EDUCATION

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

BS, Computer Science

Projected Graduation: August 2017

 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

BS, Electronic Arts, May 2012

Concentration: Visual Arts & Animation

GPA 3.66/4.0, Cum Laude

 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

3D Artist, Rail Dynamics Group, Troy NY, June 2013-Oct 2013

+ Edited, made UV maps and textured locomotive engine and freight car models

+ Modeled and textured low-poly environments replicating real-world buildings

+ Modeled and textured game assets to populate environment

3D Artist, Gather Education, Boston MA, June 2012-Oct 2012

+ Optimized/designed 3D models of new rooms and their assets in Maya

+ Textured and lit rooms, baked lighting using Mental Ray

+ Imported 3D assets into Unity and set up art assets in scene

+ Polished avatar textures and icons with Photoshop

Teaching Asst. for Animation 1, RPI, Troy NY, Sep 2011-May 2012

+ Helped students understand technical and artistic methods used for modeling, rigging, texturing, lighting, and animation in Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro

+ Created tutorials on Maya’s interface and tools

Art Intern, Nanotoon Entertainment, Troy NY, Oct 2010-Dec 2010

+ Made vector art, 3D scenes and models from concepts (Linux environment) for an interactive, educational children’s website

PROJECTS

+ Personal, Oct 2012-present - Modeled characters with Maya to ZBrush workflow, made normal, specular, and texture maps on low poly mesh. Completed Python course on Codecademy. Modeled, texutre and rendered 3D game assets for flash puzzle game.

+ Cheetah Life, Aug 2011-May 2012 - Fully rendered, one-minute animation with two modeled, textured, rigged, and animated quadrupeds in an environment with dynamic grass created with Maya’s hair and fur systems. Art thesis, solo project.

+ Yamada Box Legend, Jan 2011-May 2011 - 3D Unity game made with a team of six people in Game Development 2 at RPI. I rigged and animated the main character. I also modeled and textured the dice-rolling scene.

 

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Copy & Print Assoc., Staples, St Albans VT, Jan 2014-present

+ Provide comprehensive printing solutions to store guests and small businesses

+ Perform quality copy and print orders, maintain workstation of several machines

Art Department Work-Study, RPI, Troy NY, Oct 2008-May 2010

+ Updated website, documents for department

+ Designed posters and assisted curators for EMPAC and iEAR events

Research Assistant, RPI, Troy NY, June 2010-Sept 2010

+ Scanned and gathered historical data from books, entered information into Excel sheets for research on disruptive technological change and industries from circa 1900 to present

Customer Service Assoc., Price Chopper, Glenmont NY, Aug 2006-Jan 2010

+ Assisted store guests with problems and processed their banking transactions

+ Balanced all front end cash drawers nightly

 

SKILLS AND APPLICATIONS

+ Modeling, rigging, animation, lighting in Maya

+ Rendering and generating light maps with Mental Ray

+ Sculpting, 3D painting in Zbrush

+ Normal, specular, displacement, alpha, occlusion map creation

+ Texture painting/creation with Photoshop

+ Programming in C++ and Python

+ Web design in Dreamweaver using HTML and CSS