Experience

• Senior Lead Character Artist | Unannounced Title at Certain Affinity

  Baltimore MD, United States of America

  January 2020 - January 2023

• Lead Character Artist | Hogwarts Legacy at Certain Affinity

  Baltimore, United States of America

  March 2021 - February 2023

  Responsible for creating high-quality character models and leading a team of character artists in developing the Professors, main story NPCs, and enemy characters. Established character pipelines, set up shaders, and provided guidance and mentorship to junior artists. Worked closely with the Art Directors to ensure that the character art team met deadlines and worked efficiently.

• Lead Character Artist|Marvel Midnight Suns at Firaxis Games

  Baltimore MD, United States of America

  January 2018 - January 2020

  Oversaw characters and directly created and developed key main characters featured in the game. Worked closely with IP partners to ensure that all character designs were aligned with the Marvel universe and played a crucial role in look development and pipeline and shader development. Led the character art team and oversaw multiple outsourcing teams, delivering high-quality character assets on time.

• Lead Character Artist | Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Rise and Fall at Firaxis Games

  Hunt Valley, United States of America

  March 2014 - January 2016

  Prototyped and Implemented a sharable character system, optimizing workflows to embrace even more current workflows

  Aided in training for the Physically based material pipeline.

  Industry standard character modeling and texturing duties
  

• Lead Character Artist | Civilization 6 at Firaxis Games

  Hunt Valley, United States of America

  January 2014 - January 2016

  Responsible for the creation of the Leaders of Civ 6.

  Prototyped and Implemented a new material pipeline to utilize modern PBR standards, as well as aided in the creation of the unit and building pipelines as well.

  Aided in training for the Physically based material pipeline.

  Prototyped and developed a new strand based hair system that utilized a film quality approach to hair.
  

• Character Artist | Xcom 2: War of the Chosen at Firaxis Games

  Hunt Valley, United States of America

  January 2014 - January 2015

  Prototyped and Implemented a new facial topology, sharabled between mulitple cinematic characters, also helped develop and new facial rig

  Visual Development of the game's villans, concepted and executing the heads of the the characters, Ensuring they looked good, even when non human.

  Aided in furthering the PBR pipeline and material structure in term to realistic shading and skin rendering.
  

• Character Artist | Xcom 2 at Firaxis Games

  Hunt Valley, United States of America

  January 2014 - January 2015

  Prototyped and Implemented customizable heads for the character creator

  Aided in establishing a consistent style for the games character

• Modeler at Mr X Gotham

  New York City, United States of America

  November 2011 - October 2012

  HIgh budget AAA movies, from modeling to texturing, to UV's to proxy models. Focus was on high resolution film models, with good topology and usability in a large pipeline setting. Both organic and hard surface work. Both creature and plant to set extension, with a little bit of digital environment modeling thrown in
  

• Digital Sculptor at JPro Studios

  United States of America

  October 2013 - December 2013

  Digitally sculpted and conceptualized Characters for a Float designed for the Fiesta Bowl Parade