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Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

Project: Unannounced-Managed, mentor and led the tech art team-Worked closely with both art and dev teams to accomplish the best artistic quality and performance,streamlining the workflows and pipelines across teams.-Profiled and analysed performance and memory. -Led the team to optimise a AAA game, hitting the target framerates with enough breathing room for battery and temperature management.-Orchestrated and managed the technical art documentation. serving a set of user guides and technical guides for every team to use.-Always keeping up industry trends and state-of-the-art.

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Project: Legends of the Metaverse. (Unreal Engine 5).-Determined the technical guidelines for the art department in Unreal Engine 5. -Created and optimized shaders using the Material Editor and HLSL. -Profiled and optimized the game performance. -Developed pipeline tools for UE5, Maya, and Blender using Blueprints, Python, and PyMEL. -Develop game logic with Blueprints and C++.-Fed the internal documentation.-Drove the project optimization and art best practices project.-Debugged the project packaging and identified multiple bugs.-Created and implemented the skeletal meshes pipeline, and tools (Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine).-Trained a group of artists around the needs and technicalities of the following challenges.

-Designed and implemented workflows for the teams involved.-Set the requirements, plan and scheduled the projects.-Tech and Art R&D.-Led the team to deliver in time with the highest quality.-Assisted dev and art production when needed.-Project manager of the 2 main IPs.1 new product developed and delivered successful to date. (Oculus Quest 2 using Unreal Engine 4)1 new full version in development (Oculus Quest 2 using Unreal Engine 4).

-Led the team to reach the production goals within the timeframe.-Managed, supervised and polished internal and outsourcing art.-Created 3D and 2D assets-Designed UX and User InterfacesSuccessfully shipped the flagship product to PC, PC-VR and Oculus Quest 2.Product manager the main IPs. Deployment to Oculus Quest 2 and PC.

-Create 3D and 2D assets-Design UX and User Interfaces-Supervise and polish outsourcing artSuccessfully shipped a VR experience for a Fortune 500 company, shipped 2 platform ports from Oculus Rift to Quest and supported the team with multiple production tasks, involving concept art, production art, engine setup/tuning and gameplay development.

-Illustration-Concept art-Character art-3D modeling and texturing for realtime engines.Clients such as Hihime Casino, DoReality, UbiQuid, Linea Interactiva, Tres31, Mentor, etc.

Rionegro - Antioquia, Colombia.

-Lead Researcher in the GEAV division (Visual Arts Research Group)-Fine Art Lecturer-Art History Lecturer-Transdisciplinary Lecturer-Art and Design Coach

Medellín

Classes taught:-3D Modeling-3D Animation-Drawing-Digital Tools - Adobe Illustrator-Image Treatment - Production-2D Animation - Production-Videogame Production-Visual Effects and Portability in Videogames-Videogame Preproduction-Programming Logic-Textures and Materials-Video Editing

Rionegro, Antioquia

Promoted the training, management and application of CTeI y TICs within the municipality.Fomented, advised and empowered multiple companies and institutions from creative industries.Managed the infrastructure of the PVD Lab Rionegro, facilitating 20+ face-to-face courses, 10+ workshops and 4 events.

Medellin

Succesfully redesigned the user experience and the user interface for the main software, implementing all the previous features and adding new ones.Guided the design team to reach the goals and trained them to reach the desired skillset.Created 500+assets for the company (graphic desing, art and multimedia).

Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia

Advised and guided 10+ projects of tech basis, reaching a competitive industry level and beaking out in the industry.Taught 12 courses to apprentices of the network TecnoParque and SENA.Made multiple prototypes constantly probing the global industry standards and tech in order to transfer the knowledge to the advised projects.Supported the team with technical art production.

Maestro En Artes Plasticas (Ba), Artes Plasticas (Fine Arts)

Activities and Societies: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Video, Art History and Theory.

Artist, Fine And Studio Arts

Activities and Societies: Drawing, Painting, Composition, Sculpture, Art Theory.