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Professional Experience

Griptonite Games
December 2008 - Present

Credited As : Lead Designer, Designer
-Lead overall project design as Lead Designer on two titles
- Designed and scripted levels for 2D platformer game and 3D platformer game
-Authored game design documents and production documentation
-Modeled level 2D and 3D level collision (whitebox)
-Wrote event script in proprietary scripting software

Webfoot Technologies, Inc
April 2006 - December 2008 (2 years, 8 months)

Credited As : Lead Artist, Lead Designer, Artist, Scripter
-Created 2D and 3D assets for use in DS, PC, GBA games
-Created many low-poly character models used in DS games
-Scripted and debugged game event script in both proprietary script languages and lua
-Wrote many high concept documents and four major design documents
-Monitored a team of artists and programmers
-Communicated development issues between individuals involved with development
-Meet submission deadlines
-Communicated with programmers to develop proprietary DS engine
-Built menu systems in Flash
-Managed bug lists, fixed bugs, proposed solutions to fixing bugs to other members of the team
-Active contributor of tutorials and development knowledge to the company's private Wiki

High Voltage Software
September 2005 - December 2005

Role: Art intern
-Modeled 3D modeling environment assets for city of Chicago skyline animation
-Edited sound files

Shipped Titles
For the sake of brevity, I have only included titles to which I contributed a significant amount of work.

Unannounced 3D Platformer Title (2010) (Nintendo DS)
Credited as: Lead Designer

The Princess and the Frog (2009) (Nintendo DS)
Credited as: Designer

Solitaire Mahjong: Ancient China Adventure (2009) (Nintendo DS)
Credited as: Lead Artist, Lead Scripter, box cover artist

Dream Day Wedding Destinations (2009) (Nintendo DS)
Credited as: Lead Artist, Co-Lead Designer, Menu Designer

American Girl: Kit Mystery Challenge! (2008) (Nintendo DS)
Credited as: Lead Character Artist, Co-Lead Designer, Dialog Scripter, Scripter (general)

American Girl: Julie Finds a Way (2007) (Nintendo DS)
Credited as: Lead Designer, Lead Artist, Dialog Scripter, Scripter (general)

Tonka: On the Job (2006) (PC)

Credited as: Lead Artist, Lead Scripter

My Little Pony: The Runaway Rainbow (2006) (PC)

Credited as: Artist, Lead Scripter

Proficiencies
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk Maya
Macromedia Flash and ActionScript
Corel Painter
Countless proprietary softwares and tools

Skills
Lua and proprietary scripting languages for game events
Organization and scheduling for game projects
Whitebox creation for 2D and 3D pipelines
Design document creation
Small team management

Education
The Illinois Institute of Art – Schaumburg
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Game Art & Design
March 2006

Awards and Honors
Best Level Design award at the Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg's ARTimation festival
President’s List (4.0 GPA) achieved all quarters attended at The Illinois Institute of Art – Schaumburg
Academic Scholarship Award all quarters attended at The Illinois Institute of Art – Schaumburg

More information is available upon request.


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