Had recently developed his own company, Burning Bridges, Inc.
Was planning on marrying fiancée Bayu LaPrade of Marina del Rey at the time of his unexpected death. The cause was undisclosed.
Born in Rhode Island, he grew up in Manchester (graduated from Manchester High School) in Connecticut, and had lived in Marina del Rey and Venice, California since 1995. He was a 1995 graduate of Emerson College in Boston.
During the course of his career as a visual effects artist, he was associated with such companies as Hydraulx, Digital Domain and Creo.
Curly-haired visual special effects artist who worked as an animation assistant for Disney's Dinosaur (2000).