Experience

• President and Game Director at Punkzilla

  US

  March 2022 - Present

• Content Artist - Specialist at Epic Games at Epic Games

  Irvine

  October 2020 - March 2022

  ⦁ Research and development for derivative assets using Quixel Megascans content.
  
  ⦁ Created environment art marketing material for Quixel/Epic Games.
  
  ⦁ Lead the UE5 megascans 'assembly' pipeline. Taught and managed a team in both the US and Pakistan to develop assemblies to be released on the Unreal Marketplace and Quixel Bridge.
  
  ⦁ Optimized environments during new technology developments and optimized full projects.
  
  ⦁ Assisted in tools for UE5. Mainly the geometry tools.
  
  ⦁ Created environments for use in Virtual Production.
  
  ⦁ Went on scouting trips to assist and scan environments for the Megascans library.

• Lead 3D Artist at Nexon OC

  Irvine

  December 2017 - July 2020

  ⦁ Responsible for all environment art and level design.
  
  ⦁ Manage, collaborate, and communicate with a team of artists and directors to meet deadlines
  
  and milestones.
  
  ⦁ Developed pipelines to speed up processes on asset creation using Houdini and Quixel Mixer.

• Senior Environment Artist at Blind Squirrel Games

  Irvine, United States of America

  July 2015 - December 2017

  -Responsible for full level art and design with gameplay in mind.
  
  -Inject story into environments through world building, set dressing, and lighting.
  
  -Model and texture assets and environments.
  
  -Model and texture weapons and vehicles.

• Environment Artist at Electronic Arts - Visceral Games

  Redwood City, United States of America

  April 2014 - July 2015

  -Model and texture assets for use in the Frostbite 3 Engine for both multi-player and single player environments. Each asset includes up to five LOD's with custom collision, raycast, and enlighten mesh.
  
  -Create elaborate destructible assets and clusters with part linking or schematics for believable destruction.
  
  -World build to help tell story through the use of placing assets in both multi-player and single player environments.
  
  -Edit existing models in game: Geometry up-res, texture up-res, optimization, LOD's.

• Instructor at Art Insitute of Hollywood

  Hollywood, United States of America

  August 2013 - April 2014

  -Taught an extensive class on ZBrush and ZBrush techniques to create character models used for both games and film.
  
  -Taught an advanced modeling and texturing class teaching hard surface 3d modeling techniques, UVing, texture baking, PBR texturing, ZBrush pipeline, and rendering.

• Art Lead / Environment Artist at Plastic Piranha

  North Hollywood, United States of America

  March 2012 - April 2014

  -Model and texture weapons, assets, and environments for use in both Unreal 4 and Unreal 3 engine.
  
  -Responsible for re-texturing all weapons (32+) for Rekoil.
  
  -Art liaison with an outsourcing art house to convey art direction, concept art and 3d art for Alone in the Dark: Illumination.
  
  -Collaborate with a large team in office and overseas.

• Cinematic Artist / 3d Artist at Ember Lab

  Orange County, United States of America

  September 2011 - March 2012

  -Create High Quality 3D models and textures for the use in film
  
  -Model and texture assets for use in the Unity engine.