Objective

Working in a team environment has honed my interpersonal skills for negotiating under intense situations. 
I bring the experience of delegating responsibilities according to the teams’ strengths and weaknesses, while maintaining a strong work ethic from the beginning to the end of a project. Coming from an Art and Performance background, I've taken up multiple mantles throughout my academic and professional career. My background in both Fine Arts and Performance have helped me to take the initiative, visualize the end goal, and produce results in a variety of creative ways. As a student of the ETC, I bring focus to both short and long term deadlines, while organizing and coordinating the efforts of other professionals in their field..

• As a 2d concept and visual design artist, one of my duties involves envisioning the look and design of the end product.
  
  
• As a producer, its important to learn how to budget time and resources accordingly. The 15 week long projects and short scrum cycles are advantageous to me as an artist, and as a producer. They teach someone to work quickly and efficiently to make a quality end product. As a student producer and artist at the ETC,

Current

Producer/Artist - ETC of Carnegie Mellon University

Inspiring Path

• in collaboration with NEC (Nippon Electric Company)
  Art Lead, Art department and Producer for Location Based Experience for NEC's Inspiring Path. Osaka, Japan.
  
  
• Exploring Creative potential, based on hardware specifications to provide an Experience within NEC's "Inspirational Path" hallway. This experience should be one that provides their researchers with a sense of community, and fun, and it should unify the collective creativity of NEC's Computing and Communication Information Research Labs, using a 4 projector touch screen set up and Pipeline speakers located within the hall.
  
  
• Combine the brainstorming functionality of a Mindmap with fun and exciting gameplay to create a work-related tool for NEC researchers. The result, was a visual metaphor of creation and city construction found in Turn-based Strategy games as a skin for the Community Generated Content and functionality of the mind map.
  
  
• Manage a group of 4 individuals during the 15 week long process, while remaining sensitive to Japanese business culture, schedule conflicts and changing technology. Everyone on the team was well balanced. Our programmers were wonderful, and we were able to coordinate our workflow to get the project going.
  
  
• All art assets, UI (visual) design and implementation,
  
  
• Developing a style unique for our Japanese Audience in terms of visual style and aesthetics, combining the old and new.
  
  
• 3 final Powerpoint presentations for the faculty at the ETC, NEC, and one for Government officials at our offices in Osaka, Japan.
  
  

Omega Project

• Lead a group of students of diverse backgrounds to tackle new technologies in collaboration with Lockheed Martin
  
  
• Primary researcher and Development of new technologies, design implementation and execution for a proof of concept.
  
  
• My duty was to supervise the end product, build the prototype, identify and solve problems as they arise for every step of the 15 week intensive project.

Building Virtual Worlds 2003

• Hello World (Art and Voice), show piece
• 3d Textures, and Character voice
  
  
• Finding Nemo Jellyfish fields (Art Lead)


On Air Radio Personality – Narrator – Split Infinity Radio

• 3 years experience producing and performing
  
  
• Voice acting for commercials
  
  
• Development of Game and Media related content for shows on Split Infinity Radio

Skills

Adobe CS3   Texture Artist Autodesk: 3ds Max + Maya (texture)

Sony Sound forge SAM Broadcaster Dreamweaver  HTML MS Office Suite

Work History

Game Advisor On-Air Personality Consumer Affairs Specialist

GameStop, West Mifflin, PA Split Infinity Radio, Greece Phillip Morris USA PRC, West Mifflin, PA

08.07-12.08 03.05-09.08 01.04 – 01.06

Education

MET  Producer/Artist BFA  Painting, Drawing and Photography

Carnegie Mellon University  Pittsburgh, PA  University of Michigan   Ann Arbor, MI

December, 2009  May 2002