Experience

• Senior 3D Character Artist at Big Huge Games

  Timonium Maryland, United States of America

  July 2018 - Present

  Unannounced Project- Senior Character Artist- Responsible for creating high-fidelity character sculptures and their in-game low polygon versions. Texturing and material execution for characters and creatures. Posing and rendering characters for UI\Marketing materials. Rigging and animating when needed (biped).

  Dominations (Mobile, Free to Play Historical Strategy, 2015) - Senior Character Artist- Responsible for creating high-fidelity unit\ vehicle sculptures and their in-game low polygon versions. Texturing and material execution for units and armored vehicles
  

• Principal Character Artist at Robot Entertainment

  Plano, TX, United States of America

  March 2009 - March 2018

  Orcs Must Die! Unchained (PC and PS4, Action Tower Defense, 2017)- Principal Character Artist- Responsible for creating high-fidelity character sculptures and their in-game low polygon versions. Texturing and material execution for player characters and creatures. Art directing and scheduling, helping the character department operate smoothly. Recognizing team member's contributions and taking action on their concerns, regularly and during annual reviews. Communicating with the concept, design, animation, and production departments ensuring the deliverables and mesh needs are on target. Responsible for organizing Robot's character deliverables to and interfacing with our outsourcing partners.

  Echo Prime (iDevice and PC, Action, 2014): 3D Character Artist- Created both high and low fidelity in-game character and weapon assets

  Orcs Must Die! 2 (PC, Action Tower Defense, 2012): 3D Character Artist- Created both high and low fidelity in-game character and trap assets

  Orcs Must Die! (Xbox 360 and PC, Action Tower Defense, 2011): 3D Character Artist- Created both high and low fidelity in-game character and trap assets
  

• 3D Character Artist, Campaign Art Lead at Ensemble Studios\ Microsoft Game Studios

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  March 2003 - March 2009

  Halo Wars (XBOX 360, RTS, 2009): Campaign Art Lead- Led a small team of artists in creating the single player campaign assets. Helped develop the pipeline for destructions and unit attachments. Organized the character artist department. Created high-fidelity and in-game buildings, units, single player in-game asset needs

  Age of Empires III (PC,RTS, 2005): 3D Artist- Modeled and textured buildings, characters, and various campaign objects
  

• 3D Character Artist at Retro Studios\ Nintendo

  Austin, TX, United States of America

  December 2000 - March 2003

  Metroid Prime (Gamecube, Action, 2002): 3D Character Artist- Modeled and textured characters: Samus Aran (all of her armor suits), her Morph Ball form, her ship, the Metroids, the Space Pirates, and many other various creatures. I also textured all of her arm cannons.

• 3D Artist at ION Storm

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  January 1999 - December 2000

  Daikatana (PC, Action, 2000): 2D-3D Artist- concepts, modeled, and textured assets as needed. Created many in-game cinematics using in-house tools

• Artist, Associate Producer, Designer at DreamForge Intertainment

  Greensburg, PA, United States of America

  February 1995 - December 1998

  Artist, Associate Producer, Designer working on many projects. This studio gave me my start within the video game industry upon my graduating from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

  TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter (PC, Action, 1998): Associate Producer, Lead Designer, Artist- Presented the prototype to TNN in Nashville and to Realtree Outdoors in Atlanta

  Sanitarium (PC, ADV ’98): Concepts, 2D Artist

  WarWind 2- Human Onslaught (PC, RTS, 1997): 2D Artist- Illustrated concepts and painted\ animated in-game units, vehicles, terrain, portraits

  WarWind (PC, RTS, 1996): 2D Artist- Illustrated concepts and painted\ animated in-game units, vehicles, terrain, portraits

  Chronomaster (PC, ADV, 1995): 2D Artist- Painted character portraits

  Anvil of Dawn (PC, RPG, 1995): 2D Artist- concepts, story boards. Also rendered and animated in-game creatures, NPC’s, spells, weapons, furniture, objects, etc. Fully illustrated the clue book insert art