-Always working towards a new level of excellence and efficiency.

-Exceptional time management skills as well as a keen understanding of the production pipeline and a practiced process for avoiding problems and setbacks.

-Purposefully surrounding myself with talented individuals to further improve in all areas of expertise.

HPe 3rd Party Contract - HPe Environment Artist - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

-Built full environments for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, including texture sets, props, lighting, fog and performance.
-Managed and critiqued environment and prop work of other artists to push a consistently high bar and provide feedback on other artists work.
-After building highly detailed environments, completed perf work on levels, hitting a 60fps standard on Xbox and between 200 and 300fps on a high end PC.

HPe 3rd Party Contract - Environment and Prop Artist - TF2 Training

-Built a collection of in-game props and environments using existing TF2 textures for the Team Fortress 2 training update.
-Built levels independently in Hammer Editor in a very limited time frame and received feedback that the levels were 'shippable' by Valve standards.

HPe 3rd Party Contract - Prop Artist - Shipped

-Built a collection of in-game props for Left 4 Dead 2.
-Received very positive feedback from Valve and developed a continuing relationship with the company.
-Of the contractors, was given responsibility for many of the higher end props as well as maintaining quality control to ensure contractor props met art style.

HPe IP - Environment and Prop Artist - Shipped

-Built 6 level environments for XBLA release Defense Grid and 4 level environments for XBLA map pack release Defense Grid: Borderlands.
-Collaborated with team members to develop high quality environments in a small timeframe and with many technical constraints.
-Developed lighting, atmosphere and unique worlds for each environment.

Senior Graphic Design Artist / Manager

-Managed all print and copy orders for a wide range of customers and a variety of publications.
-Expert experience with publishing software such as the Adobe Suite, Macromedia Suite, and Microsoft Office Suite as well as web coding in HTML, CSS, and Flash.
-Managed and trained multiple employees on printer and software usage.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Production Animation

-Classes included ‘Modeling for Animation’, ‘Problems in a Production Pipeline’, ‘Advanced Modeling’, ‘Personal Projects’, ‘Team Projects’ and ‘Advanced Animation’.
-Expert/advanced experience in 3d Studio Max, Mudbox, Zbrush and Adobe software.
-Experience with Mental Ray, Zbrush, Maya and Bodypaint 3d.