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Roswell, Georgia, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Modeling and texturing environment and prop assets using a PBR workflow within the Unreal Engine. Working with and without concept to create engaging, moody environments. Acting owner of several areas of the game as well as offering mentorship and feedback for colleagues.

London, Ontario, Canada

Modeling, texturing, and lighting environment and prop assets using a PBR workflow. Asset implementation using Tactic's proprietary Immortal Engine, offering feedback along the way to enhance our visuals and optimize our various workflows.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Modeling, texturing, and lighting environment and prop assets. Personally handling all aspects of the environment assets from concept to export into the Glitch game engine or Unity, depending on the project.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Modeled and textured environment and prop assets for fictional and real-world race tracks from around the world. Took on the role of Track Lead during my contract, adding the responsibility of porting an older track to the new game and raising the visual bar along the way.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Receiving skeletal animation generated from the Kinect sensor and cleaning the animation during the problematic frames. Promoted to Assistant QA Lead, adding the responsibility of evaluating thousands of clips under strict guidelines.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Modeled and textured environment and prop assets for fictional and real-world race tracks from around the world. Other tasks included LOD creation, up-resing old textures, and general bug fixing.

Roseburg, Oregon, United States

Creating ads for the daily newspaper in Roseburg, Oregon. Worked closely with the sales staff & customers to insure successful ad creation for the product or company. Responsibilities include newspaper layout & Ad placement.

3D Computer Animation, Art

Education record

High School