Co-founded and operate an AI-first games studio on a mission to incite the best stories in games.Busy building a new kind of life-sim built on top of the world's first Agentic Game Engine.Funded by a16z's SPEEDRUN, batch 1

As Chief Visual Officer, I reported directly to the CEO and CCO and collaborated on executive-level planning/strategy for the company. I was responsible for overseeing all things visual for our AAA UGC platform, Core, including all Environment, Character, UI, Marketing, Brand Partnerships, Outsourcing, and First-Party Development.As employee #1 and the founding member of the art department, I've helped scale the company to over 100 employees and directly oversaw a team of over 30 artists, designers, and contractors.I oversaw and directed the production of props, VFX, environment assets, and hundreds of avatars/cosmetics to fulfill our mission to deliver rich self-expression and identity in the Metaverse.I also worked closely with product managers on the design and implementation of creator tools/features to empower an ecosystem of on-platform UGC creators, which included voxel terrain editing, kit-bash modeling, smart-material system, character customization and general UI/UX for the editor. I also directly prototyped an experimental visual programming language written with modern web technologies that compiled to Lua.

I was brought into Zynga with the acquisition of A Bit Lucky in 2012 as part of their New IP division. At Zynga I art directed various titles including Solstice Arena, Empires and Allies, Mountain Goat Mountain, and an unreleased iteration of Farmville Next.Later I joined the R&D division which prototyped forward-thinking concepts including VR and experimental social games.

Founding member of the art department Created in-game, concept, and UI art content Aided the hiring of new art talent Managed, directed, and tasked the art team; in-house and outsourced Defined the visual style for all games Developed / streamlined the art pipeline to maintain consistent quality and fast turn-around. Wrote 3ds Max render scripts and Photoshop scripts Designed and prototyped proprietary art and animation tools to improve work-flow and aid future games development

Created in-game, concept, and UI art content Lead Artist on "Family Guy: Uncensored" for mobile and iPhone Supporting Artist on "Space Monkey" for iPhone Specialized in animation for in-game sprites. Ported all art assets for a wide range of devices and screen resolutions. worked closely with IP owners for licensed game content to maintain consistent quality. Defined visual style of games as Lead.

Created in-game, concept, and UI art content Specialized in tiled backgrounds/scenes for "New York Nights 2" Created polished game mock-ups to pitch prospective titles