Experience

• Senior Material Artist at Playstation Studios Visual Arts

  Remote, US

  June 2024 - Present

• Material Artist at Playstation Studios Visual Arts

  Remote, US

  April 2022 - June 2024

• Adjunct Professor at Academy Art University

  Remote, US

  August 2023 - Present

• Instructor at CG Mastery Academy

  Remote

  March 2021 - March 2024

  Instructor for the new "Shading and Material Creation in Unreal Engine" course

  -Create a New Syllabus and Course Content for the Class.
  
  -Center Lessons around various Shaders and Techniques used in Game Production
  
  -Host Weekly Q&A sessions to review and focus on Student Requested Topics

• Material Prop Artist at Sanzaru Games

  Fremont

  July 2019 - April 2022

  Fremont, CA

  -Model, Sculpt and UV prop assets used at interactable or static meshes in level.
  
  -Interpret Concept and Art Styles on a level to level basis in regards to asset creation.
  
  -Generate Textures for Pipeline Usage within Engine to then be passed off to Core Texture Team.
  
  -Work closely with Design and Level Artists to integrate art for usage with Game Mechanics.
  
  -Using Substance Suite, Generate textures used for various purposes within Game.
  
  -Add metadata and collision data to models
  
  -Optimize Assets for VR and Mobile VR platforms.
  

• Material Artist at Sanzaru Games

  Foster City, United States of America

  January 2018 - June 2019

  Foster City, CA
  
  -Create materials for 0-1 models as well as Tileable World Materials
  
  -Create and adjust textures and models for use in Virtual Reality
  
  -Generate Textures for Pipeline Usage within Engine.
  
  -Using Substance Suite, Generate textures used for various purposes within Game.
  
  -Maintain vast library of materials.
  
  -Model, Sculpt and Texture various Hero assets.
  
  -Create and adjust Shaders with UE4 Node Based Material Editor for use in Pipeline.

• 3D Artist at Houzz

  Palo Alto, United States of America

  January 2017 - January 2018

  -Create material and model variations of products based on furniture from Houzz Catelog
  
  -Create and adjust textures and models for use in Augmented Reality
  
  -Generate Textures for Pipeline Usage within Engine.
  
  -Critique and edit Outsource Models and textures for accuracy as well as adjustments for pipeline usage.
  
  -Maintain vast library of materials.
  
  -Add metadata and collision data to models using Houzz proprietary tools

• Associate Technical Artist (Contract) at Sledgehammer Games

  Foster City, United States of America

  October 2016 - December 2016

  -Optimize level performance without taking away from Art Direction.
  
  -Work on creating better and efficient asset pipelines for production.
  
  -Audit levels for material Physically-based correctness.
  
  -Work on testing and fixing tools to help with automating asset correctness based on production guidelines.

• Associate Technical Artist (Contract) at Infinity Ward

  Woodland Hills, United States of America

  July 2016 - October 2016

  -Evaluate and improve game textures for PBR correctness.
  
  -Assist with debugging and fixing lighting and shader issues.
  
  -Assess and alter Textures and Materials for a final pass for the project.
  
  -Optimize assets based on diskspace and number of assets per level.
  
  -Test out Photogrammetry pipeline and ways to improve it

• Associate 3D Artist at Premium Polygons

  Culver City, United States of America

  July 2015 - July 2016

  -Created Hi-poly, Low-poly models.
  
  -Baked down textures from models and placed them in the Quixel Suite for intial texturing pass.
  
  - Create renders from Intial rendering software for intial okay from producer.
  
  -Publish textures based on engine quality and necessary material requirements.
  
  -Create renders within game engine for marketing use.

• 3D Artist (Contract) at Virsix Inc.

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  October 2015 - January 2016

  -Developed and rendered design dimension plans for VR Cube design and also printing of interior and exterior cloth covering.
  
  -Stylized PBR Texture development, optimization, and implementation
  
  -High | Low poly modeling and texturing of environment buildings, landscapes, and props
  
  -Process development, art direction, and visual standard establishment.