MJ Arts is an illustration and Code consulting business, established in 1998 when I left the Bureau of Buildings in Portland, Oregon. For 14 years I worked as a Building Plans Examiner, reviewing commercial and residential projects for Building Code compliance. Medical issues caused me to leave that career; and I began career #3, self-employed once again [Career #1 was the operation of a residential design and construction business. The economy of the early '80's devoured that career].