Skills and Software

Experience

• Remotely aided clients in understanding their options when considering marketing and branding for their business.
• Provided solutions to the problem of making a client’s brand feel unique and relevant.
• Facilitated branding and design through websites, logos, business cards, and other staples of corporate identity.
• Through an iterative process, fast-tracked asset creation to paralle with product launch windows.

• GUI and Icon Artist tasked with painting over 70 icons at high resolution.
• Maintained unity, in both color and style, for a wide variety of assets.
• Appointed the freedom to concept each painting, while entrusted to stay true to an existing IP.
• Required to be open and flexible, while providing professional experience, during an iterative design process.

• Lead Artist for ‘Starflight: The Lost Colony’; entrusted with creating a consistent feel throughout all elements of the game.
• Swiftly and accurately rebuilt an existing but disjointed art asset pool.
• Collaborated with Programmers to create a unique, tile-based, terrain building algorithm.
• Created all the final art assets. 12+ functional GUI screens, buttons, sprite sheets for Player and Mobs, as well as tile sheets for Terrain.

• Created daily content for UAT’s internal marketing department. Web/Flash based GUIs, informative and stylish desktop backgrounds, as well as internal posters and fliers.
• Layout Designer: Participated as part of a team in creating intriguing and cohesive design layouts.
• Consistently entrusted with leading roles when placed in teams; creating comfortable and efficient work environments.

• Over 40 hours a week testing prototype hardware/software for compatibility with other products.
• Learned practical use of the scientific method, and how to cross test scenarios against hypothesized variables.
• Learned the intricacies of writing coherent bug reports, predicting bugs through iteration, and creating workarounds while waiting for fixes.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in “Game Art and Design”, with an emphasis on Environment Asset, and GUI, Creation.
• Lead Artist on a student-organized Half Life 2 Mod.
• Charged with developing work-flows regarding asset and texture creation, as well as implementing assets into the Source engine.
• Created in-house tutorials for less experienced modelers and texture-artists.

• Associate’s degree in Multimedia Technologies, with an emphasis on Graphic Design.
• Instructed students with little-to-no artistic background on the concepts of primitive shapes in everyday objects.
• Entrusted to act as Project Manager: Repeatedly assuring that student projects had a unified quality before presenting for finals and graduation.