Experience

• Senior Lighting Artist at Undead Labs

  Seattle

  November 2024 - Present

  I joined Undead Labs as a Senior Lighting Artist to work on the upcoming State of Decay 3.

• Senior Lighting Artist at Firewalk Studios

  Bellevue, US

  August 2022 - October 2024

  I joined Firewalk two years prior to Concord's release, working closely with our map teams and tech art to create PVP maps. During this time, my responsibilities included:
  
  - Lighting six of twelve launch maps, collaborating closely with Level Design, World Art, Skies, and Art Direction to achieve our goal of creating a 70’s-inspired, blue-collar sci-fi world, balancing visual fidelity and gameplay legibility, all while maintaining a consistent 60 fps on PS5.
  
  - Setting up global and local lighting, tuning fog, setting up reflection cubemaps, adjusting lighting and shadowcasting settings on meshes, creating light fixture Blueprints, and bringing performance into our strict budget.
  

• Cinematics Lead at Hardsuit Labs

  Seattle

  November 2019 - March 2021

  At Hardsuit Labs, I've been working on the title "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2." I transitioned from a lighting artist position to the cinematics lead position in 2019, where my responsibilities included:
  
  - Leading multi-discipline internal cinematics team, as well as overseeing our external partner studio that assisted in the creation of cinematics.
  
  - Directing and planning in game cinematics, and coordinating with other studio departments with an emphasis on collaboration and communication.
  
  - Co-directing mocap sessions with our external partners at Digital Domain and Beyond Capture, offering guidance and feedback to our actors.
  
  - Designing rulesets for dialogue and cinematic camera presentation, and working with our engineering team to build tools for cinematic designers.
  

• Lighting Artist at Hardsuit Labs

  Seattle, United States of America

  June 2017 - November 2019

  At Hardsuit Labs, I've been working on the title "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2." I transitioned from an environment artist position to a lighting artist position in 2017, where my responsibilities included:
  
  - Worked to light environments, character dialogue scenes, and in-game cinematics.
  
  - Additional tasks included color grading and tuning post effects such as tonemapping, exposure, bloom, reflection environments, and fog.
  
  - Worked closely with our Lighting Lead on both look development and art direction for different areas in the game, and helped design our light blueprint system that made lighting our game more efficient and consistent.
  
  - Profiled lighting performance and optimized lighting to be within our budgets across multiple specs, including current gen consoles and PC.
  
  - Created blueprint tools for environment and character art teams to quickly test albedo luminosity values in our editor.
  

• Environment Artist at Hardsuit Labs

  Seattle, United States of America

  May 2015 - June 2017

  At Hardsuit Labs, I've been working on the title "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2." I started on the project as an environment artist, where my responsibilities included:
  
  - Created modular architecture and prop models
  
  - Authored PBR material sets, and created master material shaders that were deployed across the project that supported standard features such as vertex color driven material blending and universal wetness controls.
  
  - Collaborated closely with level designers to create world art and set dress environments.
  

• Artist at Mad Otter Games

  Eugene, United States of America

  June 2013 - February 2015

  During my time at Mad Otter Games, I worked on the indie-MMO "Villagers and Heroes" as an 3D Artist. My responsibilities included:
  
  - Modeled and textured modular environment assets, weapons, and player outfits.
  
  - Created ability icons for player UI