Thomas Vanek Email & Phone Number

Homer, AK, US

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

• Shipped 10+ titles for Oculus Quest 2 as Creative Director
• Responsible for guiding the visual design and art production for all VR projects
• Directly managed an art department of several artists to achieve cutting-edge visuals
• Responsible for the design and direction of VR projects with budgets up to $300,000
• Reported directly to COO and CTO to establish budgets and timelines during production

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

• Modeled, unwrapped, and textured high-fidelity assets for use in real time VR applications
• Leveraged Unity to create dozens of high quality environments for industrial training programs
• Optimized assets to target standalone VR platforms, particularly the Oculus Quest 2
• Utilized Unity Shader Graph to find unique solutions to in-engine visual challenges

Cook Inlet, AK

I worked as a deckhand on a commercial salmon fishing boat each summer between 2009 and 2021. My duties involved setting the net, icing fish holds, and cleaning the deck. This job taught me about communication with others and how to handle myself under stressful situations. The maintenance required for a boat on a daily basis taught me much about.

Bellingham, Washington Area

Education record

Intro to Maya, ZBrush for Concept and Iteration

Education record

Computer Science, A

During my Junior year of high school, I took CSCE 201, Computer Programming, at the local community college. The course was composed of.