Cat Daddy Games | Hybrid | 01/23–Present| Titles: NBA 2K Mobile, Unannounced Title

Realtime Motion Graphics & Visual Effects
• Becoming proficient in a proprietary engine, tools, pipelines, and techniques in 3 months and educating others in these topics within 7 months.
• Designing and prototyping shaders, textures, and meshes for in-game VFX and UI.
• Working with another VFX artist to exhaust the VFX and UI backlog.
• Producing VFX for 50+ collectible digital playing cards. Collaborating with visual and UX design teams to develop engaging, and impactful animation using a variety of techniques.

UI Development
• Using collaboration skills with design team to develop UI and VFX for 8 title updates across 3 seasons, and 7 unique game modes.
• Using animation and problem-solving techniques to develop motion graphics animation for UI across multiple aspect ratios, while staying performant on mobile devices.
• Working with engineering to champion best practices and tech debt clearing efforts.

Porting & Pipeline Prototyping
• Utilizing an ability to collaborate in an agile team leveraging platform expertise to provide technical guidance in prototyping and project development in Unreal Engine.
• Using interpersonal skills in mentorship and collaboration with team members. Providing hands-on technical support and techniques in Unreal Engine while encouraging exploration in emerging technologies and the sharing of knowledge and ideas.

Cat Daddy Games | Hybrid | 06/23–06/24 | Titles: Canceled Title

Outsource Leading
• Educating outsourced team on proprietary tech, source art handling, and pipelines.
• Creating conceptual and step-by-step technical documentation for pipelines, including future pipeline recommendations, technical considerations, and asset management guides.
• Collaborating with internal teams in scoping and scheduling tasks, investigations, and goals.
• Providing written and verbal feedback to outsourced partners in different time zones, who may speak multiple first languages, utilizing excellent ability to communicate.
• Maintaining project progress through strong organizational skills, addressing questions, proactively handling blockers, and ensuring a smooth workflow.

Porting & Pipeline Production
• Developing a holistic understanding of existing tech pipelines from examining assets.
• Applying technical expertise to prototype and create complex and efficient Unreal Engine 5 pipelines designed for long-term sustainability and multi-year projects while performing robust optimization to stay on platform performance targets.
• Using python scripting to develop efficiency tools, saving over 400 hours of manual labor.
• Employing a pragmatic mindset with research and strong problem-solving skills to resolve technical issues and reinforce pipelines in response to emerging weak points.

MedBridge | Remote | 02/20–08/22

Clinician Lecture, Patient Education, & Product Motion Design
• Collaborating with medical, graphic, and slide design teams to animate high volumes of motion graphics, under tight deadlines and staying within company quality standards.
• Participating in creative reviews and providing critique for designers and animators.
• Showing strong organizational skills while managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Acting as an approachable cross-disciplinary team member with excellent communication skills to designers, animators, editors, marketers, project managers, and post-producers.

Motion Graphics Template & Style Guide Creation
• Utilizing problem-solving skills and knowledge of industry trends while building solutions for motion graphics templates with a focus on scalability and consistent visual design language.
• Keeping a collaborative, curious, and flexible mindset when working with managers and project directors to create pipelines for the team, product architecture, and creative vision.
• Able to take project ownership from concept to production and work well under pressure.
• Writing style guides and training documentation for motion design workflows and tools.

Research & Framework Development
• Creating an animation pipeline allowing for 40+ videos to be produced in 3–4 weeks.
• Developing templates resulting in videos being completed in ¼ the original time estimate.
• Acting as a self-motivated fast learner who is highly driven to promote a collaborative culture across departments to rapidly prototype workflows, techniques, and visual styles.

Exato Games | Hybrid | 04/16–08/19 | Titles: Elo Hell / Echo Star

Rigging, Pipeline, & Tool Development
• Leveraging functional programming and game engine expertise for importing and implementing assets such as VFX, shaders, 3D art, lighting, and animations in Unreal Engine.
• Creating animation and rigging tools using programming skills.
• Debugging and enhancing, tools and in-game architecture.
• Rigging and animating characters, creatures, and mechanical hard surface models.
• Researching and developing facial animation automation and full-body motion capture solutions, including authoring technical documentation.
• Working with 3D modeling team to create documentation for workflows and tools.

Animation & Visual Effects
• Developing modular shaders for VFX systems and UI using computer science knowledge.
• Prototyping, implementing, and optimizing VFX systems, incorporating feedback from game design and art direction leads and playtesting sessions.
• Realizing camera work, choreography, and VFX in-engine.
• Providing approachable leadership in animation, training, and knowledge sharing while coordinating effectively across teams and with external partners using professional communication both written and verbal.

Self-Employed | 06/13–08/17

Pitching, designing, animating, and editing music videos. Bringing a passion for storytelling, strong work ethic, and resourcefulness to each project to create a unique visual for each artist.

WebTuner | 2015

• Designing, planning, and animating product commercials, while following brand guidelines.
• Acting as camera operator, and editor, for both live action and photography shoots. Filming and editing behind the scenes videos in Adobe Premiere, used for promotion and social media.

• Unreal Engine

• Unity

• Adobe Creative Suite

• Maya

• 3DS Max

• Perforce

• Office

• JavaScript

• MEL Script

• Python

• C#

• C++

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Production Animation

  DigiPen Institute of Technology - 2012

• Python for Maya: Artist Friendly Programming

  Udemy - 2019

• Motion Design

  Learn Squared / Jorge R. Canedo Estrada - 2020

• Master Motion Design

  Ben Marriott - 2021