Position Desired:

Tech art position, Tools development, or Game play engineer.

(I'm also very interested in edutainment and simulations.)

Qualifications:

Extensive experience (eleven years) in developing games for Consoles and PC as a software engineer, technical artist, and animator. Experienced tools developer. Due to such a diverse background and skill set, I communicate well with engineers and art staff.

Software

• Visual Studio C++, Visual Studio C#, Maya, 3d Studio Max, PhotoShop

Experience:

SEGA Studios (Secret Level) San Francisco, CA 2007– 2010

Iron Man 2 X-Box 360, PS3 2010

• Head tech artist for cinematic team

• Developed key multi-camera real-time cinematic preview tool (MEL) for Maya

• Consulted on development of new cinematic tool chain

Golden Axe X-Box 360, PS3 2008

Iron Man X-Box 360, PS3 2008

• Tech artist for cinematic team (using highly complex cinematic tool chain)

Perpetual Entertainment San Francisco, CA 2006 – 2007

Gods and Heroes (MMO) PC (Canceled)

• Supported existing in-house tools (added features and debugged)

• Developed Maya plug-ins (such as a Renderware Studio DFF importer)

• Developed in-house C# tools (such as XML asset file parsers and searching)

• Used Renderware Author to create a striped down “stream” building utility

Stormfront Studios San Rafael, CA 1995 – 2003

Lord of the Rings PS2 EA 2002

• Worked as part of a team to animate all characters in the game

(Responsible for UrukHai Melee, Orc Archer, and Elvin Warrior)

• Developed specialty 3DS Max scripts to aid in the animation process

• Created several animations used for “in-game cinematics” (in-game cut scenes)

• Created several “in-game cinematics”

Blood Wake X-Box Microsoft 2001

• Animated everything that moves (except the boats)

• Specified and scheduled animation tasks

• Modeled and mapped initial pass on Player characters and Boss character

• Created several 3DS Max scripted specialty tools for environment team

Hot Wheels Turbo Racing PSX, N64 EA 1999

• Modeled and co-designed Helix Track

• Created MAX Script tools

(track placement , collision volumes and tools for PS1 conversion)

• Modeled 6 of the cars used in the game.

• Designed Volcano Island (level was cut due to project constraints)

NASCAR PSX, N64, PC EA Sports 1998

• Modeled cars

• Created victory animations

Tony La Russa Baseball 4 PC Stormfront/Maxis 1997

• Modeled baseball stadiums

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 PC, Mac Viacom New Media 1996

• Character Animation (including main murder sequence)

Education:

The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, CA (2003 - 2006)

Bachelor of Science, Visual and Game Programming

College of Marin – San Rafael, CA

Acting courses

American Film Institute Professional Classes – Los Angeles, CA

Lighting, camera and FX seminars