Summary
3D animator with seven years of professional experience software development for games. Contributes technical knowledge to a creative environment and can effectively bridge the gap between technical and creative disciplines. A passion for storytelling has led to further education in animation through Animation Mentor, a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Creative Media, and other online programs such as Kyosil.
Experience in Unity, Unreal Engine, Maya, Blender, Houdini, C#, C++, Python, MEL, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and Google Suite.
Education
2022 – 2024 | Lipscomb – MFA in Animation
Producer – Legend of Bill
– Led a team of 13 students through the process of creating a 5-minute short
– Responsible for keeping the director and executive producer up to date with progress
– Performed rendering tasks for the CG shots
2019 – 2021 | Animation Mentor – Character Animation Certificate
2012 – 2016 | Texas A&M University – BS in Computer Science with minors in Art and Mathematics
Work Experience
2018 – 2022 | WIN Reality
WIN Reality provides training and simulation systems for professional, collegiate, and youth athletes. Our baseball product supports thousands of different customers across these markets.
Lead Software Engineer – VR
– Led the VR engineers through the reworking of the user experience within the VR app
– Worked across teams to facilitate the first steps of training content delivery system
– Outlined approaches for feature work and collaborated with team to decide course of action
– Responsible for code reviewing other engineer’s work
– Worked with product to establish specification and requirements for engineering team
Senior Software Engineer
– Created application layer in C# to decouple the transitions of main portions of the VR app
– Created the internal patterns for setting up user interfaces in Unity with Unity prefabs
– Worked with artists and backend engineers to design and build a video asset pipeline
– Ported VIVE product to Oculus Quest
– Designed first iteration of ETL tool to import various baseball data into our app database
– Collaborated on JSON REST APIs for standard communication with database
– Built systems to support both the projector setup and VIVE HMD
– Integrated support for VIVE controllers and trackers in the stereoscopic project setup
2015 – 2017 | Triseum / LIVE Lab at Texas A&M University
Triseum is a startup game company which grew out of the LIVE Lab at Texas A&M University. The company released two shipped titles in one year.
Software Engineer
– Collaborated with team to scope and estimate product features and infrastructure
– Built user interface framework and other tools for artists and designers to use
– Setup a Jenkins build server for one of our products