Manage a team of Technical Artists in creation of synthetic data for ML algorithm training and testing

Create and support synthetic data generation platforms for a variety of ML algorithm training initiatives

- Act as part of a core of 12 Irrational employees to launch a new studio whose goal is to create highly replayable narrative games with a small team size.- Create and maintain gameplay systems scripting (player actions, weapons, gameplay and level design support) using Unreal 4's Blueprint system.- Own quest & story delivery feature set & implementation and direct team of internal and external team members to implement missions and other dynamic story content.- Own character and animation pipeline. Work with both internal team members and external contractors to meet AAA quality bar needs, supporting through rigging and tools development where needed.

- Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to create systemic behavior for Elizabeth companion AI, including placed contextual opportunistic animation, emotion system, and additive audio-based animation system- Own animation content features related to Elizabeth character and act as animation point of contact for troubleshooting Elizabeth- Establish and support flexible camera and character cinematics pipeline- Act as part of the narrative team to create and maintain many narrative cutscenes throughout Bioshock: Infinite using Unreal's Kismet scripting system- Lead a team of technical animators to provide support primarily to animation, character, voiceover, and design departments- Establish procedural facial animation pipeline using FaceFX- Handle motion capture data and retargetting for in-game use

- Drive vision, create consistency, and manage production for a team of several character artists- Design character production pipeline and create tools to expedite production process during short production phase- Design character animation pipeline across MotionBuilder and Max

- Participate in most phases of 3D pipeline (modelling, texturing, rigging, animating) for pre-rendered and in-game cinematic sequences on a central group supporting all of Midway Games.- Help to establish internal pipelines quickly from project to project, and improve pipelines that already exist.

- Maintained character pipeline for detailed next-gen game- Created MEL-based animation tools for animators - Inherited and improved previous facial rig to improve performance, animator workflow, and iteration time

- Responsible for managing animation pipeline: seeing asset production from content creation to Unreal 3 Engine runtime, writing scripts to expedite animator workflow- Character setup: partially responsible for character rig, fully responsible for all weapons, vehicles, and world object rigging and setup- Help with character animation