Experience

• Art Producer at City State Entertainment

  Fairfax, United States of America

  March 2018 - March 2020

  • Drive and oversee multi-discipline art team of 10-13 between two studios to deliver content
  
  on time while adapting to feedback and emergent feature needs on two titles.
  
  • Oversee art needs of second game during rapid four month prototype with entirely new art
  
  direction and design needs while maintaining existing project’s art needs.
  
  • Continue oversight of daily standups, Scrum Artifacts, and oversee or write weekly and
  
  monthly updates and newsletters.
  
  • Personally execute on quick problem solving between art, design, and engineering during
  
  pivots and emergent issues by understanding all tech in play.
  
  • Improve existing character art by driving an anatomical and technical redesign of all
  
  existing character art.
  
  • Deliver a more visually exciting animation style by personally art directing and re-designing
  
  the system while satisfying stakeholders.
  
  • Empower individuals to exceed personal expectations in a stressful environment.
  
  • Maintain art team delivery dates by personally assisting artists where necessary.

• Producer at City State Entertainment

  Fairfax, United States of America

  August 2013 - March 2018

  • Drive and manage vision, product, design, and technical decision making and features of a
  
  20+ person team and hold them accountable to delivery dates.
  
  • Execute on stakeholder meetings with executive leadership and leads to regularly align
  
  product vision while adapting to regular pivots and emergent requirements.
  
  • Run daily standups and manage Scrum Artifacts.
  
  • Reduce office conflict and improve productivity by participating in or leading meetings to
  
  address employee discipline and personal issues.
  
  • Drive art team improvement of workflows, communication, and art direction.
  
  • Determine initial budgets and workflows of all environment assets and create initial assets
  
  to deliver environments that can support 500+ player battles with playable fps.
  
  • Work with lead graphics engineer to deliver a complete re-work of all existing textures to be
  
  PBR compliant.
  
  • Lead and maintain a strong, transparent social media presence through weekly written
  
  updates and monthly newsletters in three languages and participate in live Q&A sessions,
  
  and live tech demos.
  
  • Build trust and excitement in fan base by managing and participating in guest speaker
  
  panels and booths at conventions.
  
  • Maintain office needs and provide assistance to external accountants.

• Lead Environment Artist at EnVie Interactive

  San Carlos, United States of America

  March 2010 - December 2011

  • Oversee scrum artifacts as pertain to environment art including external vendors.
  
  • Orient, instruct, and review work by external vendors to maintain timely delivery of assets
  
  for a vast open island with multiple interiors.
  
  • Reduced outsourcing costs and improved output by implementing time saving process
  
  improvements and clearer instructions and reviews.
  
  • Improve FPS visuals by fixing or rebuilding pre-existing environment assets.
  
  • Improve in-app purchasing revenue and reduce art production costs by creating different
  
  assets that share textures, exceeding expectations of management.
  
  • Provide creative solutions to deliver assets more closely related to concept art within
  
  limited engine and budget constraints.
  

• Lead Environment Artist - The Godfather II, The Simpsons Game, Dante's Inferno at Electronic Arts

  Redwood City, United States of America

  January 2007 - November 2009

  Dante’s Inferno
  
  • Improve visuals, FPS, and polish of existing art by optimizing geo and texture usage.
  
  • Add more visual flair and polish to existing levels by creating new VFX assets requiring
  
  expedited learning of in-house VFX tools.
  
  • Quickly assist in late addition of npc death VFX material feature by creating, implementing,
  
  and testing art assets.
  
  
  
  The Godfather II
  
  • Execute on regular stakeholder meetings with leads to provide assets needed to fulfill the
  
  vision of the game on time.
  
  • Develop and maintain processes to create building interiors and exteriors that meet or
  
  exceed the technical and design limitations and needs.
  
  • Oversee onboarding and daily needs of environment artists through concise
  
  documentation and reviews as well as mentoring where needed.
  
  • Oversee successful integration of the EA Shanghai artists by adapting existing
  
  documentation and review process to be visually focused, avoiding language barrier issues.
  
  • Work directly with supporting Dev team to provide necessary tools for artists and
  
  designers.

  The Simpsons Game
  
  • Quickly groc Simpsons team’s workflows to finish level assets and polish and assist with
  
  bugs in order to finish the game on time.
  

• Environment Artist at Electronic Arts

  Redwood City, United States of America

  February 2004 - January 2006

  The Godfather
  
  • Responsibility given above position to act as object lead at the beginning and end of the
  
  project, writing design docs, coordinating with engineering and design.
  
  • Research and deliver a multitude of interior props as directed by the Art Director ahead of
  
  schedule.
  
  • Work with engineers to prototype and test layout tools to quickly populate a massive open
  
  world with buildings and exterior props that met the changing needs of the design team.