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HOCKEY

WEB / GRAPHIC DESIGN

FAMILY and FRIENDS

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

TRAVEL

MUSIC

ASTRONOMY

BEACH

Without a doubt, hockey is my favorite past-time. It has been this way since I was a kid. Whether it was tip-toeing around on ponds, blasting away pucks accidentally breaking windows and garage doors, or simply having fun during friendly pickup games, I have cherished every second of it.

I played for 20 years, both ice and roller, in numerous leagues ranging from Club, High School, Juniors, Division III College, and competitive Men's Leagues. Needless to say, I would have rather played pro!

My accomplishments over the years include several League Scoring Leader Titles and League Championship Trophies.

Currently, I am in "retired" mode, wanting to spend all of my energy in my career and with my family. With the minute amount of free time I have, hockey has pretty much been impossible to play. Now it's living on the great memories and accolades I had while playing.

I captained two very successful teams at NAC. I was the captain of the NAC Stars, who won 13 league titles, and won my last championship as assistant captain of the talented Penguins in 2006. I won several League MVP honors from the 2001-2004 Seasons, and a summary of my seasons there can be found here.

I was also an integral player on the Sportsplex Vipers, where I won 2 league titles. Click here for a synopsis from the last great season! I hold the team record for most points in a season and points per game. Some video clips of me playing can be seen here.

Whatever team I played on, I made it a demand on myself to be the best player out there. Nothing else mattered more to me than winning...

Below are the website links to the teams I played for.
Make sure you check them out!!

My Hockey Trophy and Accomplishments shelf...something I am very proud of:

Web and Graphic Design is where both my leisurely creativity and career goals are centered around. I have been involved heavily with graphic and web design for over 15 years now.

I am founder of the largest Philadelphia Flyers gaming and fan site on the internet, The Flyers Hive. This site is something I am extremely proud of, as it has exploded with popularity! The visitors and supporters of it are world-wide!!

At times, I find the web and graphic design field to be more of a fun task than a work habit. This is because my talents are within this line of work, and there is nothing better than to find a career where your true talents can flourish.

If you are interested in having a web site developed, hosted, and maintained by me, I would be happy to provide you a quote on what I can provide. I have developed and maintained hundreds of websites on the internet, wordwide, which are linked below. Please click here for more information on my web development services.

My Family and Friends, without a doubt, play a very important role in my life.

They are the support in my life, and they are the individuals I can depend on during the good and the bad. They are the people I want to share the fun, laughs, and best of times with.

Digital Photography has become one of my favorite hobbies. The ease of simply pointing, snapping, and then uploading photos has made it a very fun activity. Add the fact that a large memory card can handle almost an infinite number of photos. I have been taking digital photos for over 10 years now. Some of my more fascinating shots can be seen by clicking the thumbnails below. For a brief description, hold your mouse cursor over the image for a few seconds. The below images are old, and some new ones are on the way.

World Travel is becoming another one of my favorite activities. Nothing invigorates me more than seeing parts of the world and how different cultures relate to the one I live in. Traveling abroad allows me to see how truly vast the world is.

I have visited the following places throughout the world:

Continental United States - California, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Illinois, and the entire East Coast.

International - England, Amsterdam, Canada, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Bahamas.

My wife Kara and I recently returned from our 2005 summer vacation to Cape May, New Jersey. We had an absolutely wonderful time. If you would like to see some photos from our vacation, click here.

A few years back, I took my 4th trip to visit my good friends in Norwich, England. My wife, Kara, joined me. We had an a fantastic time together, and our memories of it will last forever. Some photos from this trip can be seen here.

I have a pretty open mid when it comes to music. I have a CD collection of 350 titles, and an MP3 collection of over 3500 songs.

Without a doubt, my favorite band is 311. I know one of their managers, Yonnie, personally, and have seen them over 30 times live, traveling to several cities up and down the East Coast. Some multimedia I made from their 2003 Tour can be seen here.

If you haven't heard them live, then you haven't heard them yet.....they are, without question, the most vibrant band in the world when it comes to live energetic music.

One of the more relaxing and pacifying hobbies I have is Astronomy. I have always been fascinated with the night sky since I was a child.

I own a Meade 10" RCX400 GPS Telescope, and a Meade 4.5" 4500 Reflector. Both of which gives a viewer an amazing "diamonds in the sky" view of our heavens. I also own a Takahashi FS-60C Apochromatic Refractor, which I use for wide-field imaging. Deep space and planetary images these telescopes provide are absolutely breathtaking. Call me crazy, but I'm sometimes raring to get up at 3 in the morning on a frigid winter night to catch a celestial event. I have a dedicated page set up for some of my astrophotography. Several astrophotos of mine have been published internationally. Check them out here!

If there were one place on Earth I could drop all my belongings and kick back at, it would be the beach.

Give me sand, crystal clear water, the warmth of the overhead sun, and I'll be the happiest man alive. I have always, since childhood, loved the ocean. My parents said I used to cry when I was younger when we left the beach for the day. Who wouldn't?