WayForward, Santa Clarita, CA

2015-Present

Art Director / Lead Artist

Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Steam), Letter Lullaby (iOS, Android – Square Panda), Disney Descendants (iOS, Android – Disney), PlayOcean: Roulette on Deck (iOS – Princess Cruises), Tagalong Sprint (Princess Cruises), This or That (iOS – Princess Cruises)

  • Ensuring consistent quality and vision for art and license/brand
  • Facilitating creation of benchmark assets that set the bar and inspire others
  • Contributing to studio-level planning for the product
  • Driving art team’s kanban production model
  • Responsible for art team health and morale, providing oversight of team training and resourcing needs; fostering an environment where team members grow their skills and professionally thrive
  • Generating detailed documentation, visual reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors; organizing resources for visual reference (mood boards!) and technical documents related to process and procedures.
  • Organizing internal feedback and sign-off procedures and act as the primary point of contact for communication with outsource partners, maintaining positive long-term relationships with major outsource companies like Original Force, Sparx, Kevuru Games and Bit Egg, Inc.
  • Owning the quality control over all incoming art assets, providing detailed and timely feedback.
  • Leading inter-department communications and supporting all external art requirements to help promote the game pre-and post-launch.

Reading Rainbow, Burbank, CA

2012-2014

Designer / Writer / Art Director

Reading Rainbow App, the #1 App in Education

  • Created visuals to promote the Reading Rainbow App through digital & print ads, email campaigns, social media, and websites as well as a wide variety of marketing collateral.

WayForward, Santa Clarita, CA

2006-2011

Designer / Director / Art Director

Baseball Blast (Wii – 2K Sports), Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck (NDS – WB Games), Where the Wild Things Are (DS – WB Games), SpongeBob: Creature from the Krusty Krab (NDS – THQ), Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem (NDS – Universal), Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus (GBA – Vivendi/Universal)

Art Director

Centipede: Infestation (Wii, 3DS – Atari), SpongeBob Squigglepants (Wii – THQ)

Animation Supervisor

Silent Hill: Book of Memories (Sony VITA – Konami), Bloodrayne: Betrayal (Steam, PS3, Xbox 360 – Majesco), Double Dragon NEON (Switch, Steam, Xbox 360, PS3 – Majesco, Arc System Works), Happy Feet Two (N3DS, DS – WB Games)

Animator

Aliens Infestation (NDS – Sega), Thor: God of Thunder (N3DS, DS – Sega), Batman the Brave and the Bold (Wii – WB Games), Shantae: Risky’s Revenge (Switch, DSi, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, PC, iOS, Stadia – WayForward), Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys (NDS – Activision)

Upstart Games, Dublin, Ireland 

2005-2006

Artist & Animator

Nemo’s Aquarium (Mobile), Miami Vice (Mobile), Topolon (Mobile), Sudoku (Mobile), Final Fight (Mobile), Ape Escape Grand Prix (Mobile), Dance Dance Revolution (Mobile), G-Unit: Free Yayo (Mobile), Tenchu: Ayame’s Tale (Mobile)

  • Worked in the heart of Dublin, Ireland as the staff artist/animator for a variety of publishers on an assortment of mobile games

WayForward, Santa Clarita, CA

1993-2005

Artist & Animator

Ping Pals (NDS – THQ), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Plug-n-Play TV game – Konami), The Batman (Leapster – LeapFrog), Spider-Man and Friends (PC – Activision), SpongeBob: The Movie (Mobile – THQ), SpongeBob: The Movie (GBA – THQ), Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper (GBA – Vivendi/Universal), Spy Vs. Spy (PS2, Xbox – TDK), Rescue Heroes: Billy Blazes (GBA – Vivendi/Universal), Godzilla: Domination! (GBA – Atari), The Scorpion King: The Sword of Osiris (GBA – Vivendi/Universal), WCW Mayhem (GBC – Electronic Arts), Cassi: Earth Girl On Campus (PC – Shockwave 3D/Intel), Scattergories (PC – Hasbro), Outburst (PC – Hasbro), Howard Marks Video Casino Games (PC – Hasbro), Lost In Space: Math Adventure (PC – Sound Source), Babe: Pig in the City (PC – Sound Source), An American Tail: Movie Book (PC – Sound Source), The King and I Activity Center (PC – Sound Source), The Casper Junior Activity Center (PC – Sound Source), Marvel Super Heroes: Amazing Math (PC – Brighter Child), Star Warped (PC – Parroty), The X-Fools (PC – Parroty), Microshaft (PC – Parroty), Madison’s Adventures Growing Up Wild: Mad About Cats! (PC – Brighter Child), The Muppets: Beginning To Read (PC – Brighter Child), The Muppets: Reading and Phonics (PC – Brighter Child), Pirate Jupiter and the Moondogs (PC – Vtech), Beethoven’s 2nd (Sega Genesis – Hi-Tech Expressions), Mickey’s Ultimate Challenge (Super NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Game Gear and Master System – Hi-Tech Expressions)

Eye Q Productions, Agoura Hills, CA

2003-2014

Artist & Animator (Freelance)

Halloween Screams (Disneyland Anaheim’s fireworks “spook-tacular”), Twice Charmed: An Original Twist on the Cinderella Story (Broadway-style live show aboard Disney Cruise Line), Paradis: Flapper’s Delight (Broadway-style live show aboard Norwegian Cruise Line), The Golden Mickey Awards (Broadway-style live show aboard Disney Cruise Line), Celebrate the Journey (Interactive show for kids aboard Disney Cruise Line)

  • Created 2D & 3D digital art and animation for several projection-mapped venues featured at Disneyland Anaheim and on various Disney Cruise Line ships

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