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San Francisco Bay Area

Overseeing day to day operations of "Void Interactive," while collaborating with executive team establishing the vision for new projects and creating short-term and long-term strategic goals. Furthermore, managing timelines for achieving commercial outcomes and prioritizing company projects, managing studio budgets and assisting in making strategic financial decisions toensure the health of the studio. Additional responsibilities including but not limited to:-Ensuring that all products meet the highest quality standards and align with the studio's brand and vision.-Identifying new business opportunities, partnerships, and collaborations to grow the studio and its portfolio.-Identifying and addressing weak spots within the company's structure as well as potential risks to projects.-Helping to define and foster the company culture.-Leading department heads and ensuring alignment with the studio's vision and goals.-Collaborating with HR to hire the best talent globally,-Working with marketing teams to promote the studio’s games, managing public relations, and representing the studio as a whole.

Danville, California, United States

Freelance creative director and consultant for game studio startups as well as AAA projects.1st/3rd person, shooters, horror, action-adventure

San Ramon, California

Game Direction and supervision of all creative teams over the course of the 3+ year development of the project. Including Narrative, Concept art, Character art, Animation, lighting and VFX. Met weekly with these teams to help guide the design process and uphold the artistic standards of project. Furthermore in my role I conceptualized and directed all gameplay animation as well all the cinematic work within the game. My additional focus as CCO included that of the studio’s image and the narrative that "Striking Distance Studios" as a company wanted to tell and the values which were upheld on a day-to-day basis.

Bend, Oregon

As Senior Director I directed and managed both the cinematics and gameplay groups, bringing with me a significant number of AAA developers to help elevate the game overall. With limited time left in the production cycle, I worked diligently to edit and refine all work done prior to my arrival to ensure a strong story, compelling main character and a solid ship date in 2019. Additionally, I brought new processes and practices, helping streamline pipelines to make the team more efficient for future projects.

Work experience on the cod franchise includes directing all on stage performance/motion capture for “COD Ww2” “COD Advance Warfare” and “COD Modern Warfare 3.” Having had the experience directing best of class Hollywood talent such as “Kevin Spacey” and “Josh Duhamel.” In addition to serving as the onstage Director and choreographer for all our cinematic and performance scenes, I also have had the pleasure of directing and coordinating some of the industries best stunt talent to execute best of class action sequences. Furthermore when not on stage I am on site supervising and directing a team of upwards of 20-30 animators to build a exciting and dynamic gameplay and cinematic experience unlike any other. All while working with design and narrative to deliver on what can only be a AAA Call of Duty franchise game.

Redwood City, Ca

Was one of the original Creators of the “Dead Space” franchise on which I was the Senior Animation Director, directing and supervising all stage motion capture and performance capture. Additionally responsibilities included supervising my team of animators on site to maintain quality and continuity. Furthermore I served as the hand key animator for all of the “paired kill” and “Isaac Death” animations by which the game became well known. I was nominated for an ANNIE award for this work, and won a NAVGTR award for “best in game cinematography.”I also served as the Animation Director on Dead Space 2 prior to my departure preceeding the ship date. Leading up to that I served as The Animation Director for many of “Vicerals” film license games during that time period. These including the Lord of the Rings franchise games “The Two Towers” and “Return of the King.” While on the LOTR franchise I worked closely with my animation team, directed the on stage mocap talent (same stunt teams as the film) and collaborated with New Line Cinema and Weta Digital in maintaining continuity between “Game” and “Film.” Also during my career at EA I was the Animation Director of “Godfather 1” and “Godfather 2.” During this period I was fortunate enough to work with the likes of “James Caan,” “Robert Duvall” and “Marlon Brando.” Additionally I animated key scenes, supervised an on-site animation team and Directed all on stage motion capture.

Redwood City, California

During my time at Crystal Dynamics I was a senior animator or animation lead on many titles during my 5 year career. These titles included “Gex 2,” “Gex 3” “Mad Dash Racing,” “Blood Omen,” “Akuji the heartless,” “Disney Racing Tour.” My responsibilities ranged from animating characters and sequences, working with design, and building and texturing main characters , creating 3d stills for magazine covers, and pretty much anything else needed during the course of development.

Orlando, Florida

Served as 3d animator and generalist while working on several PlayStation 1 launch titles as well as working in partner with 3d realms on Duke Nukem 3d.Job included real-time modeling , texturing and hand key Animation on a multitude of characters ,vehicles and props. Also produced rendered stills for marketing and advertising opportunities.

Minor, Photography

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Computer Animation