In 2004, I was accepted at Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design with a concentration in Human-Centered Communication Design.  I dropped everything and went back to school full-time.  The Master of Design program applies human-centered methods to help create new communications, including interactive and visual, electronic and print publications, software, Web and other media. We explored how people send, receive, analyze, share and interact with information, and how people can, should and do communicate. I also won 1st price in IIT's International Photo Contest in 2005.

While studying, I also freelanced at blueye and acted as a Project Manager and User Experience Expert.