Rocket League & Rocket Racing- VFX, map optimization, shader optimization, outsourcing support.

- Supporting students and professional individuals with critiques, feedback and technical assistance related real-time VFX - specializing in resume enhancement, portfolio reviews & demo reels- Mentoring and tutoring students all over the world via discord.

VALORANT - Riot Games- Working as a external partner, embedded on the Valorant VFX Team & Content teamResident Evil 4 - Capcom/Oculus- Tasked with the role as lead/mentor for the environment VFX team- Responsible for 62 of the 108 levels in the game in addition to other duties- Updating task spreadsheets as the team finished their levels.- Maintained training documentation for on-boarding of new VFX team hires- Authoring of performance compliant shaders for Android - Supported the Environment team as needs were requested. - Worked closely with engineers on their needs and gameplay requests

Ark Survival Evolved: Aberration / Extinction / Genesis / PixArk - Responsible for VFX on creatures, weapons, environments and seasonal events - Authoring of shaders for post process and FX - Responsible maintaining destructible assets and their memory optimization - Working closely with gameplay engineers on their needs and requests - Supporting art team with UI icons and HUD elements for various gameplay scenarios. - Maintaining documentation and best practices for the FX Team - Responsible for optimization of meshes using Simplygon for art assets

DC Universe Online- Episode 29 - Riddled with Crime - Episode 28 - Age of Justice- Anti-Monitor Anniversary EventAdditional Player Power set- Worked with design to created 24 different unique abilities in 3 months for the Water Powers- Maintained documentation of the FX pipeline using modified Unreal 3Loot Crates- Improved the Auras & Vinyls master shader to allow for greater customization with 3 textures.

Shadows of Colossus Remake- Worked with the graphics engineer design the particle system tool- Responsible for maintaining the initial documentation of the particle system conversion from Unreal to the Bluepoint Engine. - Managed another FX Artists initially with assistance from Lead Artist.- Used math expressions and algorithms to drive the particles and their behaviors

Contract work-for-hire on these games using either Unity and/or Unreal- Omni VR Arena: CES Demo (6 months)- Five: Guardians of David (1 year 4 months)- Space Hulk (1 year 5 months)- Offensive Combat (5 months)- Kung Fu Superstar (1 year)

Star Citizen - Created FX for environments, planets, spaceships and holographic displays- Worked with and trained external studios with CryEngine particle system- Assisting marketing with screenshots, trailers and other media needs.

Wizard101 & Pirate101- Created FX for character abilities, environments and scripted events using GamebryoMOBA prototype- Created FX for various character, environment and world events using Unity.

Faxion Online- Created over 250 spell & ability attacks for each of the 6 player classes- Created all of the FX for Environments, raid arenas, holiday themes, special events.- Responsible for all marketing game trailers which were edited in Premiere/After Effects - Responsible for marketing screenshots and point of sale advertising.

Star Wars: The Old Republic- Created environment FX on 12 planets - Created various holograms and UI animations for both scripted events and environments

Brothers In Arms: Hell's HighwayAliens: Colonial Marines

Hour of Victory- Responsible for gameplay design of single player levels- Implemented game menus using Unreal 3 UI editor.- Created FX for guns, bullet impacts, steam,, blood hits, sparks, etc.- Responsible for FX of scripted gameplay sequences

- Continuing Education: Intro to Maya Fundamentals- Intro to Maya, Advance modeling in Maya- Unreal Tournament 2004 Level Design & MOD creation.- Game Design Workshop: Intro to Unreal Engine 3 using RoboBlitz.- Game Design Workshop: Intro to 3dsmax for game creation..

Ultimate Duck Hunting- managed 4 artists & 1 Level Designer.- Developed tutorials for importing models and textures into Torque Engine.- Modeling & texturing outdoor environment, created UI and menus - Designed and maintained UltimateDuckHunting.com

- Developed interactive cdrom presentations for new clientsCreated game trailers for - Terrorist Takedown- WW2 Tank Commander- Kart 2005 Racing