Experience

• June 2025 - Present
  Lead Technical Artist at High Voltage Software
  Chicago (Remote), US

  -Led, managed, and contributed with the season TA team on CH6MS2. Work included on map & gameplay items: world/fx materials and shaders, gameplay cosmetics, narrative elements, MMOs, POIs, and large set-piece items utilizing material functions, PCG, BPs, data layers, and calendar events.
  
  -Led, managed, and contributed with internal, external, and partner TA teams on UEFN projects. Including: material functionality, lighting asset creation, map and gameplay team support, optimization, platform parity, HLOD support, workflow issue resolution, and bug fixing across 12 maps.
  
  -Led and managed the TA team on OG seasons. We worked closely with our co-dev partners at Epic Games on map iteration & events, including world/fx materials and shaders, lighting support, gameplay cosmetics, narrative elements, sequence maintenance, POIs, and large set-piece items that utilize material functions, PCG, BPs, data layers, and calendar events.
  
  -Designed, implemented, and maintained shaders, materials, material functions, material instances, textures, meshes, and blueprints, ranging in disciplines (environments, characters, objects, interactables, gameplay moments, etc), in UE5.
  
  -Realtime promotional lighting and rendering for hard surface and environment assets
  
  -Asset optimization for multiple platforms - (PC, PS5, XBX) (Switch2, PS4, XBONE) (Perf PC, Switch) (IOS, Android).
  
  -Managed, mentored, and supported the Tech-Art and Lighting team. Team-building meetings and 1-on-1s; setting team and individual goals, task tracking, and providing a space for agency and accountability for individual and team tasking.
  
  -Teamed with production and team leads on scheduling, task management, hiring/recruiting, and coordination on needed tasks.
  
  -Pipeline, workflow, and technical specification documentation for Technical artists & Lighting artists. Including: mode onboarding, best practices, functionality, workflow, and testing documentation for other teams on new material & BP setup.

• January 2023 - June 2025
  Lead Artist | Lead Technical Artist at Iron Galaxy Studios
  Chicago, US

  -Pipeline, workflow, best practices, guidelines, project specification, game production, performance/optimization, team/project onboarding, and technical specification documentation for multiple disciplines (Character, Environments, Hard surface, Technical art, Texture, Material, Lighting).
  
  -Collaborated with production and team leads on scheduling, task management, hiring/recruiting, bug triage, summer internship program, coordination on projects, and art department needs.
  
  -Provided feedback on the artistic look, feel, and visual quality of art assets to reinforce art department and project quality standards. Provided paint-overs, image and video references, Miro board aggregation, and cross-discipline/department communication for clear and concise action items.
  
  -Instituted weekly TA/VFX staff meetings, bi-monthly env art learning sessions, weekly art lead team meetings to resolve cross-team needs and emergent issues, monthly 1:1 art lead syncs with over 35 project ICs, direct manager to 11 art team members across multiple disciplines, weekly checkpoints with direct reports, and provided clear career growth for technical, VFX, and lighting artists.
  
  -Designed, implemented, and maintained shaders, materials, material functions, material instances, textures, curves, MPCs, and TA/Lighting blueprints in UE4/UE5 for all art disciplines.
  
  -Asset, material, scene, and lighting optimizations for Gen 7, 8, & 9 platforms.
  
  -Created and maintained editor utility widgets that visualize PBR material attributes, validation, and PBR lighting within Unreal to streamline the polish and optimization work.

• August 2021 - January 2023
  Lead Technical Artist at High Voltage Software
  Hoffman Estates, US

• August 2019 - August 2021
  Technical | Cosmetics Artist at High Voltage Software
  Hoffman Estates, US

• September 2016 - August 2019
  Art Manager | Senior Artist at Reliance Games
  Chicago, US

• September 2014 - September 2016
  Lead Environment Artist at Robomodo
  Chicago, US

• September 2012 - September 2014
  Environment Artist at Robomodo
  Chicago, US

• November 2011 - July 2012
  Junior Environment Artist at Robomodo
  Chicago, US