Experience

• Environment Artist at Cybernetic Entertainment

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  September 2018 - Present

  · Build game environments from the ground up: Model, optimize, unwrap, bake, texture, and light.
  
  · Model, optimize, unwrap, bake, and texture props.
  
  · Current pipeline: 3ds Max, ZBrush, Marmoset Toolbag (Baking, Look Dev, Presentation), Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Photoshop, and Unity.

• Senior Visualizer at DESIGN Duncan Miller Ullman

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  April 2018 - August 2018

  · Modeled, unwrapped, textured, and rendered furniture and home décor.
  
  · Converted non-seamless textures to seamless with proper, down and dirty Photoshop manipulation.
  
  · Built and rendered scenes of five-star hotels and restaurants for clients such as Disney, Hyatt, Wingate, Hotel ZaZa, St. Regis, and Marriott.

• CGI Production Artist at Harper House

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  April 2016 - March 2018

  · Converted non-seamless textures to seamless with proper, down and dirty Photoshop manipulation.
  
  · Built textures from scratch (Albedo, Spec, Gloss, Reflect, Roughness, Normal, Height, Ambient Occlusion) when scans or lab graphics were not available or provided.
  
  · Modeled, unwrapped, textured, and rendered furniture, appliances, and home décor.
  
  · Built and rendered products and architectural scenes for clients such as Dell, Big Chill, Daltile, Marazzi, Capital Lighting, Duralee, Color & Design, Fabricut, and TRI-KES.
  
  · Lead the pursuit in evaluating, testing, quoting, and building new workstations for the CGI Department.
  
  · Built new workstations in-house which included dual-processor motherboards and 22-core CPUs, giving each machine 88 logical cores of rendering power locally, at a total price of approx. $6,500. This allowed 3-hour renders to be completed in 20 minutes.
  
  · Saved Harper House approx. $6,500 per new workstation by building them in-house. The total price of the same workstation built through vendors such as Dell, HP, BOXX, or Puget Systems, ranged from approx. $13,000 to approx. $19,000.

• Visualization Specialist & Systems Coordinator at Faulkner Design Group

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  June 2015 - October 2015

  · Used 3ds Max to fix, re-build, and optimize Revit scenes for Unreal Engine 4.
  
  · Created photorealistic stills of architectural spaces using Revit, 3ds Max, Mental Ray, and iRay.

• 3D Artist Intern at Sony Online Entertainment

  San Diego, CA, United States of America

  October 2014 - December 2014

  · Broke down entire levels from EverQuest: The Darkened Sea expansion pack, prepping the individual assets so that they could be sold on the EQ Marketplace.
  
  · Converted open-face assets to water-tight, fixed their UVs, and corrected any existing errors.
  
  · Modeled and textured lanterns, robes, and banners for a future EQ expansion pack.

• Mass Communication Specialist at US Navy

  San Diego, CA, United States of America

  April 2008 - July 2011

  · Produced entertainment and lifestyle news reports, music videos, and commercials.
  
  · Filmed and photographed almost every aspect of US Navy military operations at sea and ashore.
  
  · Designed graphics for websites, posters, magazines, newsletters, and military archives.
  
  · Edited, toned, captioned, and uploaded photographs and video for news publications.