Jeff Olin is a graduate student at Alfred University in upstate New York, studying Glass Science & Engineering. He was introduced to chainmaille in late 2003, and took a keen interest in it. He has learned many weaves, primarily thanks to the generous knowledge base on the internet.

Jeff wanted to contribute to that knowledge base, and made his first tutorial for Captive Inverted Round in the summer of 2004, using (somewhat out-of-focus) photographs of his 'foldover' method. Encouraged by the positive response, he began to make additional tutorials. Jeff liked the clean appearance of tutorials that used CG images rather than photographs, so he combined his interests in computers with chainmaille, and began using the program Maya. This allowed him to design tutorials that were both in focus, and detailed enough to easily follow the construction of the weave.

Jeff has steadily advanced his proficiency with Maya, and now produces high quality, photorealistic maille graphics. He continues to donate his time to the maille community by offering free tutorials that are helping maillers all over the world learn new weaves and techniques.