Responsible for managing the organizational design and sustainable growth of the studio. Ensuring Gardens can live up to our values with a healthy culture, responsible management structure, and an iterative mindset for our studio as well as our products. Overseeing the smooth running of day to day operations while making sure the studio infrastructure is aligned with long term strategic goals and growth plans.

After 20+ years of working in creative roles, I decided to take a deliberate 2 month break before shifting gears into studio operations and leadership.

Building up an art department with the belief that having diverse perspectives in an inclusive team environment is key to better creative decisions. As a studio art director, I feel strongly that leadership is responsible for providing clarity of process, structure and direction so individual artists can have greater creative freedom and ownership. It is my goal to foster a team environment where artists of different experience levels and craft disciplines can all learn from and inspire each other (It is possible and it feels great!).

Making fun stuff on games and Steam. Most recently Half-Life: Alyx

Worked on Firewatch from day 1 preproduction all through supporting post-ship. Primarily responsible for 3D environment art, but wore many other hats. BAFTA winner for Best Debut Game

I was the lead artist on Ron Gilbert's The Cave. My primary responsibility was figuring out the production workflow of all environment art and to create all the base zbrush rock modules. I was also the principal level artist for 6 out of 12 levels, and created the lighting for all but one level. The game shipped as a downloadable title for Xbox360, PS3, PC/Linux/mac and Wii U. I also led the art effort to optimize our art assets for the later inhouse ios/android ports in the first half of 2013.During Aug-Nov 2013, I was on the Broken Age team doing character/cutscene lighting and also assisting painters with the export and scene issues.

I worked as one of two environment artists for the Stacking, the digital title that won X-Play's best downloadable game of 2011 (now on XBLA, PSN and Steam).Earlier in 2010, I created the battle arenas for the award-winning (yay!) Costume Quest; 2008-2009 I was working on the fantabulous Brutal Legend. Artists at DF all wear very many hats. Besides doing a crap ton of environment modeling, I have lots of experience in the art-side implementation of our foliage sim, fur layout, climate and lighting systems, cutscene lighting.Besides creating environment art, I am also the point person for art memory and optimization, and frequently work with our programmers to diagnose and work through performance issues.

I was a senior artist at Spore. I was part of the small seven person Rig Block team. I was responsible for modeling, texturing, rigging and some animating of both procedural and static models.I created fully deforming parts in Creature Editor and Building Editor; most of the static art assets specific to the Tribe game and Creature game; some static plantery objects; collectible objects in Space; underwear for aliens... etc etc.

* Godfather (ps2/xbox)* Key member of the art team since Day 1 of pre-production * Leading a group of close to 20 model / texture artists * Responsible for setting up world modeling standards, guidelines and procedures * Overseeing the technical approval process for world assets * Prototyped modeling and texturing methodology for a new open streaming world pipeline * Designed the directory structure for world assets with the technical art director

* Return of the King (ps2/Xbox)* Prototyped, modeled and textured the 3D “tower” frontend * Modeled and created textures for level art throughout the game * Created the maps for the Prima strategy guide