Supervising multiple teams of animators on the up-coming streaming series Sausage Party: Foodtopia!• Led and mentored the animation team in alignment with the Animation Director and Production.• Collaborated on the project's creative style with the Animation Director to maintain a unified vision.• Demonstrated exceptional leadership, collaboration, and communication skills to ensure task completion.• Delivered constructive and actionable feedback on animation and rigging assets to enhance their quality and effectiveness.• Reviewed and approved all production creative materials and managed deadlines to prevent delays.• Collaborated with and supported outsource studios to ensure they met the product's creative and quality standards, fostering a successful partnership.

• Managing high-end animation production, setting the standards and guidelines for show style and providing direction and mentorship to the animation team to execute the creative vision.• Provide daily feedback to animators via drawovers, recordings, demos, etc to improve artistic and technical performance.• Working closely with Pre-Production heads, providing feedback on storyboards, animatics, character design/rigs and layout to facilitate a collaborative effort to achieve the overall creative goals while meeting the parameters of production• Directing and performing in Motion Capture shoots, instructing in-house acting talent to acquire high quality performance data as a time/cost saving measure for performances/sequences where its most beneficial to the animators

• Working with other Lead Animator in overseeing the overall mentorship and quality output of the animation team while serving as the senior animator on key sequences• Interviewing and hiring talent, providing them instructional training in our pipeline, workflows, tools and show style• Determining Casting of animators to tasks and working directly with Animation Producer to ensure we're meeting our quota goals and providing artists with new challenges to acquire new skill sets• Provide daily feedback to animators via drawovers, recordings, demos, etc to improve artistic and technical performance• Working with the Tech team to advance development of new tools and scripts to provide animators a strong tool belt to help increase their output

• Primarily responsible for character animation • Secondary responsibilities included building initial layout, cloth simulations, and peforming in motion capture shoots as an actor• Post-season QC animation• Acting on bi-weekly feedback from Animation Director and Show-runnersAdditionally provided 2D Animation and asset contruction for 2D animated show, XRay and Vav Season 1

After-school Arts Program Instructor for particpating elementary schools in the greater Austin area

Here I mastered the fine and subliminal art of folding clothing

As the Visual Arts instructor at TexArts, I host classes instructing children (ages 5 - 11+) in multiple disciplines in art, expanding their knowledge of art techniques that they utilize in their personal art, school work, as well as in conjunction with the performing arts classes at TexArts