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United States

East Cobb, Georgia, United States

• Design and teach a 2D/3D digital art curriculum to K-12 students• Instruct students on traditional drawing and mixed-media fundamentals.

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

For Sephora Universe, Emirates MIRA, and Atlanta Braves Digital Truist Park:• Lead creation of specialty emotes, interactions, locomotion, and other animations for use in all projects.• Establish pipelines to manage rigging and retargeting of all animation and avatar library content to new, high-fidelity Character Creator 4 skeletal meshes

Design branding and marketing materials including logos, banners, video thumbnails, menus and more• Leisure Time Cigars (FL) - created logo, website banners, popups, business card, etc. (2024)• Masterpiece Staircase (NC) - revised existing logo (2022) created new logo (2023)• Mental Healthy (VA) - created logo and designed YouTube thumbnail templates (2020)• St. Augie's Pizza (FL) - created logo and menu design (2018)

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

For Marvel's Hit-Monkey, Season 2:• Developed previsualized backgrounds based on concept art, indicating lighting and texturing.• Worked from storyboards to establish camera angles and character placements in 3D for shots.• Animated drone traffic and other 3D rigs for use in final compositions.

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

For Epic Games' Detroit Lab, Celebrity Cruise Wonderverse, Nissan Heritage Cars & Safe Drive Studio, Atlanta Braves Digital Truist Park, Mohawk Industries Virtual Showroom, Flipkart Flipverse, and more:• Created brand-new keyframe and motion-capture animations -including idles, emotes, dances, equips, facial animation, locomotion, and more- for all ongoing projects.• Built custom Control Rigs within Unreal Engine 5 that served as the sole animation solution for all forwards and backwards-solved animation in present and future avatar systems. • Work with vendors to establish motion-capture animation pipeline for both recorded gameplay animation and real-time demonstrations using Unreal Livelink.• Collaborated with game developers, sound designers, and artists to sync animations with interactions, audio, and effects for use in gameplay, cutscenes, and marketing materials• Managed the organization, migration, and retargeting of all animation libraries across multiple projects and skeletal meshes.• Updated animation blueprints and procedure documentation as necessary.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Gave animation demonstrations, assisted with lectures, and offered personalized feedback sessions with students outside of class hours.• Designed, maintained, and moderated all class social channels.• Worked on cleanup and color, rough animation, and storyboard draw-overs for student films created in class.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Welcomed incoming and prospective students during SCAD Day Open Houses and SCAD events. Promoted school programs, resources, clubs, and values both on and off the clock

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Provide assistance and information to freshman, transfer, and graduate students on orientation weekends, encourage involvement in extracurricular clubs and events, and serve as a mentor for students in first-year experience classes

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Directed, assisted, and tutored high school students seeking early college credit on-campus for summer courses and activities.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Animation, 4.0

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Game And Interactive Media Design, 3.9

Summa cum laude