About

**I am updating this website as of July 2025, so everything is a bit disorganized right now, which is a rare occurrence according to my clients.”

 

Who am I? is a question that has many answers.

I would most likely answer it with another question: What day is it?

I am fortunate to have the opportunities and the ability to switch gears or jobs from day to day, with a simple mindset of helping my clients succeed and meeting their challenges, from creative services (design, print, photography, and videography) to information technology (consulting, planning, design, and support). I typically start my day by browsing through my email and messages, making sure all my clients’ technical systems are running (education, finance, legal, manufacturing, publishing, research). Once my clients are settled, I will shift gears to my creative side, where I might be involved in production planning, photo/video production, and digital design/print, or packing up gear for an off-site shoot. Occasionally, I would be in management consulting or project management for something totally unrelated industry.

The publishing industry isn’t foreign to me. Looking back, it was around the age of 16, when I was working in my high school's yearbook and newspaper department. At the time, I wasn’t a writer, nor have I ever become one or want to be one; rather, I focused on the technical aspect – how to make it more efficient and how to migrate from a Tandy TRS-80 to an IBM PS/2. Desktop publishing was still very manual and largely analog, and when it was time for final print production, it involved a lot of cutting and printing of text and photographs, then using rubber cement to paste them onto a layout board, making them camera-ready for the production of the printing plate.

Photography was more of a side hobby, starting with a point-and-shoot Nikon and Canon, and progressing to a Nikon F3, and everything in between. The high school era was mainly on a Canon and Nikon point-and-shoot film camera.

During my university years, all these publishing and photography became non-existent until my graduate school years, when I purchased a Power Mac 8100 series. However, my studies were not in anything close to or related to the publishing industry; instead, I focused on economics, society, human resources management, and some computer-related fields.

The Internet was established, but it only began to gain widespread recognition among the general public. Having been the first Webmaster during my graduate studies, I entered the dot-com business for a few years, progressing from technical support to sales engineer (making the software works just like what the Sales guy sold but not necessary what it was geared to do) to system and network engineer (a little secret...I crashed a satellite-based network once that linked up car dealerships in North America, or as I put it, I found the weak point of the system). Somewhere in between, I worked with IBM's AS/300 and System/32 to System/36, making them network and Internet-ready for integration.

 

More to come...