Resume

Education      

Master of Science in Visualization Sciences:
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  • Graduate Fellowship Recipient

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design:
University of Texas, Austin, TX

  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude
  • Minor equivalents in Biology and English
  • Elements of Computer Science Certificate

 

Work Experience

ILM – Industrial Light and Magic (ILM XLAB)

Experience Designer (promoted)

Associate Experience Designer

Designing real-time immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality games and experiences

  • Creating scripts to control the narrative flow and interactive functionalities of game and experience levels
  • Integrating and choreographing animation, audio, and special effects assets
  • Iterating rapid prototypes of scenes and systems in Unreal and Unity
  • Communicating via design documentation, creative interaction schematics, and development specification briefs
  • Collaborating with global multi-disciplinary development and
    engineering teams
  • Conducting playtesting sessions to gather user experience feedback
  • Shipped titles include: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, Vader Immortal Episodes 2 & 3, What If…?: An Immersive Story, Star Wars: Beyond Victory

 

ILM – Industrial Light and Magic

Senior External Assistant Technical Director (promoted)

External Assistant Technical Director                                                 

Managed, reviewed, and tracked work sent out to or received from 3rd-party studios for live-action movies and Disney Theme Park rides

  • Ingested and integrated large volumes and varieties of vendor assets for up to 5 major VFX projects at a time
  • Automated shot setup process for the Layout department, reducing artists’ initial workflow preparation time by an average of 4 hours
  • Enhanced ingest pipeline codebase to keep pace with new developments in software products and digital art methodologies
  • Communicated with internal production, artistic, and support personnel and external vendors to ensure the most efficient transfer of data between studios.
  • Credits include: Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: End Game, Black Panther, Ready Player One, Captain Marvel, Warcraft, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and others.

 

Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Image Unit Assistant Technical Director

Crafted 3D lighting, special effects, rendering, and compositing for promotional images and clips for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Detours, Rebels, and other Lucasfilm properties

  • Lit and digitally painted special feature and teaser posters.
  • Created high resolution still frame images of characters, vehicles, props, and sets for use in licensing and merchandising materials.
  • Produced asset and scene building turntables for DVD special features.
  • Ingested assets and scenes from various outside studios and integrating them into the internal company pipeline.
  • Wrote MEL and Python scripts to maintain and streamline the Image Unit pipeline.
  • Provided troubleshooting and technical support for the Image Unit.
  • Mentored junior members of the Image Unit in lighting, effects, and rendering techniques.
  • Created and maintained documentation of current processes and techniques on internal webpages.

 

Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Image Unit Technical Assistant                     

Generated and delivered information and images of Star Wars: The Clone Wars assets to client companies for toy-making purposes

  • Lit, composited, and rendered asset turntable images.
  • Modified and maintained MEL and Shake scripts to increase pipeline efficiency.
  • Converted assets into various 3D file types to ensure compatibility between different studios’ programs and operating systems.

 

Skills

Unreal Engine, Unity, Maya, MEL script, Nuke, Houdini, Shake, Python, C#, Javascript, Zeno, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Figma/Figjam, ProTools, Max/MSP/Jitter, basic HTML, SQL Server