Campaign Dynamics Owner

• Jun 2022 - Present

Environment Technical Artist

• Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

Technical Environment Artist (Contract: Randstad USA)

• Jun 2019 - Mar 2022

Working on Halo Infinite!

3D Environment Artist

• Jun 2018 - May 2019

Responsible for all visual aspects of our Unity based vehicle simulation platform! Check out our GDC talk where I present our work and methods. Also see our work for yourself with our freely released Synthetic Training Data (over 273 thousand frames of data!): https://apollo.auto/synthetic.html My Responsibilities: Led small art team to create photorealistic, accurate, and data-rich recreations of real world test routes and locations based on map data, scan data, and real life blueprints and photo reference. Built Unity art pipeline from scratch as well as our photogrammetry pipeline. Responsible for making decisions on software, plugins, and photogrammetry hardware. Hired, trained, and mentored artists to build the team. Engaged with and built relationships with art outsourcing studios. Show less

VR 3D Generalist & Compositor - Lytro Immerge

• Sep 2017 - Mar 2018

- 3D Generalist, compositor, and technical artist for in-house productions, external clients, and internal engineering teams. Full pipeline work including modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, and compositing for live action, animation, and real time projects. - Worked as a technical art generalist in Unity primarily as a part of our project to develop a suite of real time tools that utilized our live action and prerendered lightfield content. In addition to that I built environments, worked on shaders, implemented assets, and tested/designed new workflows for optimizing our content in VR and AR productions. - Worked with engineers to accelerate software development and increase production quality. Provided hardware simulations, machine learning data, and various content pieces for testing and development. - Provided extremely detailed documentation, QA, and feedback for development of internal tools as well as evaluating external software- Wrote custom scripts and tools in Python for Nuke- Tools: Unity, Maya, Nuke, V-Ray, Redshift, Unreal, Python, C# Show less

Compositor - Lytro Cinema

• Oct 2016 - Sep 2017

- Primary compositing and 3D Generalist for internal test shoots and external demos - Provided extremely detailed testing, feedback, and write ups for custom Lytro tools and workflows - Wrote custom scripts and tools in Python for Nuke - Provided testing and QA feedback for Foundry’s Elara - Nuke for Compositing, Maya and 3DS Max for 3D generalist work, V-Ray for rendering

Graphics Intern

• Jun 2016 - Sep 2016

Helped prepare marketing materials for large Disney ad campaigns including: - Beauty and the Beast (2017) - Finding Dory - Moana - Pete's Dragon Rig Removal/Roto/Paint: - The Muppets: Outside Lands Live Performance - 360 VR Short Film "Static" Prep work included pulling keys, roto, paint, look development, sim work, and assembling motion graphics. Helped prepare marketing materials for large Disney ad campaigns including: - Beauty and the Beast (2017) - Finding Dory - Moana - Pete's Dragon Rig Removal/Roto/Paint: - The Muppets: Outside Lands Live Performance - 360 VR Short Film "Static" Prep work included pulling keys, roto, paint, look development, sim work, and assembling motion graphics.

Student of Film, Visual Effects, and Animation

• Aug 2013 - May 2016

I studied Film production and Visual Effects. The program entails a rigorous, hands-on education in all areas concerning modern film production, including Live-Action, Live-Action with Visual Effects, and fully CG Animated short films. This program gives hands on generalist education in all facets of digital production with a Shotgun-based production pipeline. Worked on over 36 live-action sets and directed 2 original, fully animated shorts. Full training in CG/VFX pipeline in simulated studio production environment. Show less

Student Volunteer

• Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

Assisted Exhibitors by giving demonstrations and explanations of new Emerging Technologies in the fields of Entertainment and Visual Effects. Worked with a large team of volunteers to ensure a successful conference. Selected for special shifts in the fields of Emerging Technologies and hands-on Studio projects. Provided quality customer assistance to Conference attendees. Executed any job assigned hastily and to perfection. Assisted Exhibitors by giving demonstrations and explanations of new Emerging Technologies in the fields of Entertainment and Visual Effects. Worked with a large team of volunteers to ensure a successful conference. Selected for special shifts in the fields of Emerging Technologies and hands-on Studio projects. Provided quality customer assistance to Conference attendees. Executed any job assigned hastily and to perfection.

Projectionist/IT Manager

• Jun 2012 - Aug 2013

I managed and threaded 35mm film projectors, made sure movies ran on time, problem solved any issues with the projectors and/or sound system, assisted customers with problems. I also managed the server Point-of-Sale computer systems by maintaining the catalogue of sale items and general management(Employee IDs, virus scans, Network issues) I managed and threaded 35mm film projectors, made sure movies ran on time, problem solved any issues with the projectors and/or sound system, assisted customers with problems. I also managed the server Point-of-Sale computer systems by maintaining the catalogue of sale items and general management(Employee IDs, virus scans, Network issues)