Driven & Co.

Dean Heckler, founder and lead designer at Heckler Design, joins host Justin Gray in this episode of Driven: How Did I Get Here? Dean explains what drove him to shutter his software development company to pursue a passion in industrial design. What did you want to be when you grew up? From the earliest I can remember my dad always brought computers home. We had some of the earliest computers. So I was just spoiled with computers early on and I think that influenced my decision to stick close to technology. At some point in high school I thought architecture would be a good career path, but I heard a lot of horror stories from folks a few years ahead of me. So majored in business and graduated with a couple business degrees right in the middle of the dot-com boom so I was thrust right back into technology  I worked for a software company out of college doing early virtual reality.  How did you get that position? I knew someone there, and that person knew that I was savvy in technology and graduating