Experience

• Senior 3D Artist at Choice Provisions

  Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

  October 2019 - Present

• Technical Artist at Evil Eye Pictures @ Google

  Mountain View, CA, United States of America

  July 2018 - September 2019

  Google Daydream
  
  ● Worked on various animated animal assets for Google's AR Search
  
  ● Worked with Google’s Immersive Arts team on various Google Playground AR Sticker packs
  
  ● Integrated art assets into proprietary engine for mobile devices
  
  ● Created and animated various VFX across multiple projects

• Senior 3D Artist at Adecco @ Google

  Mountain View, CA, United States of America

  June 2017 - December 2017

  Google Daydream
  
  ● Worked with Google Daydream team to optimize and port 3D environments to a range of VR devices
  
  ● Worked on 3D text for Google AR Stickers app
  
  ● Integrated art assets into proprietary engine for several mobile devices

• Freelance 3D Artist at Choice Provisions

  Santa Cruz CA, United States of America

  May 2017 - June 2017

  ●Contributed 3D character models and textures for unlockable playable characters in Runner3
  
  ●Modeled high and low resolution models, baked normal maps, created PBR textures in Substance Painter
  
  ●Designed and modeled a cartoon likeness of a person to match style and specs of the game
  
  ●Created a character model based on another IP to match the style and specs of the game

• Freelance VR 3D Artist at Subdream Studios

  San Mateo, United States of America

  February 2017 - May 2017

  ●Worked on designing characters, props, and effects for a VR rail shooter "Mega Overload VR".
  
  ●Developed fun, colorful, and styled art style, meant to look clean and run fast in VR.
  
  ●Modeled, textured, and animated over a dozen flying robot characters.
  
  ●Implemented dozens of particle effects for both player and enemy attacks and hits.

• Senior VR 3D Artist at COLOPL NI

  San Mateo, CA

  April 2016 - October 2016

  ● Creating 3D environments and effects for experimental VR projects for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Gear VR platforms
  
  ● 3D environment modeling, texturing, UV mapping, normal mapping, particle FX
  
  ● Unity asset setup for materials, lighting, and particles
  
  ● Porting 3D assets from Oculus PC platform to mobile Gear VR platform

• Lead 3D Artist at Choice Provisions / Gaijin Games

  San Francisco, CA, United States of America

  September 2011 - March 2016

  Tharsis
  
  ●Created 3D spacecraft environment, props, shaders and materials
  
  ●Created particle effects for hundreds of events
  
  ●Responsible for exporting and implementing 3D assets within the Unity3D engine
  
  ●Assisted with UI design and 2D assets

  Runner2
  
  ●Created all 3D level environments for five themed worlds of 20+ levels each
  
  ●Created all modular 3D assets for foreground 3D tiles
  
  ●Modeled and textured main characters and various secondary characters and bosses
  
  ●Assisted with developing art pipeline and tools for custom engine
  

• Lead 3D Artist at Digital Embryo

  Old Bridge, NJ, United States of America

  July 2006 - January 2011

  ●3D modeling, texturing, UV mapping, normal mapping, lighting, materials, particle FX
  
  ●Level building, asset exporting, asset troubleshooting and optimization
  
  ●Pixel art sprites, HUDs, menus
  
  ●Developing, organizing and optimizing the art asset pipeline
  
  ●Investigating and researching new techniques and implementing them
  
  ●Teaching new tools, technologies, techniques, and work flows to the art team

  Games
  
  ●Go Play City Sports (Wii)
  
  ●Cake Mania 1, 2, & 3 (DS)
  
  ●Summer Sports 2: Island Sports Party (Wii)
  
  ●Summer Sports: Paradise Island (Wii)
  
  ●Xenocade HD (iPad/iPhone)