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Irvine, California, United States

Established original production processes for a start-up in collaboration with the Lead Producer, including pitching and iterating on user-friendly Jira workflows and automation.Produced multiple Art teams, Design teams, the Narrative team, Outsource teams and contract workers in tandem, working closely with Leads and Directors.Consistently ran risk assessments for my teams to ensure adherance to the production schedule, proactively solving problems with stakeholders involved, and successfully avoiding crunch.Suggested and implemented multiple cost-effective solutions such as Trello to resolve a lack of task management software until budget was resolved.Prosposed and organized 12 Post Mortems, mediating 6 of them, successfully navigated difficult topics while mantianing morale. The biggest takeaway was initiating workflow conversations and fostering healthy inter-disciplinary collaboration.

Bryan, Texas, United States

Managed, executed, and maintained art assets, file organization, task management, Discord bots, teamevents, and meeting notes.Worked closely with Subject Matter Experts, CEO, and Development Director on all aspects of educationaldeliverables, look, color, design, marketing, and student testing.Observed entire look-and-feel of games: including Creating large-scale art assets of backgrounds,characters, sprite animations, cut-scene animations, props, and color.Maintained an Art Bible and file organization, Created minigame visual flow-charts, and Oversaw theimplementation of art assets in-game.Met with team weekly on goals and adherence to the production schedule to ensure effectiveness.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

Performed the same responsibilities as Art Director Position

United States

Designed, Colored, and Labeled 50 multi-layered BGs for application in post-production tweening in After Effects.Tracked contractor’s shots, quarterly budgets, and organized shot filesEmployed Photoshop and 3D pre-Viz techniques. Roles also included short-term background aide for side projects and Vis Dev for project pitches.

College Station, Tx, United States

Co-Led as day-to-day lead, responsibilities included: onboarding interns, communicating needs and deliverables across teams, presenting ideas to SMEs and clients, task creation in Jira, and communicating time estimates to the Producer and upper management.Worked in mainly two game styles: isometric mobile game and a realistic-styled board game.Concepted locations, 2D shader mock-ups, characters, props, and art-styles.Participated in updating and maintaining an Art BibleParticipated in meetings for the Concept team, taking notes and translating needs to the team.

I create my own animated shorts for youtube, as well as maintain my own Patreon

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

Part-Time work, serves to boost my customer service abilities.