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Artist and Landscape Designer with strong background in the fine arts, product development, team management, writing, and oral and graphic communication. Six years of experience in the game play industry, creative problem solving, and overseeing the growth of a product from sketch to toy store shelf, requiring exceptional visual communication skills. Six years in the field of landscape design, from problem solving to creative planning, working with residential clients, delivering blueprints for imaginative yet practical designs for indoor-outdoor living needs.

Conway School of Landscape Design, Conway, Massachusetts

Master of Arts in Landscape Design, June 1999

Project-oriented graduate program emphasizing environmentally sound landscape planning and design practices, site analysis, report writing, graphics, and public presentations for contracted clients.

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Master of Fine Arts, May 1969

emphasis on drawing, painting and printmaking

Exhibitions

Paintings and prints have been shown at the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Heron School of Art; Kansas State University; the New England Open Show in Canton, Connecticut; Stout State University; the Milwaukee Art Center; Photo Graphics Workshop, New Canaan, Connecticut; the Ellsworth Gallery, Simsbury, Connecticut; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Westfield State College; annual exhibitions of the Western Massachusetts Professional Illustrator’s Guild; and in West Hartford Art League's 2007 Open Juried Exhibition (cash award).

Art Instructor

The University of Wisconsin; The Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, Connecticut; Northwest Connecticut Community College, Winsted, Connecticut; and Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts.

Conway School of Landscape Design, Conway, Massachusetts

Projects contracted with clients included:

Residential design for a newly constructed home in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, included relocation of septic system, design for entryway and backyard patio, planting plans for gardens, and siting new driveway.

A Master Plan for an industrial park in Londonderry, New Hampshire, siting development to balance economic needs of the landowner with ecological issues on the land.

Redesign of an urban park in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, as a town common, creating spaces for multiple use, siting a bandstand, tot lot, memorial garden, and picnic areas. Worked with several town organizations for consensus on design schemes.

Town of Granville, Massachusetts

Designed the expanded Granville Town Green. Drew proposed design and perspective drawings. Oversaw basic construction, selection and placement of boulders, stone retaining walls, and stone steps.

Milton Bradley Co. (Hasbro Games), East Longmeadow, Massachusetts

Game Designer and Product Developer

Designed game play concepts for licensed and non-licensed games.

Researched and formulated plans for developing products with marketing department objectives.

Oversaw product development from oral presentation of concept, to construction of game prototypes, to observational play sessions, to coordination with Art Department staff, to final manufactured product.

Supervised model makers and sculptors on projects.

Wrote rules for assembly and game play. Worked with engineers on costs, mechanics, electronic components, safety and manufacturing issues.

Was part of an 8-member team of designers whose game designs won for Hasbro exclusive rights from Lucas Film to the license for electronic games for the “Star Wars” movie sequel episodes.

•Illustrations for The Turbulent Mirror by Briggs & Peat, Harper & Row, 1988

Illustrations for The Looking Glass Universe by Briggs & Peat, Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Other clients have included Hasbro, Inc., Milton Bradley Co., Learning Technologies, Inc., and Noble & Cooley Co.

CTReview, fall 2005. www.connecticutreview.com

University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research, Morehead City, North Carolina

Biological Illustrator.