TIMES UNION

> In 2008 Jeff was promoted to Advertising Pre-press Manager in the Times Union's advertising art department... When he's not drawing, Jeff is playing with his kids and cheering maniacally for his favorite baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Family vacations often include side trips to National Parks for bird watching - Jeff having surpassed sightings of more than 400 bird species in North America. Bird watching is part research, part joyful diversion. That's the sort of balance Jeff seeks in work and play. It's a perpetual kid's prerogative... In his studio at home, where Jeff works late on illustrations while his family sleeps - it typically takes six months to complete the 20 drawings for a children's book - he always keeps the TV on. "I don't really watch it. I just put it o for company," he says.