Experience

DreamBox Learning

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Artist // Acting Art Director

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Projects: DreamBox Learning Math, and DreamBox Learning Reading Park Initially brought on to a team of artists to help develop and produce Lessons and Features in the Math space for a target audience of kindergarten to 8th grade, I worked alongside Development teams to help bring our Curriculum Designers visions to life. Refined processes amongst the Artists Pipeline to deliver assets and marketing materials in half the time prior. Built out, rigged and animated a 3D model of one of Dreambox's Mascots for use in Promotional Materials. After a departure of our Art Director, I stepped in and am leading a team of six artists across both value streams, coordinating projects and timelines, establishing art styles, and putting together and executing plans to tackle Dreambox Learning Reading Park, a fun and exciting reading experience for students. Show less



GC Turbo Inc.

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Game Artist

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2021

  Projects: Pokemon Battle Medallion, The Walking Dead, Dungeon Crasher, Monster Strike, Nature Strikes Back With a team located all over the US, Japan and China, I produced Game and UI effects, illustrations and screen animations for Pokemon Battle Medallion while maintaining branding for The Pokemon Company, was a Pokemon Master Resource, I fielded a bunch of questions about which pokemon would make the most sense for a given location, lore, etc. In our upcoming Unreleased games, I animated and rigged characters and attacks, loot box animations, and UI effects, while working with our Japan offices to stay on brand with the IPs we were working with. I also did some Live ops work for our Walking Dead game, and made promotional videos and animation for our company's Tokyo Game Show parties Show less



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Motion Artist

  • Jan 2019 - May 2019

  Project: Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego Google Earth was looking to do a Point N' Click adventure in the vein of classic Carmen, so I was able to provide pixel animations and new character art of the new Carmen Sandiego characters. This includes adhering to the show's artstyle, and concepting backgrounds, characters and storyboards to final art. Also put together a couple of social media Ads and Teasers for release. Project: Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego Google Earth was looking to do a Point N' Click adventure in the vein of classic Carmen, so I was able to provide pixel animations and new character art of the new Carmen Sandiego characters. This includes adhering to the show's artstyle, and concepting backgrounds, characters and storyboards to final art. Also put together a couple of social media Ads and Teasers for release.



Lumos Labs (Lumosity)

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Game Artist

  • Apr 2017 - Feb 2019

  Projects: Magic Chance, Contextual, Trouble Brewing Holiday, Live Ops I worked as part of an Art team to test and keep our projects on brand, as well as work with a developer to concept and test game pitches and features. Once given the green light to move forward, I worked from concept to final Art, Motion and UX in Unity and Cocos Creator. In addition to game projects, I also worked with Live Ops to port and reskin past projects as well as refine the Art QA process and worked with Marketing to tune up our Rebranding effort and provide Art for Promotional Emails Show less



Storm8

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Animator

  • Jun 2016 - Feb 2017

  GENERAL- helped develop animation pipelines by testing out ideas- created animated website banners using game assets- helped run animation meetingsDREAM CITY: METROPOLIS (i/e)- contributed to the direction of the game through concept art- modeled, rigged, textured and animated 3D characters, buildings and effects- concepted game feel through animation- helped create animation style guide for outsourcingUNRELEASED GAME (casino)- concepted animation, modeled, rigged, textured and animated 2D and 3D characters, effects and icons- helped create animation style guide for outsourcingHACKTHONS - designed, animated, illustrated, led on a variety of projects ranging from animated commercials, minigames collection, match 3, rhythm, color matching, resource management projects within teams of 5-10- placed multiple times Show less

