Work Experience

Iron Galaxy Studios- Technical Artist

August 2021 - February 2025

Games: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4, League of Legends, Rumbleverse

• Led team of 4 technical artists on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 

• Created and implemented VFX using EmberGen, Unreal 5 Niagara, Niagara Script Editor, Blueprints, and Sequencer 

• Prototyped and developed technical art pipelines and created python-based scripts and tools to facilitate artist workflows 

• Wrote documentation on pipelines, workflows, and tools 

• Rigged full human characters, wings, modular character assets, and props 

• Collaborated with external studio partners and internal animators on motion capture pipelines 

• Set up LODs data to reduce/optimize high poly meshes to meet performance constraints 

• Implemented assets and created related metadata for gameplay 

• Created Range of Motion animations for rig deformation and skin weight testing 

• Reviewed, provided feedback on, and approved modeling and rigging work on assets by external artists 

Studio Half- Technical Artist

November 2020 - August 2021

Peblito: Rock & Roll (Steam PC Video Game)

• Rigged 2 characters- Peblito and snail in Maya 

• Set up animation state machines for Peblito, snail in Unreal 4 

• Created and optimized materials/shaders in Unreal 4 Material Graph 

• Created stylized tile able materials/textures using Substance Designer 

• Created and optimized effects with Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Houdini, Unreal 4 Niagara and Blueprints 

UCF SVAD Character Animation- Technical Lead- Rigging/VFX/Rendering

October 2018 - April 2020

Delivery (Short Film)

• Rigged all prop models for keyframes and physics simulations 

• Animated leash with combination of keyframes and simulation 

• Cleaned up/finalized camera animation and settings from initial layout to final look 

• Developed rendering, compositing workflows and wrote step-by-step documentation 

• Wrote scripts and tools in Python, MEL for pipeline 

• Modeled 1 character and environment models using Maya, ZBrush 

• Created fire VFX using After Effects, Maya Hypershade graph 

• Created Substance Painter export presets and set up all 100+ material graphs in Maya/Renderman