Experience

• Senior Technical Artist at Cryptic Studios

  Los Gatos, US

  May 2019 - Present

  • Prototyped and implemented a custom cel shading/lighting system in Unreal Engine
  
  • Developed and maintained a flexible, scalable shader library for environment, character, and VFX teams that supported diverse asset creation and also integrated with gameplay effects developed by design teams.
  
  • Accelerated the workflows of artists by creating tools to clean up existing libraries of assets and developing tools to automate repetitive processes
  
  • Created and maintained a library of destructible assets that integrated with Audio and VFX using Unreal Engine’s Chaos Physics system
  
  • Cultivated a studio culture of trust and communication between artist, programmers, and technical art.

• Technical Artist at Avalanche Studios

  New York City

  September 2017 - April 2019

  • Architected, developed, and maintained a pipeline between Maya and Substance Designer for procedurally generating textures and materials for low LOD/proxy environment and vehicle meshes.

  • Expanded existing tools to allow for more robust previewing of PBR materials in Maya and quality-of-life improvements to artists’ workflows

  • Worked closely with gameplay programmers and rendering engineers to develop hologram shaders to convey gameplay elements

  • Interfaced with Production to advocate for scheduling and technical concerns for the DLC art team

• Associate Technical Artist at Electronic Arts (EA)

  Orlando, United States of America

  August 2015 - September 2017

  • Created a scalable node-based shader library used for Madden18’s in-game and cinematics environment art teams using Frostbite Engine.

  • Supported the Longshot (Madden18 Cinematics) and PGA Tour teams’ environment artists and lighters by developing iterable, artist-centric solutions to technical issues.

  • Prototyped a toolset for use by cinematic lighters for EA’s global lighting
  
  initiative in Frostbite Script (Python-based)

  • Implemented procedural solutions for generating outer terrain and placing
  
  of environment assets using Houdini.

  • Managed and documented the art-side implementation of EA’s grass technology for Longshot

• 3D Artist at Shifty Chair Games

  Orlando, United States of America

  January 2014 - February 2015

  • Worked with a small team of four artists to create a multiplayer indie shooter

  • Authored flexible, efficient master shaders for all environment and weapon
  
  models.

  • Planned efficient UV/Texture packing configurations to optimize texture
  
  usage throughout the environment

  • Created compelling shader VFX to convey character abilities for three of the four character classes as well as ambient VFX to add life to the environment