Experience

• Environment Artist at Cybernetic Entertainment

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  September 2018 - Present

  Design, build, and light real-time environments for Unity.

  Model, optimize, unwrap, bake, and texture props.

  Current pipeline: 3ds Max, ZBrush, Marmoset Toolbag, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Photoshop, and Unity.

• Senior Visualizer at DESIGN Duncan Miller Ullman

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  April 2018 - August 2018

  Built, lit, and rendered 3D scenes of four and five-star hotels and restaurants for clients such as Disney, Hyatt, Wingate, Hotel ZaZa, St. Regis, and Marriott.

  Modeled, unwrapped, textured, and rendered furniture and home décor.

• CGI Production Artist at Harper House

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  April 2016 - March 2018

  Built, lit, and rendered 3D visualizations of products and architectural scenes for clients such as
  
  Dell, Big Chill, Daltile, Marazzi, Capital Lighting, Duralee, Color & Design, Fabricut, and TRI-KES.

  Modeled, unwrapped, textured, and rendered furniture, appliances, and home décor.

  Created custom textures and materials, often converted non-seamless textures to seamless.

  Built textures from scratch (Albedo, Spec, Gloss, Reflect, Roughness, Normal, Height, Ambient
  
  Occlusion) when scans or lab graphics were not available or provided.

  Helped lead the pursuit in evaluating, testing, quoting, and building new workstations for the CGI Department.

• Visualization Specialist & Systems Coordinator (Contract) 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.

  Built and rendered 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.