Experience

• Senior Environment Artist at Possibility Space

  LA, United States of America

  January 2022 - Present

• Environment Artist at Insomniac Games

  September 2019 - December 2021

  Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  
  Spider-Man 2: (Unreleased)

• Environment Artist at Method EXP

  Santa Monica, CA, United States of America

  June 2017 - August 2019

  The Change, Internal Tech Demo (UE4: PC, VR, 2019)​ | Lead 3D Environment Artist

  ● Coached a small team of junior artists to ensure that environmental assets were made to the quality set by the Project Lead and AD
  
  ● Primary owner of all world building tasks including; greybox and composition design, per asset reference and direction, high > low poly models for
  
  assets, texturing of props and landscape surfaces, set dressing, environment master shaders, optimization and performance testing

  Robin Hood VR (Unity: Android VR, 2018)​ | Primary level owner and Environment Artist 

  ● Built all environment tiles and texture sets used across the project, including heavily optimized textures atlasses, draw calls, and point counts to
  
  enable high frame rates on mobile devices
  
  ● Designed a texture creation workflow to achieve a consistent look of stylized reality in the environment

  Curse of the Lost Pearl: A Magic Projector Adventure (Unity: Room-Scale Cooperative VR Experience, 2019)​ | Environment and Prop Artist

  ● Created hero and set decoration assets from concept and from whole cloth with minimal direction
  
  ● Created LOD sets for props and environment meshes

  Unannounced Project (UE4: AR, 2018)​ | Environment Artist

  ● Level owner of multiple areas of a real world environment on this unannounced title for mobile devices
  
  ● Recreated real world buildings and areas to a very accurate degree of detail while remaining within mobile specs
  
  ● Heavily optimized texture counts, draw calls, and shaders project wide

• Environment Artist at Strength In Numbers Studios

  Lansing, MI, United States of America

  July 2015 - September 2016

  Tuebor (UE4, PC, 2016), Loops of Zen (UE4, iPhone, Android, 2016)​ | Environment and Prop Artist

  ● Primary Level owner for several multiplayer environments, responsible for taking levels from design blockouts and concepts to final art
  
  ● World building and level design greyboxing, modular environment kits and trim + tile textures, high > low poly props and textures, set dressing,
  
  lighting, organic modeling, UE4 master material setup, and collision + performance optimization
  
  ● Worked with AD and Lead Artist to maintain art quality and environment optimization across multiple maps with unique modular sets
  
  ● Led junior artists, created asset tasks, and created technical and workflow documentation

• Environment Artist at Reactor Zero

  Ann Arbor, United States of America

  September 2014 - April 2015

  ● Sole environment artist on the project, responsible for all environment work and props, as well as particle FX and lighting
  
  ● World building, greyboxing, and design layouts, environment modeling, props, textures, and FX
  
  ● Developed and helped maintain a consistent style for environment

• Environment Artist at Reactor Zero

  Ann Arbor, United States of America

  July 2012 - February 2013

  ● Created 3D assets and environments for training tools and interactive engineering sandbox environments for defense clients
  
  ● Worked closely with programmers and designers to create environments and props
  
  ● Designed UI systems using HTML, CSS, and Photoshop
  

• Freelance 3D Artist at Panic DTW

  United States of America

  February 2013 - July 2015

  ● Used Maya and realtime rendering tool VRED to create renders of vehicles for clients like Polaris and Morgan Motors
  
  ● Created marketing and online configurator images for release of the Polaris Slingshot vehicle
  
  ● Worked directly with clients to create product renders and vehicle marketing images
  

• Adjunct Professor at College for Creative Studies

  Detroit, United States of America

  September 2016 - January 2017

  ● Created syllabus and instructional materials guiding students through creating production ready game environments using UE4
  
  ● Taught live demos with in person mentoring of student’s projects
  
  ● Introduced techniques for effectively planning and executing on complex environment

• Adjunct Professor at College for Creative Studies

  Detroit, United States of America

  January 2014 - July 2015

  ● Taught Introductory Maya courses focusing on 3D Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering, Rigging, and Animation