Founded and manage the amateur and professional game artist community know as Polycount.My duties vary with the day but generally center around the business administration and general creative direction for the community. The community can be found at www.polycount.com.

Worked on the Alien VR project that's currently in development. Specialized in creation simulations for the various weapon and weather effects. Also responsible for the majority of the world setting dressing effects and implementation

Worked on Population: One, a VR Battle Royale shooter.

Helped to build Population: One, a VR shooter

A contract position where I was tasked with bringing their current effects and shaders up to visual parity with previous titles within the newer engine requirements. I also placed existing and new particle effects for all the new tracks and features across older tracks; rain tracks.

I participated on the VR game "Jump"; a real world scale platforming game where you are tasked with navigating a city's rooftops with super powered jumps. I concepted and built all the maps for the game's recent DLC. I'm part of a circle of developers that assist the Endeavor founders with their projects on a per project basis. Steam page for the game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/334410/

I helped design and develop the effects pipeline from day one to ship. This included custom data assets to allow the design teams to use the effects assets easily without much technical knowledge.I concepted and built the majority of player and NPC combat effects. In the third and fourth years, two additional effects artist were hired and used my initial concepts and effects as the basis for all their own work.Responsible for all iconic brand character effects such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. We had a full set of effects for these characters when they are used as NPCs as well as another set when they are used by players in arena combat.I concepted and developed all PvP effects for arenas as well as open world for use by players; PvP flags, control points, etc.Worked closely with all other production teams; art, design, UI, animation, and programming through out the project to solve various issues and goals throughout the project:- identifying the sorts of messaging the design team needed FX to communicate on a per case basis;- working with programming and other technical artists to design and implement the effect pipeline; importing of textures and geometry, efficient shaders, customization of the existing tools for specific needs, planning effects memory tools and systems;- assisted designers in concepting, implementing and iterating on player and NPC abilities within the game tools and database;- concepted and built all in-game UI elements such as Power-Ups, Loot, PvP, Collection and Quest baubles;- often worked with animators to advise on specific technical and design issues, often on the larger boss fights of the game;- worked with the environment team to the extent that I trained some of them in basic effects work as related to their own goals so that they could take over that work for themselves.

Built a number of ships, buildings and player assets across all the published expansion packs and most content patches.Responsible for world-building on several planets/zones and dungeons, including lighting with a full day and night cycles, terrain design, city and dungeon layouts.Became involved with environmental effects early on. Took over environmental effects full-time along with my world-building duties. I was responsible for all effects, both player and environmental, in the last published expansion as well the reboot of the game's combat design and player experiences in the Spring and Fall of 2005 respectively.

Investigated and implemented next generation and existing engine technology for an unannounced MMO game; working title was "Good Life" Responsible for the architecture and object art pipeline through pre-production; I built and placed everything in the environment for the game that was not outsourced. Rebuilt a five square mile section of San Francisco around the Palace of the Arts for the initial demo work for the game. Started up and managed an outside group of artists to produce assets for the project.

Directly involved with the game designers on game flow, building/level and environmental design.Designed and built all of the architecture in the game while involved with the project. This included design, construction, lighting, technical set-up and exporting of buildings and their various assets.Concepted and produced a majority of player and vehicle weapon effects, as well as all vehicle and building destruction effects for the game.

Provided recommendations on Caligari's Gamespace product line with regards to amateur developer community reception, including pricing and feature set.

Provided feedback to id about the state of the user community on abilities and toolsDesigned a directory structure and name system for packaged assets that was adopted by id Software for themselves at the time.

Specializing in 3D design visualization. Assisting with all stages of design production and development. Also heavily involved in assisting the IT and marketing department with numerous specialty projects.