Experience

• Principal Environment Artist at Highwire Games

  Seattle, WA (remote), US

  August 2023 - January 2025

  Six Days in Fallujah (Early Access - Single Player, Co-Op, Multiplayer; TBD/PC)
  
  ▪ Creating/Updating modular/procedural environments (interior/exterior) for major war areas in the game + Auditing the builds
  
  due to quick release schedules for project backers
  
  ▪ Guiding the team on middle eastern architecture based on past knowledge and references and mentoring Jr artists
  
  ▪ Working closely with Creative direction, Art direction, Engineering and Design to solve variety of issues emanating from the
  
  procedural nature of the title
  
  ▪ Taking leadership for improving traversal in the entirety of the game
  
  ▪ Art leadership in one of the 2 announced Campaign levels

• Senior Level Artist/Architect at Ghost Story Games

  Westwood, MA (remote), US

  January 2020 - July 2023

  ▪ Serving as lead level architect in creating/designing environments for this unique title with multitudes of layers of complexity
  
  from concept to the final polish phase with strong focus on environmental storytelling and narrative
  
  ▪ Creating a variety of exemplar levels for establishing the look of the game and resolving all the incoming issues in the process.
  
  ▪ Creating documentation and guidance for the rest of the team (inhouse and multiple outsourcing studios) with regards to all the
  
  level building updates/techniques; reviewing all the upcoming work to make sure the quality of the entire game stays consistent.
  
  ▪ Working closely with Creative direction, Art direction, Engineering and Design to solve variety of puzzles/issues emanating from
  
  the unique nature of the title and level mechanics
  
  ▪ Taking ownership of all the modeling, Texturing and Shaders in the game by either tackling the task myself or directing/guiding 4
  
  external outsourcing teams (reviewing about 15-20 assets on a daily basis)
  
  ▪ Being involved with technical Art, Lighting, Composition and atmosphere and mentroting Jr artist in the team

• Lead Environment Artist at Tangent Games

  Burbank, CA, United States of America

  August 2019 - December 2017

  Unannounced “Google Stadia” Title
  
  (single-player; TBA)
  
  - Establishing the entire art pipeline for a procedurally generated game with AAA quality on Unreal4
  
  - Creating the entire shader/material network which can support such high quality extended for the proceduralism
  
  - Creating all art for levels in collaboration with the design team
  
  - Supervising and integrating outsourced assets into the pipeline

• Environment Artist - Modeling at Naughty Dog - Sony

  Santa Monica, United States of America

  January 2019 - July 2019

  Last of Us - Part 2
  
  (single-player; PS4)
  
  - Model realistic looking 3D environments, based off an idea/concept or real-world references
  
  - Worked closely with Art direction and Level Design as a team to plan and execute the creation of a level

• Associate Principal Artist at Pocket Gems

  San Francisco, United States of America

  September 2017 - December 2018

  - Working with Art Director on establishing the look for the next evolution of “Episodes”
  
  - Creating new PBR pipeline to be used in conjunction with proprietary 3D engine and documenting the workflow
  
  - Establishing the look of Episode backgrounds in 3D space and communicating with outsourcing for re-paints

• Senior Creative/ Lead Artist at Outward Inc

  San Jose/CA, United States of America

  April 2015 - Present

  ● Leading the Pilot team in creating outstanding/lifelike 3D representation of real​ world objects and scenes for various presentation formats (image/video) for variety of clients each with their own unique set of challenges
  
  ● AR (Google Tango)/VR asset optimizations and integration in Unity

• Environment Artist at Sledgehammer Games

  Foster City/CA, United States of America

  February 2013 - February 2015

  ● Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (single​player/multiplayer)
  
  ● Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare ​ DLC1/DLC2

• Environment Artist at Raven Software

  Middleton/WI, United States of America

  April 2011 - January 2013

  ● Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (single​player/multiplayer)
  
  ● Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ​ DLC1/DLC2/DLC4
  
  ● Call of Duty: Black Ops2 (multiplayer)
  
  ● Call of Duty: Ghost (multiplayer)

• Director/Creator at self-funded Short Films

  San Francisco, United States of America

  October 2007 - August 2010

  ● Parallel Lines – Runaway A short I made for Philips TV ​ Parallel Lines competition through Ridley Scott associated agency
  
  ● Iceshed Short film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1523306/ ) A 13​minute full​-CG short film based on my own script through every stage of production previz/modeling /texturing /animation /mocap /VFX /compositing /editing /sound design)

• Sequence Supervisor/ Techincal Artist at Cinematico Inc

  San Francisco, United States of America

  August 2008 - December 2007

  ● Monster vs. Aliens (Game Cinematic – 5 sequences) Technical director working on hair/cloth/lighting/effects/rendering
  
  ● Xavier: Renegade Angel (TV show ​ 9 episodes) Sequence supervisor, working with all the team responsible for animation and making sure all the shots on each episode get delivered on the deadline as per client’s request