Experience

• Environment Artist at CACI, Inc.

  Norfolk, VA, US

  May 2024 - Present

  • Collaborate on modular, game-ready hard-surface environment assets for Unity-based training simulation, using optimized UVs, baked maps, PBR materials, and engine-ready integration for the Career Training Continuum program for the Fire Controlman Aegis (FCA) rating
  
  • Lead large-scale modular assemblies, coordinating multiple contributors to keep visuals, technical quality, and delivery on schedule
  
  • Partner with SMEs, instructional designers, and Unity developers to ensure assets and systems function correctly for simulation use and meet project requirements
  
  • Mentor colleagues on development pipeline workflows and project standards, helping improve consistency across the team
  
  • Identify production inefficiencies and develop Python and JavaScript tools to streamline export, texture linking, UV syncing, cleanup, mesh optimization, and more
  
  • Build QA tools and documentation to catch UV, geometry, and transform issues and make plugins easier to adopt across the team
  
  • Recognized with the WOW Award for above-and-beyond performance on a technically challenging client deliverable
  
  • Support 2D graphics team as needed

• 3D Environment Artist at Noland Creative

  Richmond, VA, US

  December 2021 - June 2023

  ・ Period of employment was between December 2021 - August 2022 and May 2023 – June 2023
  
  ・ Work closely with the Art Director to brainstorm and conceptualize the deliverables
  
  ・ Translate customer requirements into a wide variety of graphics products, working with the facility designs, floor plans, logos, process charts, and other materials
  
  ・ Construct and customize a variety of 3D assets, models, and textures utilizing Autodesk 3DS Max
  
  ・ Deliver consistently excellent architectural visualizations at all stages of the project lifecycle to maintain client satisfaction
  
  ・ Create and refine complex environments in Unreal Engine. Animate the camera showcasing buildings, interiors, and environments within the engine

• Freelance 3D Artist and Generalist at Various Clients

  US

  February 2018 - April 2024

  ・ Create 3D models and graphics for illustrations for various corporate clients
  
  ・ Create a professional printing shop-ready copy for a non-profit journal based on regular PDF files, using Adobe InDesign
  
  ・ Edited videos by removing unintended background elements via rotoscoping
  

• Student at VCU School of the Arts

  Richmond, United States of America

  August 2019 - May 2023

  ・Bachelor of Fine Arts in Kinetic Imaging, Magna Cum Laude