Experience

• Instructor/Supervisor at Think Tank Training Center

  Vancouver, Canada

  August 2018 - Present

  Duties:
  
  •Creating online instructional courses for Substance Designer
  
  •Guiding students through the digital development of their environment portfolios.
  
  •Developing and understanding industry standard pipelines for instructional purposes.

• Senior Environment Artist / Shader Artist at Electronic Arts

  Burnaby

  November 2021 - November 2023

  • Environment production and optimization
  
  • Pipeline standardization and Workflow development
  
  • Shader and Material Development

• Lead Environment Artist at ArtsUnited

  Edmonton

  April 2021 - April 2023

  Remote - Contract

  Duties:
  
  • Environment production and optimization
  
  • Pipeline standardization and Workflow development
  
  • Team relations budgeting and communication
  
  • Clientele communication and relations.

• Senior Environment Artist at Beamdog Studios

  Edmonton, Canada

  March 2020 - October 2021

  Duties:
  
  • Texture development for procedural tiles within substance designer for stylized PBR.
  
  • Level and Worlds development for game production
  
  • Pipeline development and standardization of industry practices

• Senior Environment Artist at Dekogon

  Vancouver, Canada

  November 2018 - April 2019

  Remote Contract

  Duties:
  
  • Texture development for procedural Tiles within Substance designer.
  
  • Prop and asset development for contracted projects.
  
  • Coordination with project leads to maintain healthy international schedule

• Environment / Lighting Artist at Electronic Arts

  Vancouver, Canada

  November 2017 - August 2019

  At EA I work on the development of FIFA titles, scene building, texturing and environment modeling all come into play in a generalist role regarding development for switch. Optimizations for the mobile platform take priority at times, but that serves the challenge of creating great art for AAA productions.

• Environment Artist at Piranha Games

  Vancouver, Canada

  November 2015 - November 2017

  At Piranha I had the opportunity to really focus on hard surface modelling as I primarily made cockpits for their mech based shooter mwo. Later on in the production I was able to expand my role contributing to environment production on MW5 as well. As my first experience with a large production pipeline Piranha has cemented itself as a key point in my career signifying both cooperation and dynamic performance in a strong team based setting.

• Environment Artist at Flying Helmet Games

  Vancouver, Canada

  September 2014 - November 2015

  FHG was my first experience working in a game studio. Previous freelancing experience couldn't hold the torch to being apart of the team and working together to create an associated product. While at FHG I had the opportunity to create the majority of the environments for Eon Altar and was even fortunate enough to work in VR for a time contributing to Call of the Starseed. In these roles I fell in love with substance designer as a production asset, and its stuck with me since.

• Freelance Artist at Fenrir Studios

  Vancouver, Canada

  August 2014 - January 2015

  After my graduation I worked for a period of time remotely with Fenrir studios on a vr demo for their tactical shooter Dark storm. On the project I created a variety of assets including statues, buildings, and interiors. When tasks at Flying Helmet games grew more demanding I had to step away from the project, but it was an perfect introduction to the games industry.

• Graphic Designer at Athabasca Advocate

  Athabasca, Canada

  November 2011 - September 2012

  At the advocate I was responsible for Advertising development, communication with clients, and organization of print layout for distribution.

  As my first introduction to digital production the roots of my career and my fundamentals were developed here. It really took off from this point as I discovered the potential for 3D.