+marketing+design professional
  (consultant, guide, educator, researcher, writer, trainer).
• A multidimensional and spiritual composite of ethereal yet grounded, analytical yet creative,
  whimsical yet serious, intuitive yet logical.
• An innovative, entrepreneurial, creative, playful, and interdisciplinary mindset.

My Education, Training, and Work

• Post-doc: 35 graduate hours in design & architecture; U of OK
• PhD: Marketing/Bus Ad; U of OK; MBA; BA
• Training in metal work, litho, drawing, photo, textile arts, pottery, culinary, and other.

Post-doctoral study of marketing + design

• analyses of consumer experience
• product/design
• user interface
• market gaps/needs/opportunities
• environmental trends/threats/opportunities
• strategic product/market and design issues
• design theory
• visual communication
• multi-sensory learning
• brand and identity
• tangibles and identity
• communication effectiveness
• behavioral and environmental
• psych, design+culture
• creativity and related topics
• current consulting in the above

My Art

• Abstract expressionism and formalism, emanating from intuition and emotion more than training.
• Media vary: acrylics, paints, inks, pastels, oils pastels, found objects, multimedia.
• My work has been shown in Carmel, Scottsdale, Napa Valley galleries.
• Poetry on B/W photos, a photo-narrative of the meanings of possessions, hung at Norman, OK and at PhotoSpiva2000, Joplin, MO (2000).