Experience

Bluepoint Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior VFX Artist

  • Jul 2022 - Present

• VFX Artist

  • Oct 2019 - Jun 2022


Certain Affinity
• United States
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Contract Technical Artist

  • Aug 2019 - Oct 2019


BitLoft

• Germany
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Technical Artist

  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

  Lead technical artist on Bitloft's Crystal Core, a game-based learning platform in development for the Indiana Virtual School. Responsibilities: -Create custom shaders for character and environmental effects -Design and support terrain and grass system for environment artists -Manage game performance, testing for and troubleshooting performance bottlenecks (Windows, Mac and Linux) -Create and performance test particle FX -Help manage version control issues across Design, Engineering and Art -Helped establish, and update, maintain and document the 3D pipeline -Managed tasking of a Junior Technical Artist -Helped onboard and technically orient new employees on a fast-growing team Show less



Triseum

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Artist

  • May 2016 - Oct 2017

  Triseum looks to revolutionize learning making AAA educational games for college-level courses. A startup with $6M in funding striving to break into the almost uncharted territory of high-quality learning games. Reported directly to the Creative Director and the Director of Technology, supporting special FX and optimizations on Triseum's flagship calculus game Variant: Limits. While working as an FX and optimization technical artist, contributed and collaborated with other artists and engineers in developing the pipeline and company processes, and was also partially responsible for investigating and implementing software and engine updates Responsibilities focused on FX, tool creation, and optimization: -Diagnosed and remedied CPU and GPU performance bottlenecks -Optimized Variant: Limits to run on Chromebook-equivalent hardware achieving a 10x performance increase -Created a tool to generate and apply LOD geometry to assets in-engine -Wrote cg shaders designed to optimize Variant: Limits on low-end hardware -Collaborated on designing, developing, implementing, and documenting the highly procedural Houdini-Substance-Unity pipeline -Created tools to optimize procedural assets in Unity -Built procedural systems for generating navigation paths in-engine -Designed and implemented several special effects in Variant: Limits -Automated repetitive in-engine tasks for designers and artists Show less



LIVE Lab, Texas A&M University

• Lead Technical Artist

  • Dec 2015 - May 2016

  The Learning Interactive Visualization Experience (LIVE) Lab is a research lab at Texas A&M that employs several A&M students from various majors to design, build, and develop high-quality educational video games in an environment which closely mimics a professional game studio. At the time, it also doubled as a classroom / open lab for Visualization students. Sole technical artist in the lab for 2 large projects and was also responsible for all of the lab's hardware and software, both of which I had little prior knowledge. Accomplishments: -Migrated all of the labs repositories (6 in total) from Perforce into Plastic SCM, set up security privileges -Worked closely with engineering, art, and design leads to establish and modify pipelines for different projects -Worked with art teams regarding asset and projects with technical difficulties for students and faculty, usually in Maya but in several other 3D and surfacing applications as well -Tutored and debugged C++ and Python code for students in Visualization programming classes -Prototyped environmental FX in Unity -Interviewed, hired and trained two tech artists to take over my responsibilities when recruited to join Triseum in May of 2016 Show less



The Bush School

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Student Technician I

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

  The Bush School of Government and Public Service at A&M is renowned for it's internationally acclaimed faculty and for it's Public Service and International Affairs graduate programs. Earned a deep technical understanding of computing and the relationship between modern hardware and software and obtained fundamental troubleshooting abilities that naturally steered me towards a focus in tech art. Problem solved under pressure almost daily, as often the issues dealt with were holding up a lecture or video conference, sometimes in front of 50+ audience members. Achievements: -Diagnosed hardware and software issues on Windows and Mac -Troubleshot a variety of unfamiliar software -Assisted in the maintenance of over 200 staff and lab computers -Wrote and deployed powershell scripts to facilitate school-wide changes -Helped deploy computers and software for faculty and labs -Upkept detailed documentation of currently deployed machines, software versions, and other hardware -Facilitated large video conferences and lectures Show less



Carolyn Arnold Communications Consultant

• United States

• Auditor

  • Sep 2010 - Aug 2014

  Assisted in the management of phone lines and internet service for private companies and large government entities like school districts and water systems. Wrote scripts and macros to eliminate repetitive tasks for myself and other employees, as well as improved workflows and processes. Assisted in the management of phone lines and internet service for private companies and large government entities like school districts and water systems. Wrote scripts and macros to eliminate repetitive tasks for myself and other employees, as well as improved workflows and processes.



6A Properties

• United States

• Custodian

  • 2009 - 2014

  Cleaned offices and helped with small building maintenance projects. Cleaned offices and helped with small building maintenance projects.



Independent

• Uganda
• International Trade and Development

• Contrator

  • 2008 - 2014

  Performed a variety of services ranging from landscaping to construction to helping manage a parrot farm. Performed a variety of services ranging from landscaping to construction to helping manage a parrot farm.



Currey Creek Baptist Church

• A/V Technician and Graphic Designer

  • Feb 2011 - Aug 2013

  Designed and created promotional slides, posters and cards for events using Illustrator and Photoshop. Ran video presentations and mixed and recorded live music and sermons. Designed and created promotional slides, posters and cards for events using Illustrator and Photoshop. Ran video presentations and mixed and recorded live music and sermons.