Experience

• Principal Character Artist at Volition

  Champagne, United States of America

  June 2023 - Present

  Worked as the Principal Character Artist at the studio. Setting the quality and creative standards for which the studio would be known for in regards to character art.
  
  Created production pipelines for the character department and subsequent related disciplines to facilitate speed and quality of all character related assets created.
  
  Mentored and taught all Senior and Junior character artists on production methodologies and proper game development practices.
  
  Lead several strike teams on look development and the creation of style guides
  
  Worked along side Art Direction and Design to help in conceptualizing future ideas for projects (Characters, Clothing, Hair, Weapons, etc...)
  
  Worked with Art Management on setting up proper production workflows, and created and maintained interdepartmental communication to insure workflows were implemented.

  Shipped Titles:
  
  - Saints Row 5: DLC Sunshine Springs
  
  - Saints Row 5: DLC Doc Ketchum's Murder Circus

• Senior 3D Artist at Wizards of the Coast

  Bellevue , United States of America

  November 2022 - April 2023

  Working as a senior 3d artist on undisclosed project.

• Instructor at Academy of Art University

  San Francisco, United States of America

  September 2021 - Present

  Teaching courses in game design and fine arts principles. Courses such as 3D character modeling and 2D Tools for Game Development.

• Senior 3D Artist at Demiurge Studios

  Cambridge, United States of America

  March 2021 - October 2022

  Working as a Senior 3D Artist creating and implementing 3D assets for UI/UX, Environments, and Characters. Work consisting of 3D modeling, texture authoring, material creation, animations, and FX's work for Top Level CCG. Working side by side with designers and engineers to help create feature implementation pipelines along with R&D.

  Shipped Titles:
  
  Blizzard Entertainment: Hearthstone Battlegrounds
  
  Created new game features for Major and Minor monetization.
  

• Assitant Professor at Becker College

  Worcester, United States of America

  September 2019 - Present

  Teaching advanced techniques in 3D modeling and character creation, as well as game theory and design methodology.

• Character Artist at ZERO VFX

  Boston, United States of America

  January 2020 - February 2020

  Contract work on undisclosed project.

• Senior 3D Character Modeler at Happy Giant

  United States of America

  September 2018 - Present

  Creating and optimizing 3D character/creature and prop models using a variety of industry standard software.

  Shipped Titles:
  
  Dragomonz AR Battle by Spin Master
  
  Untamed - Madlab AR by WowWee Group Ltd

  In Progress Titles:
  
  Sam & Max VR "This Time Its Virtual"

• Environment Artist at ArenaNet

  Bellevue, United States of America

  September 2016 - September 2018

  Creating props and environment assets. Map building which consisted of terrain creation and texturing, prop placement and set decoration, lighting and atmosphere effects, pathing and working alongside designers for the creation of gameplay spaces.

• 3D Concept/ Prop Artist at Lunchtime Studios

  Shrewsbury, United States of America

  May 2013 - November 2015