Summary
Pocket Gems - San Francisco, CA - June 2014 to Present
Senior Artist / Producer
Zynga - San Francisco, CA - September 2009 to June 2014
Lead Artist
Warm and Fuzzy Logic - October 2008 to September 2009
Bachelor of Arts in Animation & Game Design
Ferris State University - Grand Rapids, MI 2008
Associate of Arts in Graphic Design
Grand Rapids Community College - Grand Rapids, MI
2005
Some games that I've worked on featured by Apple:
- 9 years in the video game industry with a proven track record of excellent leadership, artistic, production, and technical skills.
- Created strong relationships between artists, programmers, designers and outsource vendors.
- Improving Farmville art pipeline,managing art production schedule, resulting in saving the company an
- estimated 400 man hours.
- Worked on several wildly successful shipped titles including Farmville, Mafia Wars, GoDance World Tour,
- Night at the Museum, Paradise Cove, Campus Life, and GoPets: A virtual pet mmorpg.
- Willing to relocate: Anywhere
- Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Pocket Gems - San Francisco, CA - June 2014 to Present
- Currently managing an internal team of artists, programmers and designers for an unannounced project.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including Art Directors, PMs, Programmers, Artists,
- Designers.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in social, free-to-play, and mobile games.
- War Dragons / Campus Life / Night at the Museum: Hidden Treasures / Paradise Cove / Secret Passages /
- Hidden Agendas
- Created production schedule for multiple games at once, keeping several outsource studios on track using Agile/Scrum and very familiar with JIRA and basecamp.
- Helped manage internal and external schedule to launch two successful games.
- Critiqued and directed art work sent by outsource studios, 3D, painted, and vector art for various games.
- Created new tracking procedures adopted by the company to improve work flow.
- Created visual and technical style guides for studios to follow.
- Managed a budget for outsource vendors.
- Managed audio production for an outsource studio and edited many samples in-house.
- Worked on existing IP Night at the Museum, partnering with FOX and creating visual likeness of actors.
Senior Artist / Producer
Zynga - San Francisco, CA - September 2009 to June 2014
- Saved over 400 man hours with process changes and tool improvements in one quarter alone.
- Worked cross discipline to ensure quality art done on or ahead of schedule.
- Oversaw the entire art team in handing off the game to another studio. Planned several pages of documentation
- on the Farmville art style.
- Managed a team of 4 artists, vendors as direct reports, working with 6 outsource in an agile project
- environment.
- Trained 2 interns and 3 junior artists on Farmville art style, brand and technical aspect of animation.
- Provided vector based art and flash animations for several top selling assets.
- Artist - Mafia Wars 2
- Produced 3D models and textures along with vector art, UI Elements, and flash animation.
- Reviewed art that came back from outsource.
Lead Artist
Warm and Fuzzy Logic - October 2008 to September 2009
- Created 3D environments, props, textures for the games GoDance and MMORPG GoPets.
- Designed UI from wireframes to completion for GoDance and Book of Secrets.
- Interacted with community, creating buzz, managing contests and performed GM duties.
- Wrote quest text along with designing in-game item art requests.
Bachelor of Arts in Animation & Game Design
Ferris State University - Grand Rapids, MI 2008
Associate of Arts in Graphic Design
Grand Rapids Community College - Grand Rapids, MI
2005
Some games that I've worked on featured by Apple:
