I found a love for lighting in undergraduate school, one year before graduation. I took a summer job as an electrician in a theater in Albuquerque and I was hooked. When I changed my major from pre-law to design the following semester, my old man (a lawyer) flipped his lid. But I persisted because I'm wildly stubborn and because I just couldn't see going to law school after the experience of creating beautiful things out of thin air.Since then I've lit concerts and countless plays, designed whole city blocks worth of lighting for movie premiers and street parties, done a little TV here and there, gutted moving lights to see what's inside, run teams of technicians and designers, managed sales departments, worked as a specification agent, started and sold a manufacturing business and now I'm changing the way the industry works through my new firm ILC Studios. And I love it.I approach lighting technology and the construction industry with the same joy and passion that I've felt since that summer in undergraduate school when I discovered you could make magic with light.