Experience

• Environment Artist at Naughty Dog

  Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

  March 2021 - Present

  Collaborate with Material Artists, Lighters, Tech Artists, Engineers, Designers, Audio and Animation to create breathtaking worlds for PlayStation 5 and PC games. The Last of Us Part 1 released on 09/02/2022.

• Senior Technical Artist at Agora Studio

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  February 2021 - March 2021

  Tech-art & optimizations for an unannounced project.

• Senior Artist at WEVR

  Venice, CA, United States of America

  January 2021 - February 2021

  Look-dev for an unannounced Virtual Reality experience.

• Lead Artist at WEVR

  Venice, CA, United States of America

  July 2017 - December 2020

  Lead all environment, prop, character and vfx artists; in-house, remote and outsource for Gnomes & Goblins a room scale VR experience created by Jon Favreau and Jake Rowell. Published 09.23.2020

  Look-dev and creation of environment models and materials, establish visual standards for the art team.

  Collaborate with Designers on world building and layout, final set dress of all game levels in UE4.

  Work with Production to determine schedules and delegate assignments.

  Identify, recruit and interview candidates across all art disciplines: environment, character, vfx, lighting.
  

• Senior Artist at WEVR

  Venice, CA, United States of America

  October 2016 - June 2017

  Look-dev and asset creation ramping up for the full production of Gnomes & Goblins, expanding on the art created for the Preview.

• Senior Artist at WEVR

  Venice, United States of America

  September 2015 - April 2016

  Designed, modeled and textured interior environments and props for Gnomes & Goblins. A room scale VR experience for the HTC Vive created by Jon Favreau. Released 09.08.2016.

• Art Director at aboutGolf

  Maumee, United States of America

  January 2011 - Present

  Formulate the concepts, designs, specifications and production schedule of all art assets including environments, props, characters and GUI; provide direction, critique and training to all art team members; consistently deliver visually cohesive products on schedule.

  Identify creative bottlenecks and determine tools and processes to reduce game environment production costs by over 50%.

  Evaluate and determine the use of Unity to make our entertainment initiative possible, leading to the release of five new titles within twelve months without engaging the development team.

  Continually head-up R&D efforts to improve our graphics features within our proprietary pipeline.

  Lead marketing initiatives with the concept and design of all promotional materials ensuring a high quality, consistent identity for our global market.

• Art Department Manager at aboutGolf

  Maumee, OH, United States of America

  August 2003 - December 2010

  Major contributor to the integration of the Emotion FX animation system into our pipeline, collaborating with in-house developers and the software authors, Mystic Game Development.

  Lead look-dev and collaborate with the development team to implement new rendering features including normal and specular mapping, HDR lighting, tone mapping, light bloom and glare.

  Manager and Art Lead for all environments, props, characters, animation, GUI and marketing materials for our first real time 3D PC game The Infamous 18.
  

• Lead Artist at Friendly Software Corp

  Maumee, OH, United States of America

  September 2001 - July 2003

  Establish the look of environments, characters, animation, GUI and marketing for the PC game ToonGolf.

  Collaborate with the engineering team to help determine the spec, establish the art to engine pipeline and build our proprietary real time 3D engine from the ground up.

• 2D/3D Artist at Friendly Software Corp

  Maumee, OH, United States of America

  September 1999 - August 2001

  Spearhead the migration of our studio from a pre-rendered 2D game engine to real time 3D.