I was born in Toronto and grew up in lower east Scarborough. I've been drawing since I was 4 or 5.

I attended a visual arts high school Wexford CI on the promise that I would pursue the visual arts and academics concurrently. There I studied printmaking, life drawing, painting, illustration, graphic design, sculpture and photography as well as most of the asian six pack ie. physics, chemistry, biology, calculus, algebra & geometry (i skipped finite). I also took my first official animation course during this time, although not at Wexford, but a private weekend class at Timothy Slater's Animation school.

 

I attended Classical Animation at Sheridan College. In second year I won the 2002 Teletoon Continuing Education Scholarship Award with my second year demo reel. My mom also passed away during that second year and it was the most challenging thing to cope with. So in my third year, I made a film about her although I didn't plan it that way. I was just writing a lot for myself and then this little poem came out and I just knew that I had to make it into a film. "Sherry, like the Drink" placed second in the 2003 Teletoon Most Promising Student Award and it played in a few festivals.

"Sherry, like the Drink" caught the attention of Montreal NFB producer Michael Fukushima and this led to me working on a proposal for the upcoming children's series Talespinners 2. During the year that I was working on this film proposal, I was also studying at Seneca College in the 3D Maya program and, unrelated to my relationship with Michael, I was working at the NFB Mediatheque in Toronto as an animation workshop instructor. The Mediatheque was a really great experience where I worked with fellow Sheridan graduates Rob Silvestry and Lillian Chan to develop an animation curriculum of sorts. Every weekend we brought new animation ideas to the kids and we really catapulted the "Can't Sit Still" and the "Open Workshops" into popularity.

Just as I graduated from Seneca in 2004, my NFB film proposal for "Asthma Tech" was approved for production. I immediately moved to Montreal. After a gruelling two years in producion, I finished "Asthma Tech", my first professional film. The festival circuit has just started for my film, but so far it's going to screen in Chicago, Rimouski and Vancouver.

In early July 2006 I was the animator on an NFB documentary "Lipsett".

In late August 2006 I got picked up by an LA based studio Halon Entertainment for a position as a pre-vis animator on a Paramount feature film that they are shooting in Montreal. At the same time, I've been working on a little side project with Kid Koala, called "Floor Kids" to promote his brand new album.