About

Rusty grew up out West, mostly bouncing between his family homes in the San Fernando Valley, the Los Feliz area, next-door to Hollywood, except for a four-year adventure during high school years when his single father moved the family to Las Vegas to pursue greener pastures for his piano teaching and photography business dreams. Rusty’s dad was determined to make a better life in one way or another and Vegas seemed like a good move.

This move had some unforeseen repercussions for the family, but it was mostly positive for Rusty — it exposed him to a major change in environment, local culture, economic adversity, and all sorts of things that probably never would have happened had they stayed back home.

Rusty ended up going to a vocational technical high school just outside of Vegas proper, which had programs in auto mechanics, paint and body, construction, culinary, computer science, electronics, beauty/cosmetology, telecommunications, and aircraft servicing. His high school had its own airstrip and helipad, along with a satellite uplink.

Rusty had always loved computers, electronics, and technology. While those had a stronghold on his desires, he elected to take the telecommunications path in this school, which was a fancy name for a “media” program. It included photography, audio and video engineering and production, and some of the other roles that go with all of those, like lighting for sound stages, video journalism, camera operation, editing, and computer-generated graphics. So it was three years of immersion in all of the things that fascinated his mind, and tugged at his heart.

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