Key Skills and Responsibilities• Oversee all hiring and staffing of art resources within the studio.• Direct art development across multiple locations.• Represent the art discipline in studio management group and participate in strategic decisions on resources, project directions, studio health and culture initiatives.• Direct style guides, technical documentation, asset creation pipeline explorations and visual targets to uphold product and IP pillars.• Partner with Production and Design leaders to disseminate game design visions, product goals, and set visual standards across teams.• Collaborate with Engineering leaders to ensure art assets and features achieve visual target and technical objectives for products.• Work with the Design leaders and influence game designs based on Art capabilities and capacity.• Conduct quarterly evaluations, compensation and bonus reviews, promotion recommendations, career development and performance management for direct and roll-up reports.• Operate as the art point of contact at studio for central UX design, licensor relations and marketing teams.• Partner with other art directors within the company to share knowledge and workflows to improve efficiency.• Propose and manage external art budget for the studio.• Direct the vetting, contracting and on-boarding of external development teams.• Provide high level reviews, critiques and approval of art.• Influence and enforce best art practices across studio.

Projects• Dungeon Keeper Mobile (2014)• Ultima Forever (2013)• Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (2012)Key Responsibilities• Served as Art Director for Free-to-Play Warhammer MOBA (Wrath of Heroes) and 2 incubation mobile projects based on EA IPs.• Collaborated with Studio Art Director to define visual styles and production plans for Ultima Forever and Dungeon Keeper Mobile.• Created style and technical documentation for animation and VFX.• Liaised with Engineering and Design teams to identify and address cross-discipline dependencies.• Provided art direction for internal and external teams across different art disciplines.• Forecasted and tracked art outsourcing budgets for studio.• Negotiated pricing and engagement terms with external vendors and freelance artists.• Architected and executed external partner onboarding and training process.• Prepared asset submission deliverables for licensor approval.

Projects• Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Lead Animator (2008)Key Responsibilities• Scheduled and tasked in-house and external animation teams.• Defined scope and work briefs for external partners.• Provided animation direction and final asset approvals.• Created in-game animations, provided rigging and skinning support when needed.• Polished external animation deliverables for game integration.

Projects• Sid Meier’s Civilization: Revolution (2008)• BioShock (2007)• Sid Meier’s Railroads! (2006)• Sid Meier’s Civilization IV (2005)• Sid Meier’s Pirates (2004)• Sid Meier’s Civilization III: Conquests (2003)• Sid Meier’s Civilization III: Play the World (2002)• Sid Meier’s SimGolf! (2002)• Sid Meier’s Allen Crossfire (1999)Key Responsibilities• Collaborated with animation team to define animation styles and workflows in pre-production.• Provided animated proof-of-concept mockups and prototype art support.• Provided animation direction to internal and external teams.• Created in-game animations, provided rigging and skinning support when needed.