Experience

• Assistant Teaching Professor at Drexel University

  Philadelphia, United States of America

  September 2019 - Present

• 3d Artist at DreamLine

  Warminster, United States of America

  June 2018 - September 2019

• Contract Senior Environment Artist at Bluepoint Games

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  January 2017 - September 2017

  • Collaborated with the Environment Art Lead and Art Director on the overall visual look for a section of the game world that maintained the layout of the original game while bringing in new, unique environmental design elements
  
  • Transformed the visual quality of the original game by combining the modification of existing terrain assets with kit bashing in my section of the game as well as a few other areas
  
  • Used proprietary tools to create both layered and decal material types
  

• Adjunct Professor of Game Art and Production at Drexel University

  Philadelphia, United States

  September 2015 - June 2018

  • Teach and mentor students in a variety of subjects related to game art and design
  
  • Use existing syllabi as a guide to creating updated curriculum for classes
  
  • Courses taught: 3D Modeling & Texturing I and II, Introductory Game Design, Experimental Game Design

• Blogger/Features Editor at Gametextures.com

  Philadelphia, United States of America

  November 2014 - Present

  • Write and edit game development articles on the Gametextures.com blog page

• Contract Technical Director (Unreal Engine) at VaynerMedia

  New York City, United States of America

  August 2016 - October 2016

  • Worked with a small team to create a Youtube 360 video for a client using Unreal 4
  
  • Directed other artists on best practices for working on assets designed for Unreal
  
  • Set Dressed, lit, and set up scenes to render out an animation to be composited with live action footage
  
  • Rebuilt the Stereo Panoramic Capture plugin for Stereo Rendering, then implemented a non-stereo panoramic capture solution in late production to speed up render times
  

• Contract Environment and Technical Artist at Psyop

  New York City, United States of America

  May 2016 - August 2016

  • Worked with a small team to create a YouTube 360 video for a client using Unreal 4
  
  • Developed multiple shaders and materials achieving desired visual fidelity while maintaining an artist friendly workflow.
  
  • Modeled and textured environment assets and set dressed two of the three environments
  

• Freelance 3D Artist at Boss Key Productions

  Philadelphia, United States of America

  May 2015 - May 2015

  • Modeled and textures environmental assets under the direction of a senior artist for LawBreakers

• Freelance Weapons Artist at Human Head Studios

  Natick, United States of America

  July 2012 - September 2012

  • Created two weapon models and associated textures for use in Defiance
  

• Freelance 3D Artist at Self Employed

  Philadelphia, United States

  November 2013 - June 2018

  Model and Texture Artist
  
  • Motion Logic Studios • Two Bit Circus LLC
  
  • Hero4Hire LLC • Zero Transform LLC
  
  • Ironbelly Studios • Hangman Digital
  
  • PolydigitalSE • Digital Armada
  
  • Endless Pools
  
  Environment Artist
  
  • M2M Studios • Koda Labs/MTI Games
  
  • The University of Oklahoma K20 Center • Arch Virtual
  
  Lead Artist and Consultant: PVP Heritage

• 3D Artist (Temporary) at WB Games: Turbine

  Needham, MA, United States of America

  May 2012 - July 2013

  • Modeled and Textured assets in a variety of styles and technical constraints for Infinite Crisis, Lord of The Rings Online, and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
  
  • Created assets for use in Infinite Crisis’s unique destruction system
  
  • Investigated a graphical anomaly that changed the art style in Infinite Crisis.
  
  • Was an environment artist on the pre-production team on a cancelled title
  

• Environment Artist (Contract) at SIE Bend Studio

  Bend, OR, United States of America

  October 2010 - October 2011

  • Built a number of lush environments for a key launch title for PlayStation Vita under the direction of senior artists
  
  • Hand modeled terrain in Maya and used proprietary tools for population, material creation and export
  
  • Optimized existing PlayStation 3 assets for use in game