Randomly listed off the cuff things about me that

may be relevant or of interest to

potential clients, employers & co workers

I have a healthy sense of humor and LOVE intelligent sarcasm.

I approach the art and science of UX/UI design as Fung Shui for computer screens.

I am very practiced at learning new software as agile dev teams ideate.

I am a child at heart.  

I'm easy going and try to have as much fun as I can every day.

I have a sophisticated wide ranging taste in music.

I'm calm, quiet and even tempered  most of the time.

I'm the sort of person that you can stand to be in the same room with 40 hrs a week.

For me, creativity is as natural as breathing.  

I am equal parts designer, artist, scientist & technician.

I talk out loud to myself when I work.

I name my cars and computers.

I love making gourmet food.

I strive to never be in a hurry, and always be on time.

I am a percussionist who is also known for having exceptional timing in other areas of life.

I have latent physic abilities that show up rather randomly and create interesting happenstance.

I am a Fractal Art pioneer and explorer.

My Motto… the 3 P’s.  Pizza, Popcorn and Puppies, keep em close.

I am a 9th generation American and a 4th generation Coloradan.

My Grandfather on my mothers side was a 33rd Degree Free Mason who navigated a B-17 on 195 bombing missions over Germany during WW II

I am a Middle Earth Scholar.  I also have great love for the works Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and A Song of Ice and Fire (GOT).

I’m a juggler that can pass balls with other jugglers.

This is a good non technology example of my ability to work as a team and collaborate so as not to “drop the ball”

I have specialty of Deville sticks with 35 years of practice.  I have taught 100s of people this elusive skill.

I can think on my feet and improvise.

I am very adept at multi tasking, but can also hone in on a laser focused single task.

In high school I sang in the senior choir.  

I like to listen to music while I work and sing along.

In 2011  I cofounded a Beatles tribute band called Strawberry Fields.

While I am no digital native, my best friend in jr high school was one of the original pioneers of the internet.

I am a master level technician in all aspects of large format fine art reproduction printing.  I am one of the foremost professionals in America for this kind of service to artists.

According to Linkedins competence test, I am in the top 70% of Photoshop professionals worldwide.  

I am a hard core, to the bone big mountain snowboarder that lives to drop an untracked line on a powder day. Everything else in life is a means to that end, at least as long as I can walk.

In 2008 I started a Youtube channel called Powder POV and  pioneered helmet camera filming on Mt Bachelor several years before go pros were even on the market..

In 2010 I bought the url mtbachelor.co and started an independent ski area Wordpress blog called  Unofficial Mt Bachelor were I featured my helmet camera movies and posted relevant Adsense ads.

I love good connoisseur grade cannabis and always have. I am exceptionally skilled at rolling joints.   I have grown, trimmed, and smoked unimaginable quantities of high grade stash during the past 14 years since it started to become legal.  

In general, Im as pro hemp as it gets.  I have also walked beside and am on a first name basis with some of the most influential  figures in American cannabis legalization history.

I am the sort of person who isn’t afraid to think for myself, question assumptions and be different from the rest of the pack when I see a good reason. This happens a lot.   I have always been like that, so I’m used to it.  

I would totally be the kid pointing out the obvious in the book, The Emperors New Cloths.

Pardon the cliche, but thinking outside the box is my baseline behavior pattern.  

I’m more like question everything, including but not limited to laws of nature and think outside the 3rd dimension to harness the infinite power of the spiraling double helix fractal hologram that shapes our very existence at the quantum level.  

My motto…  No one is in charge.

A few of my Heros, some fictional, some non fictional

Nickola Tesla

Paul Stamits

Ida Rolf

Paramahansa Yogananda

Pope Sixith the 5th.

Elon Musk

Sasha Shulgin

Nick Sands

Amma

Eckhart Tolle

The Dali Lama

John Mayer (aka John Slayer)

Albert Hoffman

Sirius Black

Andres Segovia

Howard Pinsky

Buckminster Fuller

AC Bhaktivedanta Swami

The McKenna brothers

Colonel Harland David Sander (KFC)

All members of the band Phish

All members of the Beatles

Bob Marley

Tom Petty

Howard Roark

John Galt

Benjamin Franklin

Steve Jobs

Luther Burbank

Lord Azril

Lyra Belacqua

Iorek Byrnison

Seraphim of Sarov

Archbishop John Maximovich

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I am a classically trained musician and I approach my design practice with a musical mindset.

“Great design should emulate the qualities of a great song.  Above all, its success can be measured by its ability to stand the test of time.” Brian Paul Smith"

My ability to use computers to learn new skills and constantly adapt as technology advances is my primary survival mechanism in Post Covid 21st century America.

That being said, my goal is to spend as much of my life, not looking at a computer screen as I can.

I have the Smith gene and have always excelled at hand craft.  Designing is no different.  It comes naturally.

I’m a use the right tool for the right job kinda guy.  

Thats why I use a top of the line 22HD Wacom Cintig “Big Boy Designer” interface to do my digital work so my physical interaction with the device is very tactile and organic.

It also makes me at least 2 times faster and more accurate than any designer who is NOT using a touch screen input device.  

