Experience

• Principal/Lead Environment Artist at Blizzard Entertainment

  Irvine, United States of America

  September 2018 - Present

  - Creating complex assets, textures and world development for an unannounced console and PC title
  
  - Helping develop future pipelines for asset and world creation
  

• Lead Artist, Producer, and Designer at Capybara Games

  Toronto, Canada

  February 2014 - Present

  - Building out procedural elements for the game world
  
  - Creating and managing the entire team's tasks and schedule
  
  - Planning, scheduling and implementing large game design elements
  
  - Working with programmers to modify the initially slow and difficult 3D workflow for creating game content to make it more streamlined
  
  - Teaching 3D to the art team

• Environment Modelling and Texturing Professor at Seneca College

  Toronto, Canada

  September 2008 - August 2016

  - Independently developing the Environment Modelling, Texturing, and Portfolio Creation class curriculums from the ground up
  
  - Working with industry experts to discuss the quality of the program’s I build and ensuring they keep with the rapidly changing industry standards
  
  - Assisting students in finding work and matching studios up with students
  
  - Organizing artists in the industry to do talks and panels for the school

• Lead Environment Artist at Ubisoft Toronto

  Toronto, Canada

  July 2011 - February 2014

  - Co-creating Starlink: Battle of Atlas, acting as a lead, developing our visual tone with assistance from the art director, training junior artists, and exploring future content creation pipelines while delivering content for our milestones
  
  - Modelling on Splinter Cell Blacklist as a Senior Team Member
  
  - Taking a level from Greyblock to Final art polish and bug fixing
  
  - Modelling and texturing props and structures
  
  - Working independently I took one section of our level and acted as Level Artist and Designer to revamp a troubled area into one of our key set piece scenes

• Senior Environment Artist at Bedlam Games

  Toronto, Canada

  February 2011 - July 2011

  - Leading the environment team on GammaWorld: Alpha Mutations
  
  - Building out the in game look and feel for the the world
  
  - Directing environment design in each level ensuring each area can tell a unique story
  
  - Creating props, modular level art, complex materials, textures
  
  - Creating complex materials to increase the speed of asset creation in our pipeline
  
  - Verifying art quality
  
  - Mentoring and managing Junior Artists

• Concept Artist & Environment Modeler at Frozen North Productions

  Toronto, Canada

  August 2008 - February 2011

  - Producing illustrations, colour swatches and detailed asset concepts for game worlds for use in outsourcing
  
  - Developing the look and feel for the six different worlds in Flip’s Twisted World
  
  - Modelling and Texturing environmental assets, set pieces, and character models
  
  - Creating game pitches and art for publisher meetings

• 3D Artist at Pseudo Interactive

  Toronto, Canada

  August 2007 - February 2008

  - Modeling and texturing tasks for; vehicles, props, characters, and environments
  
  - Quickly learning and building high level shaders for unannounced Xbox360/PS3 game
  
  - Creating concept art for a variety of vehicles and weapons
  
  - Often being placed in many different positions and adapting quickly to each one