She has combined these interests and talents in her career by designing software tools for artists. She was an engineer on Macromedia's original Shockwave team and has been developing Director Shockwave technology for the past two years. She was a principle designer of After Effects 1.0 and created Adobe ScreenReady. She has both Computer Science and Visual Arts degrees. Her favorite media are pencil, oil, and holography.
Artists play an essential role in the digital world.
A new medium composed of software for creation, presentation, and communication, is making available vast opportunitities for good design and creative solutions. Traditional computer work groups are shifting to making room for artists.