• Spearheaded the establishment of the Japan business from the ground up, developing a comprehensive business development strategy despite the absence of an established portfolio.• Successfully secured projects, demonstrating exceptional sales and negotiation prowess. • Instrumental in scouting and pursuing lucrative business opportunities, leading to significant company growth.• Played a pivotal role in expanding the team size from 3 to 50 members within a 2-year timeframe, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.• A founding member of the Japanese branch, with C-level transparency and presentation skills.• Effectively led the design team, encompassing design management, process management, recruitment, staff retention, and individual team structuring.• Devised innovative strategies to increase market penetration in both Western and local markets, identifying new opportunities, pipelines, and business models.• Widely recognized as a creative thought leader, actively involved in outsourcing, project management, delivery, and technical management.• Served as a quality control expert for projects, proactively measuring aesthetics against effectiveness to ensure consistently high-quality art deliverables.• Demonstrated exceptional financial acumen, creating business financial projections, pitch decks, and business plans to guide business unit direction.• Consistently delivered client projects on time, leading the most successful business unit within the company.• Successfully managed a diverse, multi-cultural team spanning Japan, the US, China, and India, fostering a cohesive and productive work environment.

• Orchestrated the development of a groundbreaking 2D-style 3D mobile game, spearheading a team of talented developers to bring the vision to life.• Leveraged deep technical knowledge to establish modeling workflows, 2D outline requirements, lighting, vertex color guidelines, and normal direction parameters, ensuring the game's technical feasibility and artistic excellence.• Exhibited exceptional leadership skills in fostering a collaborative and productive work environment, effectively motivating and empowering team members to achieve their full potential.• Demonstrated a keen eye for strategic opportunities, identifying and pursuing lucrative business ventures that significantly expanded the company's market reach and revenue streams.• Played a pivotal role in securing and managing key client relationships, consistently exceeding expectations and delivering exceptional results that have solidified long-term partnerships.

• Secured three long-term projects through networking and relationship building, expanding the company's client base and revenue streams.• Negotiated a 5% buyout of the company, demonstrating exceptional negotiation skills and contributing to a 150% revenue increase.• Provided ongoing account management services, ensuring client satisfaction, exceeding expectations, and securing long-term partnerships.• Planned project budgets, timelines, remuneration, software licenses, and hardware requirements, ensuring project profitability and cost-effectiveness.• Scheduled company development activities, including the creation of prototypes and portfolios, to effectively pitch to potential clients.• Analyzed project scopes, developing comprehensive backup plans and risk management strategies to mitigate potential challenges and ensure project success.• Mentored budding artists to enhance their skills and deliver work that consistently met client expectations.• Leveraged cultural understanding and Japanese standards to guide the team towards effective deadline adherence and artistic excellence, ensuring client satisfaction in the Japanese market.

- Created High Impact characters for Japanese movies/games- Interaction with US based clients to set up project pipelines- Implementation and usage of management methodologies like scrum.

- Delivered models and textures for many AAA games and hollywood movies- Screening candidate resumes for the initial round of interviews.- Scouting, Pitching for a project, both technically and monetarily to multiple clients.- Personal branding/PR management through various portfolio websites, industry events, networking events.

I was employed as an environment/3D artist at RED OCTANE, India, the makers of the popular Guitar hero series. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (PS3, XBOX360): Visited Vicarious Visions as an environment artist. Also involved in setting up pipelines to integrate smooth workflow. At Redoctane India, was involved in deciding quality of artwork, and work allocation.Worked as a texturing artist on an MMORPG game for an international clientAlso worked at Vicarious Visions in Albany, NewYork, for a period of one year as a part of a project