Instructors

• Dan Bouweraerts

Born and raised in southern California, mostly in Santa Monica, before the BMW's invaded. Graduated Santa Monica High, Santa Monica College, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and University of Nevada, Reno. Started Teaching part-time at Santa Monica College in 1984, moved to Reno in 1987, and have the two most amazing daughters. One is up in Seattle cooking for a five-star restaurant, and one is attending Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage in outdoor leadership.

Have worked in the graphics industry for 25 years, taught at the community college level for 23 years, and actually love what I do. There is nothing better for me than standing in the classroom teaching, and there is no better place to do that than TMCC.

In my space time I do a lot of walking and hiking, I'm getting back into photography, I've written my first book, Introduction to Computer Graphics, and I'm blessed with a wonderful wife who also has two daughters, the oldest is at UNR in the nursing school, the youngest is at University of Arizona.



• Ron Marston

Self made millionaire, Ron spends his vast knowledge teaching Photoshop and flash to the blessed students of TMCC. He is one of several teachers who is adobe certified to teach Photoshop in the state of Nevada. Apart from rons teaching he runs and operates on of the largest model airplane companies in Nevada as well as consulting for various aeronautic firms.

Ron only works in the graphics industry our of pure pleasure, he has taught at the community college level for 10 years and enjoys every minute of it. For Ron there is nothing better than teaching young minds, and giving back to the community.



• Brian Wells

Acclaimed animator and videographer, Brian helps teach students at TMCC learn the basics of animation and shooting video. He has worked on anything and everything from Ren and Stimpy to Old Navy commercials. In his spare time he draws and spends time with his family. He also is still active in the animation community in Northern Nevada, consulting for commercials and web advertisements.

Brian is the newest teacher to reach tenure at TMCC within the GRC department. He is highly motivated and expects the same from students.



• Michael Granschow-Green

Michael is TMCC's Web Guru. He has mastered every dirty little secret in Dreamweaver, and loves to make websites explode and put them back together agian. He will show you the in's and out's of dreamweaver, HTML and all thing's CSS.