Do I refer to myself as Greg, he or I? I'm not a writer. I don't possess the ability to put words together that will make people have a new found or deep understanding of something new. I can't connect with people on another level with words unless I were to yell profanity at them. I am, however, a creative person and I like to create things. Now that you know what to expect of my writing ability I will tell you, this is my Bio and these are facts about me.
I was born in Poteau, Oklahoma and I grew up partly in Arkansas and the rest in Oklahoma. I moved here to Dallas from a small town, I grew up in a small town and I have always wanted to move away from a small town. I have since come to realize that I don't like living in a City, as well as, I don't like living in a small town. Therefore, I am happy living in the middle, McKinney, TX.
I married young, my wife Carrie was only 16 and I was 18. We now have 3 children and we have been married for over 20 years. I began working in sign shops after high school and finally became a mechanic in a factory for over 4 years. I never was as happy working in the factory even though I made twice the amount of money over the sign shop. I decided I should pursue what I loved to do and go to college. I worked for a sign shop in Tulsa while I attended school. I graduated from Oklahoma State University - Okmulgee with a degree in graphic design. I graduated with 2 portfolios really, a design book and an illustration book. I received the Ackerman-McQueen portfolio award upon graduation and we moved back to Arkansas.
After graduating I worked for a couple of small design studios before I landed at Wal-Mart as an Art Director. For a couple of years, I worked in the Package Design International group. This gave me the opportunity to travel over-seas and work on a lot of large scale projects. Wal-Mart had some good points and it had some bad ones. I learned a great deal and that is all that matters. We decided we would finally move away from the small towns and headed for Dallas. I found a job with Fossil where I worked for over 7 years. I will always have a great respect for them and for what all they gave and taught me. I was a Sr. Art Director when I left to explore the world of advertising. It was then I became an Associate Creative Director for Ackerman McQueen and worked there for almost 2 years before the economy took a nose-dive. It was here that I realized that titles are just titles and I needed to really figure out what I liked to do, my feelings and what I should look for in my career. During this process I had a motorcycle accident that showed me I needed an evaluation on everything. I remember riding home and I awoke in pain at the hospital 4-5 days later. I still-to-this day do not remember being hit or the weeks that followed in ICU. I know we have all heard the saying it could be over in a second. I always thought yeah I know, when it's your time it's your time. I thank God that he gave me another second to figure things out. Now, even those small towns I wanted to get away from seem like they are a lot more important than I had ever realized.
Then the economy forced me to start working for myself and I had always wanted to do tattooing. I finally could get that going. Some of the clients I have done work for in the past and present are Dickies, Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, Verizon, Baylor Medical Center, Chickasaw Nation, Diesel, Adidas, JCPenney, El Monterey, West Coast Choppers and Buckle just to name a few. After I had left AM for 6 months I came across One Fast Buffalo and it felt like all the places I had grown up in, but it was all wrapped up in a business. It struck me odd to be able to work somewhere that made me feel like home. I don't know anything about reading the stars for future guidance or my palm for life decisions but I do think that I am here at OFB because of fate, whatever that means. I feel like I am where I was meant to be and I am happier and more creative than I have ever been.