Miguel Cortez Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I am continuing to work in the Vehicle Art Team, working with Deltagen for Data Prep, Maya and 3Ds Max for Hard Surface Modelling and Unity for Real-Time Rendering. I have looked to honour my career progression by thinking outside of the day-to-day tasks and finding any room for improvement, be it within my own or my team’s workflow or the tech innovation at ZeroLight. This involved testing new technologies, onboarding teammates and integrating new techniques into the workflow.I was able to further streamline my team’s workflow in order to fit into tighter deadlines whilst maintaining the same level of quality. I am very proud to admit that my collaboration with the tech team proved very successful in developing new tools that add value to our client’s projects.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Being promoted to Vehicle Artist has always been a dream of mine, accomplishing it was a huge milestone!During my time as a Junior Vehicle Artist I was added to a large 20+ asset project that I had become familiar with during my time as a QA Analyst. My experience with the Quality requirements and knowledge of the client helped me greatly, to ensure my work met the quality expectations. While working in the Art team I learned a suite of new tools such as Deltagen for Data Prep and Unity for Real-Time Configurators. I continued to communicate directly to clients, assisting the Project Manager in every meeting where insight into the Vehicle Art Pipeline was necessary.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

While in the capacity of QA Analyst I was tasked with testing the content for 2D & 3D visualisation configurators for the automotive industry. Most prominently I was responsible for a large project of 20+ assets which involved managing the QA estimates, timelines and priorities, helping with training team members and communicating directly with the client(s). In order to better perform my duties, I requested to be part of any relevant client meetings in order to understand the expected level of quality, utilising this knowledge proved key in reporting issues before they reached the feedback stage, thus helping to streamline feedback rounds and project management time.I went on to use Jira to establish a pipeline using methods and workflows that I gathered from previous QA work experience and Confluence to document any and all knowledge for sharing within both my team and the business as a whole, such as creating test strategies, technical documentation, etc.

Lincoln, United Kingdom

- L.A. Noire Remastered (Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Playstation 4) [November 2017]- L.A. Noire The VR Case Files (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR) [December 2017]- Grand Theft Auto Mobile Titles (Android, IOS) [2018]- Grand Theft Auto Online: After Hours DLC (PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4) [July 2018]- Grand Theft Auto Online: Arena War DLC (PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4) [December 2018]- Rockstar Games Launcher (PC) [September 2019]- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Xbox One, Playstation 4) [October 2018] (PC) [November 2019]

Oeiras, Portugal

Managed projects, provided assistance to clients, designed brand guidelines, developed designs, edited, integrated 3D into and post produced videos.

Oeiras, Portugal

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Games Art, First Class Honours

I joined Teesside University’s Computer Games Art Degree to achieve my life long dream of working in CGI, creating immersive.

2D & 3D Animation Technician, 15

Activities and Societies: Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special EffectsEQF Level IV Professional Certification.