I was born in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, December 4, 1972 and came to live in the United States in 1982; Panama City, Florida is where I first lived and moved to Jacksonville, Florida and later to Tampa, Florida. I did not realize I had a keen interest in math and science until I reached college for I only thought I was only a mere artist. After high school, I enlisted in the US Navy for two years to obtain the Montgomery G.I. Bill to assist me as I attended college. I immediately attended Hillsborough Community College after discharge from the service and manage to complete my degree with a 3.67 GPA. My career of computer graphics began at HCC when I started working with Commodore Amiga computers. From that, I expanded my knowledge with 2D graphics utilizing bitmap and vector oriented programs like Photoshop and Illustrator. I familiarized my self with both the Macintosh and Windows environments. I wish to expand my knowledge of computer graphics by self-teaching page layout programs, 3D graphics, video editing, html, and JavaScript. I am also interested in programming and software development.