American Academy of Art-Chicago, Illinois (1984-1986) Majors: Architectural Rendering, Illustration and Figure Drawing
University of Wisconsin-Marathon Campus (1981-1983) Major: Architecture, Minor: Fine Art/Design
Twisted Pixel Games-Austin, Texas 05/13-Present
Lead Environment Artist -(reports to Art Director/Creative Director) Currently working on an unannounced project providing Environment Look Development Content for PC and Oculus. Scheduling, Software Training, Modeling, Texturing, Environment Rigging, Physics and Destruction Simulations, Collaboration with Design, Engineering, Animation, Outsourcing and Upper Management.
Plural Sight - Utah/Oklahoma 12/14-12/17
Guest Tutor - Blog Author -(reported to Content Editors) Digital Training Course Creation for online subscription based training videos. Courses include Content Creation relative to Console Video Games. Also Authored Blog Interviews, Editorials and ZBrush Tips when available.
Raven Software-Middleton, Wisconsin 10/08-04/11
Senior Environment Artist (Call of Duty (MW3), Call of Duty (Black Ops), Singularity, Un-Announced Titles) providing Environment Team Management, Scheduling, Software Training, Game Art including: Prototyping, Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, Set Dressing, Performance Evaluation, Optimization, Porting, Concept Illustration and Coordination with Production, Design, Art Tech, Programmers and Outsourcing.
Midway Games-Chicago, Illinois 12/97-10/08
Environment Lead (Psi-Ops, Stranglehold, Mortal Kombat vs. DC-Comics) providing Environment Team Management, Scheduling, Software Training, Game Art including: Prototyping, Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, Set Dressing, Optimization, Pipeline Development, Animation, Photo Retouching, Concept Illustration and Coordination with Production, Concept, Design, Art Tech, Programmers and Outsourcing.
Williams Illustration-Chicago, Illinois (Advertising Illustration) 11/91-12/97
Principal Airbrush & Digital Illustration, Art Direction and Design for Advertising, Editorial and Corporate Clients. Appeared in the Chicago Talent Sourcebook 13-page 233, 14-page 210, 15-page 144 and American Showcase Illustration 18-page 1032, 19-page 1478.
Tainer Associates, Ltd.-Chicago, Illinois (Architectural /Graphics Firm) 2/88-11/91
Architectual Illustrator Commercial and Residential Architectural Rendering from Layout through Full Color, Camera Ready Illustration, Design, Keyline, Paste up, Drafting, Coordination with Suppliers.
Windows and Macintosh
Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop, Substance Suite, Quixel Suite, Unreal, Radiant, Unity, PIX, Max, Rayfire, Illustrator, After Effects, Topogun, xNormal, Crazybump, Perforce, Microsoft Office Suite and numerous other plug-ins and software. Platforms include: Oculus (PC), Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, Playstation2, Playstation3 and Wii
Broadcast Television-Wausau, Wisconsin Producing and airing full-screen and still-key graphics for live news, weather and sports at CBS, WSAW, Channel 7. System consisted of an integrated IBM Arttron paintbox, Telesystems CHYRON font generator, ISI-903 effects panel and Hitachi Video Camera.