My Motto…Better tools = better work, faster.

I am an internationally recognized visual artist specializing in the medium of lenticular printing.   My creative works are hanging in collections around the world.  

I headed the creative/art department for a multi year big budget large scale art install at Burning Man in 2012-2013.  In 2013 my teams project, Sacred Spaces Village, won the Golden Rebar Award for Best Theme Camp.

Ultimately, I would like to find a job working with other tech pioneers who have also been to, or want to go to Burning Man and who get how influential  that event is in the fields of art, technology and design.

I have had numerous clinical administrations of the worlds most potent entheogens  NN and 5 MEO DMT (aka the Spirit Molecule.)
Its no secret that in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere in tech pioneering circles, the most innovative prolific designers artists and thinkers in history have employed

entheogens to spur creative lucidity and gain an edge to solve the worlds greatest creative design challenges and invent the most beloved devices known to man.  

Being an eye witness to the experience, I can attest to the immense value these tools have for innovation in creativity and design.

In the non computer realm.  I am peer recognized master sharpener with over 20 years of commercial experience servicing high end beauticians shears and culinary cutlery.

The two main men I apprenticed with for this craft were both inventors that created game changing analog user interfaces that turned entire industries upside down with their disruptive innovation. What these new tools allowed for was a next gen increase in the quality of work that was humanly possible.  Ie: how sharp can you possibly make a knife or shear?  It gave birth to a phrase I coined,  “Maximum Sharpness”.  

Here is a level of edge on a cutting tool that is unsurpassed in history.  The stuff of Samarii sword legend.   The kind of edge that can literally split a human hair.

This paved the way for the people using the tools that our tools serviced  to in turn do better work faster.

In the food service industry, the biggest cost is labor and the second biggest is ingredients.

What if???? By simply making the tools that the people preparing the food used to cut the food sharper, the level of ingredient efficiency was literally doubled, and siamotainously so was the quality.

All while cutting labor costs in half and making the chefs love their jobs twice as much.  Oh and too boot, food tastes twice as good when its cut with a sharp knife.   Try it.

I don’t know about you, but that is my kind of User Experience Design and my kind of business equation.

I founded and ran a bootcamp sharpening training school in Port Townsend Washington and have taught many people how to sharpen professionally.

My first student, on his first day in the field, thru happenstance, pitched a free demo to some chefs taking a break in an alley in Berkley California.

The chefs were impressed with the work (they had the chic Japanese global knives which had just come onto the market, the ones that Don Norman loves ) so they gave my student every knife in their kitchen to sharpen and then fed him lunch.  

The place had some French name, Chez something….

As it turned out, true story, that restaurant was non other than Alice Waters World Renowned Organic Bistro  Chez Panisse.

At that time I believe it was rated the best restaurant on Earth by many food critics.  

To summarize, My first student, on his first day, lands an account with one of the best restaurants in the world.

All because I enabled him to provide an exceptional value by solving a common problem with an innovative design solution.

I bring the same attitude and approach to my UX/UI design, thats why I think this story is reinvent.  

That, and its a great story.  BTW Im a story teller too.

I consider quality and value before price with every purchase decision I make.

I aways buy the best quality tools and education I can obtain regardless of price.

I am in my very essence allergic to mediocrity and irresistibly
drawn to excellence in every area of life.

I am hardwired to a fault to be punctual.  

Ask anyone who knows me.  If I was a device I’d be a Swiss watch.

I believe in to the penny, fiscal accountability.  

I am genetically pre dispositioned to make everything around me work better and
more efficiently.

I see everything as energy in different forms.

I see the world as numbers and geometric patterns.

I am fascinated by mathematics and hidden codes that shape the universe like phi ratios the fibonacci sequence  and vortex geometry.

I practice rigorous honesty and strive to have a transparent life.

I value a clear conscience and a good nights sleep above most things in life.

I believe that we are all one eternal being of pure love, sharing in
an illusory experience of separation.  

I only want what wealth I have earned thru providing exceptional value to my fellow humans.

I believe that always  doing what you say you will,  is the greatest secret to a life by design.  

As one friend puts it, “ You’re either a victim of circumstance, or a master of intention.”  I strive to be the latter.

I am a dog person, (who also loves cats.)  

I'm loyal like a dog.

Im pretty sure, I was a dog in a past life.

I relate to dogs better then I do with some humans.

I am an innovator by nature.  If its in my environment,  I will make it more efficient

Building better mouse traps is just what I do and have always done

The BIG Question:

Why should you pay me 10s of thousands of dollars or more every year?  

The short answer… Math!

If you hire me,  I will earn the enterprise you represent a larger sum than you pay me.

The cost to value ratio in every service I provide is a solid investment.  

The day that isn’t the case is the day I issue a refund.

That’s how I roll.

To summarize,

Im smart, fun, creative, competent, punctual & honest.  

I know how to think like a business person.

Solving problems and coming thru with high quality design deliverables

puts me in my happy place.

Are you my design tribe?

If you have invested the time and effort to read this far, I propose we work together for a week and try things out, NSA.  

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