• Game Artist

  • Apr 2012 - Jun 2016

  GENERAL- helped develop animation pipelines by testing out ideas- created animated website banners using game assets- helped run animation meetingsDRAGON STORY (i/e)- created and animated 2D rigs and fx- took dragon ideas concept to finishMONSTER STORY (i/e)- created and animated 2D rigs and fx- took monster ideas concept to finishBINGO MANIA (casual)- rigged and animated 2D backgrounds, locations and fxCANCELLED PROJECT (SBBM) (match3)- ilustrated, rigged and animated 2D characters and fx based on IP- matched styleCASTLE STORY (i/e)- took finished art and created additional pieces in style for rigs- rigged and animated 2D characters, fx and locationsCANCELLED PROJECT (KC) (midcore)- animated 3D character rigs and fx- learned game specific softwareFARM STORY 2 (i/e)- concepted, rigged, textured and animated 3D characters and buildingsRESTAURANT STORY 2 (i/e)- concepted, modeled, rigged, textured and animated 3D characters and buildingsTREASURE RUN (endless runner)- collaborated with Illustrators to determine rigs - rigged and animated 2D characters, and effectsCANCELLED PROJECT (JM2) (match3)- collaborated with Illustrators to determine rigs- concepted, rigged and animated 2D characters, backgrounds, powerups, and effectsFISH FRENZY MANIA (match3)- collaborated with Illustrators to determine rigs- concepted, rigged and animated 2D characters, backgrounds, powerups, bosses and effectsCANCELLED PROJECT (DS2)- contributed to the direction of the game through concept art- modeled, rigged, textured and animated 2.5D characters, buildings and effects- learned unity pipeline- helped create animation style guideHACKTHONS - designed, animated, illustrated, led on a variety of projects ranging from animated commercials, minigames collection, match 3, rhythm, color matching, resource management projects within teams of 5-10- placed multiple times Show less



RockYou

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Artist

  • Aug 2011 - Mar 2012

  Hooked- avatar creator, character design, achievement design, back ground art, maps, UI art, asset design, character and cutscene animation. Communications with art, engineering, to complete assignments. Contributed to user design and game progression discussions. Play tested environments. Unreleased project- avatar creator, character design, achievement design, back ground art, maps, UI art, asset design, character . Communications with art, engineering, to complete assignments. Contributed to user design and game progression discussions. Play tested environments. Show less



Electrified Games

• Junior Artist

  • Aug 2010 - Aug 2011

  Pokemon TCG Online and Pokemon Trainer Challenge - avatar creator, character design, achievement design, back ground art, UI art, asset design, character and cutscene animation. Communications with art, engineering, sound and QA dept to complete assignments. Completed tasks assigned by Art Director and Art Producer. Play tested environments. Unreleased Project - character creation, concept art to final render, UI art, asset design, attack layout. Completed tasks assigned by Art Director and Art Producer. Show less



Bait and Switch TV

• Intern

  • Feb 2010 - May 2010

  Created Flash Parodies according to storyboards and instructions. Created original animations and lip synced. Consulted game design and tutorials Created Flash Parodies according to storyboards and instructions. Created original animations and lip synced. Consulted game design and tutorials



SAE Expression College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Animation Assistant

  • Sep 2009 - Jan 2010

  Assisted the instructor in carrying out lessons, helped students one on one, offered critique. Handled file management and storage of student work. Created examples of projects and troubleshot computers.

• Animator for Fresh World

  • Sep 2009 - Oct 2009

  Completed four shots and six character cycles for the intro sequence in Maya. Production setting. Participated in Dailies.



SAE Expression College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Animator for The Cartographer's Stone ( short )

  • May 2009 - Jun 2009

  Completed two shots in Maya. Animated a worm rig that utilized ncloth dynamics to simulate skin tearing. Rebuilt rig to acquire desired results. Completed two shots in Maya. Animated a worm rig that utilized ncloth dynamics to simulate skin tearing. Rebuilt rig to acquire desired results.



SonicJam, Inc.

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Animation Consultant

  • May 2008 - Jun 2009

  Produced multiple 2D flash animations for use in proprietary web-based application under tight deadlines. Collaborated to create characters and situations from concept to final design. Created original animations and assigned projects to contractors. Gave critique and art direction. Created Flash website for company. Produced multiple 2D flash animations for use in proprietary web-based application under tight deadlines. Collaborated to create characters and situations from concept to final design. Created original animations and assigned projects to contractors. Gave critique and art direction. Created Flash website for company.