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Los Angeles, California, US

Planned big-picture goals and coordinated the tasks required to achieve them. Served as the voice of reason to maintain healthy project deliverable deadlines.Oversaw hiring of TAs as well as mentoring and educating them in advanced TA principles.Worked closely with Technical Director, Engineering and Graphics devs to advance our tools and.

Los Angeles, California, US

Developed interop pipelines between Maya, Unreal, Substance and Photoshop. Implemented comprehensive validation tools (Unreal Validators as well as DCC specific validation tools). Implemented various C++ module utilities to aid the python pipelines.Implemented unittesting framework for our python tools. Drove data-driven tooling and asset management.

San Francisco, CA, US

Oversaw the hiring of several Tech Artists to bolster the TA team for the company's rapid growth.Architected and implemented the Maya to Unity content pipeline.Added numerous tools and utilities to aid artists and level designers in their work.Educated and guided newer team members in the ways of Kung Fu (oh, so you read this far?)- I mean all things game.

San Francisco, CA, US

Implemented a full Maya to Unity content pipeline utilizing streaming sockets via TCP allowing Maya artists to see their updates with the push of a button.Implemented numerous quality-of-life tools for the artists in Maya and Unity as well as content validation tools to improve content reliability. Contributed to documentation as well as to educating.

Redmond, Washington, US

Hired and managed junior technical artists. Supported the FX team in all areas of development. Troubleshoot and debug FX pipeline problems. Write and troubleshoot HLSL shaders. Set up animations, vignettes and scripts for FX events. Collect and inspect performance data using PIX. Investigate areas of performance problems. Automatically monitor and validate.

Cupertino, California, US

Anthropological studies of maniacal geniuses in their native habitat. Surfing.Other things I can't tell you about.

Redmond, Washington, US

Maintain and develop FX content pipeline in Unity. Manage outsourced FX content.Integrate FX Content into Photos app.

Redmond, Washington, US

Support the FX team in all areas of development. Troubleshoot and debug FX pipeline problems. Write and troubleshoot HLSL shaders. Set up animations, vignettes and scripts for FX events. Collect and inspect performance data using PIX. Investigate areas of performance problems. Automatically monitor and validate artist-generated content.

Redmond, Washington, US

Support the FX team in all areas of development. Troubleshoot and debug FX pipeline problems. Set up animations, vignettes and scripts for FX events. Collect and inspect performance data using PIX. Investigate areas of performance problems.

Redmond, WA, US

Support the FX team in all areas of development. Troubleshoot and debug FX pipeline problems. Set up animations, vignettes and scripts for FX events. Collect and inspect performance data using PIX. Investigate areas of performance problems.

Reykjavik, NA, IS

Design/implement/maintain pipelines for art assets. Implement custom nodes for Maya using Maya Python API. Created plugin for interactive building creation in Maya. Implement and maintain pipeline for assets used for Enlighten interiors. Implemented remote Enlighten build system. Refactored old MEL code into Python. Developed scheduled content and DB.

San Diego, CA, US

Served as weighter, LoDer and tools programmer to the Character Content team. Developed remote queuing system for the texture baking process. Developed a tool to translate Maya shader networks into XSI to decrease rendering times and increase quality of diffuse/normal/atlas/specular/ambient occlusion burns. Developed an auto-LoDer tool for Maya. Provided.

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Seattle, WA, US

Focused mainly on the effects of 9-cis-retinoids on the biochemical pathways of the visual cycle. Codeveloped compounds with restorative properties applicable in the treatment of genetic and degenerative vision disorders. Patent coholder for the use of these compounds. Additionally, experimented with rAAV gene therapy rescue of visual functions in mouse.

Bs, Cellular & Molecular Biology, Chemistry

Gaming

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