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Greater New York City Area

• Directed the Character Art teams through the creation of exceptionally high quality and realistic character models from concept to completion for various AAA open-world titles (Just Cause 4, its DLCs, and a new IP called Contraband). • Collaborated closely with Art Direction and Narrative team to establish the visualization and stylization of our characters. • Established and maintained the overall standard of quality for character development on the project (consistency of modeling, texturing, materials, in-game setups, and implementation of all character assets).• Regularly communicated with and provided feedback for both internal & external art teams (also gathered references & built briefs to complement and clarify concepts & art direction).• Collaborated with Production to develop & maintain an ongoing backlog with accurate time estimates. • Delegated tasks across the team. • Collaborated with Tech Art, Programming, and Animation teams to ensure models were performing at our target benchmarks (both visually and technically).• Defined reasonable tricounts, material counts, and texture sizes.• Collaborated with Programmers to establish a fully functional character customization system for our player system in Contraband.• Mentored and facilitated the professional growth of our team members.• Stayed up-to-date on best practices and latest technologies while working within limitations of the proprietary game engine.• Encouraged creativity and problem solving from all artists on team.

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw the development of all characters from concept to releasable on Just Cause 4. Applied artistic, technical, and managerial expertise to drive team success.• Directed and mentored a team of character artists, ensuring high-quality AAA content delivery with speed & good communication.• Managing day-to-day responsibilities including problem-solving, resource management, pipeline development, and R&D.• Accurately and consistently brought character concepts to life as high quality & realistic models, while maintaining continuity of vision & style of the project.• Facilitated career development of internal character artists across projects, and contributed to the hiring and onboarding processes.• Recognized as an excellent team member and problem-solver, which contributed positively to team dynamics and project success.

New York, New York

• Created high quality character models from concept to completion on the AAA title Just Cause 4.• Oversaw the full character production process from block-outs to final content.• Established & maintained character aesthetics throughout production, ensuring consistency and high-quality results.• Established pipeline improvements that enhanced quality, speed, and variety of characters.• Researched, built, and operated an in-house face scanning photogrammetry rig for use in the creation of wordsim faces, which significantly improved quality and speed of production faces for Just Cause 4 and Rage 2.• Guided & trained incoming artists, facilitating smooth integration into the team.• Collaborated regularly with production, animation, art direction, narrative, and technical direction teams to align on project goals.

New York, New York

• Collaborated in a small, interdisciplinary team to create art content for Just Cause 3 and its DLCs• Sculpted and painted terrain, and created and textured assets from concept to in-game placement.• Tested asset functionality, including collision setup, playtesting, and destruction.• Developed & dressed military assets & various locations, ensuring high-quality and realistic in-game environment

• Modeled and prepared character sculpts for 3D Printing to be included in the tabletop High Heavens, the Egyptian expansion, and Streets of Steel.

New York, New York

• Created characters for an immersive digital production of Anne Carson’s one-act play: “Krapp Hour.” • Modelled, textured, & integrated all 3D content, including 14 characters• Collaborated regularly with production, technical direction, and narrative teams

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Collaborated with a small team on an unannounced open-world AAA title, creating large level sections from foundation to final art.• Modeled & textured architecture, terrain, foliage, and props from start to releasable in-game content.• Set-dressed 3D environments with content. • Was responsible for basic shader graph setups.

Providence, Rhode Island

• Modeled, textured, & integrated character art assets for the MMORPG AAA title Kingdoms of Amalur. • Mainly responsible for 3D creation & integration of weapons and armor assets.• Concepted & designed weapons for production as well.• Adapted to the studio’s modified version of Unreal Engine for asset integration and optimization.• Re-modeled low-poly armor sets for various races, classes, and genders, ensuring consistency and quality across assets.

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• Illustrated three images for Author Jason Marchi's short story "When the Rain Stops." • Illustrated 14 full color images for an educational hardcover published children's book, "The Legend of Hobbomock the Sleeping Giant," by Author Jason Marchi.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Illustration

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