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Promoted to Assistant Team Lead of the VFX departmentOnboarded new members to the team and incorporated them into current projectsCreated and assigned tasks to the team in order to meet project milestonesOrganized tasks using management software like Trello and NotionReview performance and quality of assets created by my team members

Developed Particle effects using Unity's Shuriken and VFX GraphUpdated scene lighting for different times of dayUpdated Hologram assets to use our new shaderJoined into weekly meetings and work sessions with the team

Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States

● Integrate customer goals and budget with NKBA guidelines to design effective, safe kitchens● Use 2020 Design® software to produce realistic design mockups and revise design specs● Maintain multiple customer designs and orders using pipeline management software

Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States

● Assembled online orders for wide range of products across entire warehouse in timely manner● Coordinated with supervisor and associates to effectively divide and prioritize department tasks● Separated, prepared, and palletized large orders for contractor pickup using heavy machinery

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Managing a team of Artist with directions, vision and priorities of AssetsDeveloping Visual Effects to enhance and stimulate the environmentModelling 3D Models for characters and the environment based off of Concepts and Art Style

Worcester, Massachusetts

JumpStart Triage 3D Modeller/VFX ArtistWhen I was assigned as an artist for the JumpStart Triage team it taught me how to work on a serious game. This was different from the usual games for commercial entertainment that I was used to working on. My modeling skills weren't drastically affected besides adapting to working with a different team and how our pipeline was set up. I was assigned to concept what our 3rd incident would be and from the different concepts I created, the team chose a gas leak at a school dorm. I got feedback from more veteran interns on the project about what our limits were for a new setting and was able to come up with an idea that everyone was satisfied with. However, since triage was a simulation to train first responders, I felt limited about how my visual effects could be implemented in a more realistic setting without being over-stimulating. With that in mind, my lead gave me liberties on effects. I found niches to use my skillset and made the simulations feel more alive by using the strengths of the setting. I created a few steam effects to give the still setting movement. The addition of a simple water dropping effect allowed the showers of the dorm to feel as though they were recently used, right before the incident.

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

JumpStart TriageAfter developing some models and visual effects, I grey boxed our 3rd setting in order to get an idea for the size and feeling for the map. Our idea for a 3rd setting was to be a in a college style dorm that recently had a gas leak incident. Using current assets as grey boxing materials, it assisted in getting a feel for what assets we were missing to fill the setting and be more realistic for a simulation. This allowed not only myself but my coworkers to have more tasks to model and texture more objects. The feedback of what we have so far for our college dorm based map, was mostly positive with small adjustments that were required as most were pleased with the progress so far. During the COVID-19 Outbreak, working remotely on this project has required my team to adapt our meetings as online only. This has caused issues in communications but we managed to adapt by using online sources to stay in touch and have calls.

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

JumpStart Triage3D Artist/DesignerWorking on MassDiGI’s JumpStart Triage during my last semester of Becker College gave me a rounded knowledge of the different facets of an art pipeline in the Games Industry. As I previously was accustomed to only providing art assets to art leads or designers, to then being an acting art lead thinking about an art style or tasks, to when I eventually worked on Triage for asset implementation and designing. Having to deal with problems for each of these positions throughout my college career helped round out my experience.As problems came up in the development process of too many assets being on standby for someone to implement, and then too many people working in the same scene that eventually led to wiping out some of my progress on our third map. These problems resulted in volunteering myself as the designated person to implement assets from my art team, thus improving our art pipeline and preventing future problems. Some road bumps did occur as I haven’t had much experience in my new role, but with help from my art lead, I had improved my communication in the form of updates or assigning tasks based on what our map needed. While on the side I continued to model assets and be apart of the beginning and end of the art pipeline.

CyberDrive 2077 August 2019-December 2019VFX Artist for the Mobile Endless runner

Worcester, Massachusetts

Assisting students to prepare their resumes for employers. Aid advisors with guiding their students.

Boston, Ma