Experience

• 3D Content Manager at Meta

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  August 2021 - Present

  The AI Reverie team was provided the amazing opportunity to join the Meta family to help bolster their efforts in building the next generation of VR hardware. While here, my focus has been on establishing art processes, pipelines, spec, and budgets in an engineering-heavy team structure, as well as working cross teams providing art direction and guidance for a number of projects.

• 3D Content Manager at AI Reverie

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  October 2020 - August 2021

  I was looking for a new challenge and some highly respected former team members needed my help in establishing a pipeline, production standards, and artistic feedback when building procedurally rendered synthetic data for a wide variety of clients, from Frito Lay to NATO.

• Art Director at Bossfight Entertainment

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  September 2018 - Present

  I relocated back to Austin to lead and empower the art teams working on two titles, providing art direction, development process, and optimizing pipelines to align with production goals and publisher feedback.

• Art Director at Bossfight Entertainment

  McKinney, TX, United States of America

  August 2016 - September 2018

  As Art Director at Bossfight Entertainment, I work closely with other department leads to oversee the production of, as well as create, artwork for a new intellectual property. In doing so I have to be multifaceted, often overseeing art creation, art feedback, Jira and Confluence organization, as well as pipelines and schedules for both our in house and outsourcing teams. These tasks include organizing standups, creating production schedules, creating asset writeups with technical specifications, collecting reference, creating various templates, compiling animation information, designing art creation strategies, and contributing to the modeling and texturing efforts. My primary goal is to create an efficient art team where everyone can grow to their full potential while creating exciting and engaging entertainment.

• Art Director at Spacetime Studios

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  November 2015 - April 2016

  As Art Director at Spacetime, I was accountable for managing art needs for our live franchises as well as overseeing the art development of new intellectual properties using both internal and outsourced resources. My art team and I work closely with all stakeholders including leads, design, project management and tech to deliver art with an appropriate aesthetic sensibility and with quality levels that delight our players; all on time and within budget.

• Art Lead, Live Games at Spacetime Studios

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  September 2014 - November 2015

  As Art Lead, I supported live franchises (7) and was accountable for delivering art needs with both internal and outsourced resources. I work closely with all stakeholders including franchise leads, design, project management and tech to deliver art with an appropriate aesthetic sensibility and with quality levels that delight our players, all on time and within budget. I also contribute to projects in development whenever possible.

• Senior 3D Artist at Spacetime Studios

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  April 2011 - September 2014

  - Created both Environments and Characters using 3ds Max
  
  - Fully conceptualized, modeled, textured, rigged and exported characters
  
  - Modeled, textured and lit indoor and outdoor environments

• 3D Artist at KingsIsle Entertainment

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  October 2010 - May 2011

  • Created both Environments and Characters in 3ds Max
  
  • Fully conceptualized, modeled and textured NPC characters
  
  • Using a graph paper map and concept art; modeled, textured and lit interiors

• Environment Artist at Retro Studios

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  October 2008 - October 2010

  Fully conceptualized and constructed over 11 game levels
  
  • Constructed numerous animated gameplay objects
  
  • Worked in proprietary world building software daily to light and populate levels
  
  • Coordinated changes in level collision and audio tagging of the player path
  
  • Contributed to the concept and construction of 2 template levels that determined the final visual style of those game worlds