Jerry Willis graduated from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning with a Bachelor of Science in Digital Design. This program was one of two schools in the nation accredited to give a degree in Digital Design at the time of his graduation in 1999. The program was unique in preparing individuals for the emerging fields of website and CD-Rom design and development. A combination of a graphic design, user interactivity study, 2-d and 3-d animation and basic programming languages. The culmination of this curriculum is a designer that can think like and communicate with programmers, and who understands user interactivity. This was a 5 year program with 2 quarters of study and 2 quarters of co-op each year. Co-op starting in the sophomore year. The experienced gained from these internships were innumerable working in fields ranging from: illustration, animation, design, flash action script programming and more.