Video Game Work

VR Work

Virtual Reality

Personal Work

Resume

Software

Focus

Knowledgeable

3D Studio Max, Houdini, ZBrush, Photoshop, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Unity, UE4

Maya, After Effects, Mudbox, C#, Max Script, MEL Script, Vex, Python

Education

B.A. Media Arts and Animation

Art Institute of Atlanta

Senior Environment Artist II (Procedural Tech Artist)

Senior Environment Artist & Technical Artist with 15+ years of experience delivering high-fidelity AAA titles and VR environments. Expert in bridging the gap between artistic vision and engineering constraints by developing scalable procedural pipelines and Houdini-based workflows. Proven track record of spearheading studio-wide innovations that drastically increase production efficiency without compromising visual excellence.

Skills

High-quality real-time 3D assets
Material and Shader creation in Unity and Unreal shader graphs (PBR and others)
Unity3D C# Scripting and prototyping
Research and Development

Procedural Content and Pipelines in Houdini (Including Vex and Python code)
Substance Designer PBR texture creation
Cross-departmental collaboration
Visual development (VisDev)

Experience

Electronic Arts (EA), Full Circle Studio - Remote

05/2021 - Present

Senior Environment Artist II (Procedural Tech Art Focus)

SKATE. – Cross-Platform 2026

Collaborated with Art and Technical Directors on initial VisDev, translating artistic vision into technical specifications to define the project's procedural architectural style for 4 distinct urban biomes.
Developed and maintained a scalable Houdini pipeline for 32 unique building kits, ensuring technical stability and performance across the project’s entire architectural library.
Architected a ground-up procedural building generator in Houdini, enabling a team of 5+ artists to produce 200+ high-quality assets while maintaining strict optimization and Art Direction fidelity.
Partnered with Technical Directors and Senior Engineers to refactor procedural logic, delivering a foundational architecture that improved generation speeds by 70% and reduced memory overhead by 40%.

LiveLike VR - Remote

10/2015 - 05/2021

Senior Environment Artist & Unity Tech Artist

FOX VR, ROLAND GARROS VR, MLS VR, SKY VR and others – GearVR and Oculus 2015-2021

Engineered the end-to-end 3D art pipeline for mobile VR (GearVR/Oculus), delivering 10+ high-fidelity environments for global brands including FOX, Sky, and Roland Garros while maintaining a rock-solid 60 FPS on early mobile chipsets.
Developed custom shaders and automated optimization workflows that reduced draw calls by 40% and texture memory usage by 50%, enabling complex social VR environments to run on hardware with limited thermal overhead.
Architected the in-engine visuals for the flagship social sports platform, winning the 2016 TechCrunch "1st and Future" Award and scaling the app to support 4 concurrent users in shared 3D spaces.

Self-Employed

02/2015 - 10/2015

Unity Technical Artist & Senior 3D Artist

CONTRACT PROJECTS – PC & Mobile

Delivered end-to-end 3D asset pipelines for a diverse range of PC and mobile contracts, encompassing high-fidelity character modeling, environment design, and custom material authorship.
Engineered custom C# scripts in Unity to automate asset integration and streamline build maintenance, reducing manual iteration time by 50% across multiple cross-platform projects.

Rockstar San Diego - Carlsbad, CA

10/2005 - 01/2015

Senior Environment Artist

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 – PS4 2018

Engineered high-quality terrain "vertical slices," establishing the technical and aesthetic benchmarks for procedural terrain that met 100% of design requirements without performance regression.
Pioneered the studio’s photogrammetry workflow, developing the foundational pipelines for high-fidelity asset creation and PBR material/shader standards used across the team of 50+ environment artists.

GRAND THEFT AUTO V – PS3 2013

Owned the end-to-end creation of 15+ high-density urban blocks, managing everything from initial layout to final optimization for a seamless, streaming open-world experience.
Architected the LOD and HLOD systems for entire environment sectors, maintaining a consistent 30 FPS on PS3 hardware while maximizing draw distances and visual fidelity.

RED DEAD REDEMPTION – PS3 2010

Partnered with the Lighting Lead to bridge cinematic vision and hardware constraints, optimizing the lighting pipeline for 12+ major gameplay regions and 30+ high-fidelity cutscenes.

MIDNIGHT CLUB: LOS ANGELES – PS3 2008

Partnered with the Design Team to iterate on high-speed urban layouts, balancing complex racing mechanics with dense city environments to ensure zero-hitch performance (30+ FPS) during 100+ MPH gameplay.

Papaya Studios - Irvine, CA

Sep 2002 - Oct 2005

Environment Artist

LARRY BOY AND THE BAD APPLE – PS2 2006

Crafted stylized environment art and lighting, delivering 4+ high-fidelity levels while ensuring 100% adherence to the project’s unique visual style and PS2 performance limits.

TAXI DRIVER – PS2 (Canceled)

Modelled, textured, and lit over 60% of the urban environment for Taxi Driver (PS2), managing dense architectural assets within the era's strict vertex and texture memory budgets.

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