Experience

• Lead 3D Game Artist at TastyPill

  United States of America

  March 2021 - Present

  - Manage the creation of 3D art assets for various hyper-casual mobile games from various artists
  
  - Mentor other artists and provide guidance during challenging times
  
  - Optimize new and existing art assets for mobile devices

• 3D Game Artist at TastyPill

  United States of America

  March 2020 - March 2021

  Art and design for hypercasual mobile games including:
  
  - Storyboards
  
  - Design documents
  
  - 3D modeling and texturing

• 3D Modeling / Visual Design at Freelance

  February 2019 - March 2020

  Freelance art and design services focusing on 3D hard surface modeling and texturing, and visual/graphic design.

• Freelance 3D Hard Surface Game Artist at Pixel Constructor

  Remote, United States of America

  February 2017 - June 2019

  - Grumpy Witch: Emilia's Revenge: Rapid creation and iteration of stylized 3D game props and assets for 2.5D platformer. Advised on and de

• 3D Modeler & Texture Artist at MR Systems, Inc.

  Norcross, GA, United States of America

  March 2017 - February 2019

  - Created 3D models of water and wastewater treatment plants and equipment, using layout sketches, diagrams, building plans, cut sheets, and parts documents.
  
  - Worked closely with the Marketing Manager to develop a completely new look for company-wide marketing materials.
  
  - Produced artwork for conference booth, billboard, and internal signage.

• Adjunct Professor at The Art Institute of Atlanta

  Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  October 2017 - September 2018

  - Developed course materials that exposed students to multiple facets of the 3D workflow, and encouraged exploring alternate methods and ways of doing things.
  
  - Classes taught include Game Modeling, Environmental Modeling, Hard Surface and Organic Modeling, Advanced Hard Surface and Organic Modeling.

• Assistant Producer at AGS - American Gaming Systems (formerly Cadillac Jack)

  Duluth, GA, United States of America

  November 2015 - January 2017

  - Coordinated the activities of artists, programmers, designers, and external team members on dozens of games.
  
  - Dramatically cut the time required for milestone estimation and reduced the need for input by automating the estimation process in Excel.
  
  - Managed four complete projects from concept and planning, through production and handoff: Empress Tai Yang, Lucky Peach, Lucky Lamp, and Golden Dragon.
  
  - Imported game assets into Unity game engine and managed game asset library.

• Embedded Game Tester II at Cadillac Jack, Inc. an Amaya Company

  Duluth, GA, United States of America

  June 2013 - November 2015

  - Increased throughput to keep pace as production increased by 20% ± each year.
  
  - Designed and wrote updated test plans and procedures.
  
  - Got new testers quickly up to speed without losing production speed or quality.