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Bellevue, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

● Defined the visual identity for mobile games, creating a cohesive art style and clear guidelines that resonated with the target audience and market trends.● Established and tracked OKRs for the art team, aligning creative goals with company objectives to ensure measurable impact and consistent progress.● Streamlined production pipelines, introducing efficient workflows and leveraging tools like AI to enable faster iteration and scalability.● Partnered with cross-functional teams, including product managers and engineers, to align technical tools and pipelines with artistic goals.● Partnered with leadership to align the art direction with business goals, contributing to key decisions on product development and branding.● Directed the creation and integration of assets, ensuring they were optimized for performance across devices without compromising quality.● Balanced hands-on creative work with strategic planning, thriving in a fast-paced startup environment with limited resources.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

● Became the first art hire at the company, building the art team from the ground up and shaping the creative foundation for the studio’s success.● Built, hired, and mentored a team of artists, fostering collaboration and ensuring high-quality results that aligned with the creative vision.● Managed outsourcing efforts, collaborating with external studios and freelancers to meet deadlines and expand the team’s capabilities.● Delivered engaging art for live operations and marketing campaigns, including event visuals and user acquisition assets that stayed true to the game’s brand.● Developed quality assurance processes and led reviews to ensure artwork met technical and artistic standards.

New York, Ny, Us

● Create Art Design Docs with market research to help drive the look and feel of Co-Dev projects.● Work with partnered studios on the visual look of games including UI/UX, animations, characters, key art, marketing, and other art assets.● Supervise and approve work completed by artists, co-developers, and outside vendors.● Ensure that all art is delivered to the game in accordance to the requirements of the project.● Partner with Creative Director/Producers to define and prioritize tasks.● Work with Product Team on creating CPI/ASO testing for future projects.● Provide artists with clear communication, leadership, and process to produce art assets.● Process and circulate client feedback to the team with quick turn around.

New York, Ny, Us

● Led the overall visual style of multiple projects for Marketing and UA campaigns.● Helped assemble a Creative Team that quadrupled the creative production within a year.● Drove the creation of ASO and A/B testing including icons, app store screens, and Facebook ads.● Created assignments and task distribution with JIRA tracking/scheduling.● Provided mentorship and constructive feedback to Creative Team artists.● Managed art tasks with outside vendors for LiveOps and Community.

Seattle, Washington, Us

● Led the overall visual style of projects from a design and illustration standpoint and provided necessary artistic guidance with critique/feedback to artists.● Oversaw the delivery of tasks from the illustration team and is accountable for the quality of final work while making sure that deadlines are met.● Concept, illustrate, and storyboarded for animations and video production projects.● Was a vital part of leads/manager meetings to facilitate higher level project scheduling.● Led the overall visual style of projects which included components of animation, UI, characters, icons, logos, etc. and provided necessary artistic guidance with concept art, style guides, and feedback to other artists.● Managed a team of illustrators including performance tracking and development.● Helped to set artistic direction for unannounced games by working with internal and external studios to execute the visual look and feel.

Redmond, Washington, Us

● Worked with a team of artists to create high level application concepts for use on the Hololens.● Participated in concept meetings with leadership for the user-experience with Hololens applications.● Helped with the creation of hero images for concept pitches to upper management.

Redmond, Washington, Us

● Worked with a team of Concept Artists to create characters, weapons, clothing, structures, and a variety of other props that match the look and feel of Project Spark. From simple silhouettes, to line art, to final render.● Created turnarounds that gave 3d artists the information they need to successfully build in-game assets.● Worked with designers to create fun and unique content to be released in future downloadable packs.● Created marketing images used for downloadable content.

Redmond, Washington, Us

● Worked with a team of artists to create conceptual art for Project Spark.● Created illustrations and model turnarounds to be made by 3d artists.● Conceptualization and ideation of characters, creatures, buildings, weapons, and other props.● Created marketing images for promotional use on social media and gaming news websites.● Helped design the look and feel of the Project Spark E3 2013 booth.● Gave constructive feedback on 2d/3d assets that were Outsourced.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

● Used Unity3d to develop levels for unannounced projects.● Concepted and prototyped environments for multiple projects.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

● Modeled, UV, and Textured environments for multiple platforms.● Fully lit levels using Vertex Lighting/Lightmaps.● Created realistic high-resolution textures (PS3/360) with normal maps, and specular maps.● Created low-resolution, hand painted, textures for handheld and mobile devices.● Managed outsourcing of environment art on multiple projects.

● Designed and created website layouts for social-gaming website.● Prototyped social-gaming chat program interface.

● Developed 3d assets for an unannounced MMORPG using the Riot Engine.● Created concepts for characters, environments, and structures.

Seattle, Wa, Us

● Worked closely with Designers on enriching levels with static 3d props.● Modeled and textured various items, weapons, and armor.