In 1996, I'd returned to Myrtle Beach South Carolina from employment in Decatur Illinois from which everyone had abruptly been laid off.  There was not much out there in the line of work, so the decision was made to return to college while dabbling with my PC & wanting to learn more.

In 1998 I graduated from Horry-Georgetown Technical College (H.G.T.C.) with an Associates Degree in Computer Technology.  The entire C.P.T. Faculty department was simply wonderful & cared a great deal about their work & students. They were very helpful whenever possible! Anna Gaskin especially, always giving her students a good 'kick in the butt' to help realize their potential!

     During the last semester, a final assignment was given in our website design class to create a webpage.  For an idea I decided that instead of a simple page, what better subject to choose than finding help in acquiring a job since I'd be graduating soon anyway!  So that's how LinkToJobs was born!

The site features comparisons & reviews to Salary guides, help with resume & cover letters, interview Q&A, employment search engines such as MonsterBoard.com, employment security commissions (SCESC), national newspapers, geared towards everyone from college graduates to people relocating, as well as many links right here in Myrtle Beach SC such as theSunNews, MyrtleBeachHelpWanted, technical colleges & the entire Grand Strand area including Surfside Beach, Little River, Conway, Pawleys Island, Litchfield, Georgetown, Garden City, Murrells Inlet & North Myrtle Beach.

     After graduating, I continued with work in website development.  All of the first sites were contracted out by Horry Telephone Cooperative (H.T.C.).  I created these sites as 'Infinite Visions.


     As everything rapidly progressed, it soon became apparent that my own domain was needed, but all the variations of Infinite Visions were taken, thus  InfiniteVision STUDIOS was born. The 'STUDIOS' represented the many different studios that were available to cover the wide range of services quickly coming into existence.

continued in operation where Infinite Visions left off in late 1999 only offering web development & simple graphic creations.  Hosting, digital graphics & basic search engine submissions were then added. An InfiniteVision STUDIOS website didn't exist, so a temporary 'website' was quickly added that didn't have anything at all to do with website development whatsoever, but instead featured a very humorous 1-page joke...

'Public Service Announcement'  (turn up the speakers!)

In April of 2000...H.G.T.C. hired me as a Computer Programmer in the Information Technology department. It was difficult, but I managed to juggle both careers for 3 years barely keeping I.V.S. alive.  During that time, I'd made some very special friends who, without their help & encouragement, I probably wouldn't be doing this today.  My very good friend Dianne Miles who also handled all the photography & restoration requests worked there as well.  We complimented each other very well, bouncing motivation & creative ideas around & continuously learning various techniques off each other. We make a great team & it shows in our work! She had unexpectedly & suddenly passed away August 2003...& tragic loss.

Another person well worth mentioning is Scott McLean, webmaster for H.G.T.C.  I'd learned a great deal from him & we still work together on projects to this day.

I can't forget my long time pal Tom Burke, who has been a good friend of mine since the Air Force days.  He hasn't really done a thing regarding this site or the business, but worth mentioning all the same! ;)  I can mention his site though...

During the spring of 2002, everything was becoming too hectic.  After returning to work after being out for 2 months for personal reasons, only reinforced my realization that I wanted to create websites full time!  I knew then & there I couldn't continue on with both careers...something had to go. My desire to pursue the growing web business was strengthening.

Shortly thereafter additional people have come onboard who have great expertise in their fields. Crystal Picano & Scott Mclean are wonderful team members who contribute a great deal to every project.



THE REST IS HISTORY!

March 20, 2002 was my official last day at H.G.T.C and my 1st day to live out my
'Infinite Vision' of fully pursuing my dreams!
Search engine submissions, Flash banners, Flash slideshows & 360° panoramas, photo enhancements, photo restorations, domain name registrations, maintenance/upgrades, digital photography, & more have all since been added!

Don't get me wrong, I was scared to death! Getting everything up to speed was very challenging to say the least...

...but I'm still here & so lives...

"It has always been interested & very exciting for me to be able to use my creativity & imagination to come up with new & unique ideas.   It's extremely thrilling to take a simple vision, born from just a thought, & carry it through from original concept to reality during the entire website development process.  Of course taking advantage of the dozens of tools at our disposal in creating a full blown site sure makes it a lot easier in making it all come alive! It's especially rewarding to see our customers' excitement the very first time they see their business turn interactive online!"