Experience

• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - Senior Artist at Treyarch

  Los Angeles, United States of America

  January 2019 - Present

  - Shipped BOCW during a Global Pandemic!!!
  
  - Managed delivery of Zombie Mega Barrel weapons for S4 Mauer Der Toten DLC. Oversaw all aspects of production process including: Implementation, OS quality bar requirements, file structure setup, and deadlines.
  
  - Supervised Zombie Weapon art feedback, and quality bar requirements with overseas, and subsidiary OS partners throughout production.
  
  - Tasked with Art Directing Zombie Wonder Weapon design changes in 3D. Alterations were pitched, implemented, and shipped.
  
  - Demonstrated expert aptitude in next gen, hard surface modeling practices, and requirements. Utilizing Maya, further implemented coined “Mid-Res” modeling technique into weapon production pipeline.
  
  - Fabricated 3D solutions for a variety of weapons lacking concept support, in addition to existing weapon concepts requiring legal changes.
  
  - Implemented numerous Weapon Blueprints in line with franchise business model requirements.
  
  - Concepted Weapon Blueprints from scratch with only a theme in mind. Continuously met rigorous deadlines.
  
  - Mentored new, and existing team members in a variety of disciplines related to asset creation throughout all stages of production.
  
  - Responsible for creating weapons, and weapon attachment assets from limited concept art, and real life reference, with little to no direction.
  
  - Worked closely with manager and team mates maintaining an open channel of feedback when necessary.
  
  - Provided honest and constructive feedback to team members working on additional weapons for the game.
  
  - Autonomously completed all assigned tasks, while simultaneously maintaining Zombie Weapon feedback, and delivery deadlines.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - Senior Artist at Treyarch

  Santa Monica, United States of America

  October 2015 - December 2018

  
  - Concepted and implemented first shipped weapon in my professional career, the ABR 223. Worked closely with weapon concept artists to make legal approved modifications to design where necessary.
  
  - Responsible for creating weapons, and weapon attachment assets made purely from concept art, start to finish, with little to no direction. In addition, I modeled a number of weapons that were handed off to team members to take to the finish line.
  
  - Tasked with setting up weapon attachment system on the back-end. Exported game models using provided tools to then plug into the engine, creating complex animated and non-animated attachment combinations. Worked closely with team members to come up with creative solutions to export set ups that would work under the guidelines of the game engine's capabilities.
  
  - Worked closely with manager and team mates maintaining an open channel of feedback when necessary.
  
  - Utilized new tools to properly rig and export bullet and magazine game models, conducive for real time bullet depletion functionality in game.
  
  - Continuously met strict deadlines throughout the three year production cycle.
  
  - Provided honest and constructive feedback to team members working on additional weapons for the game.
  
  - Promoted to Senior Artist during the project.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Artist at Treyarch

  Santa Monica, United States of America

  November 2012 - Present

  - Responsible for creating weapons, and weapon attachment assets made purely from concept art, start to finish, with little to no direction.
  
  - Worked closely with manager and team mates maintaining an open channel of feedback when necessary.
  
  - Incorporated Substance Painter/Designer workflow into the pipeline.
  
  - Continuously met strict deadlines throughout the three year production cycle.
  
  - Was given the freedom to concept changes to weapon design, and make essential calls pertaining to the most ideal screen composition of each weapon I created.
  
  - Provided honest and constructive feedback to team members working on additional weapons for the game.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - Associate Artist at Treyarch

  Santa Monica, United States of America

  November 2010 - November 2012

  - Responsible for creating high poly weapon and weapon attachment view models, in game viewmodels, vm UV layouts, world models and LODs, rigging weapons for animation, and attachment textures.
  
  - Worked closely with manager, and team mates, to meet the highest quality standards of heavily scrutinized weapon assets.
  
  - Promoted to Artist at the end of the DLC cycle (post ship) Displayed the ability to create Call of Duty weapons start to finish, meeting all AAA asset ship standards.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops - Associate Artist at Treyarch

  Santa Monica, United States of America

  May 2009 - November 2010

  - Hand picked by management to join weapons team.
  
  - Responsible for creating nearly all world model weapon assets for Call of Duty: Black Ops
  
  - Learned how to rig and export weapons and vehicles into the game.
  
  - Blocking out attachment view models when needed.
  
  - Worked closely with team members to maintain easy to work with, and organized file structures.
  
  - Introduction to weapon View model and World model screen real estate composition standards, and techniques.

• Call of Duty: World at War - Art Intern at Treyarch

  Santa Monica, United States of America

  December 2008 - May 2008

  - Internship with the ENV team creating props for Call of Duty: World at War DLC
  
  - Developed skills to further increase my aptitude as a 3D artist through the creation of art assets.
  
  - Worked closely with manager to improve my foundation of skills in 3D Modeling, UV layout, and Texturing assets outlined by the specifications within the game engine (tri-counts, texture sizes, and memory footprint implications of assets themselves).
  
  - Utilized tools within the pipeline to implement assets into the game.

• Call of Duty: World at War - QA Tester at Activision

  Santa Monica, United States of America

  July 2008 - December 2008

  QA Tester

  - Responsible for locating, and reporting bugs within the game.
  
  - Utilized dev track to clearly, an concisely report bugs to Treyarch devs.
  
  - Worked Closely with QA manager, and team mates to maintain a clear stream of communication between myself and studio devs.
  
  - Displayed professionalism and strong work ethic throughout the project.