Character Strengths

• Creative, yet focused, powered by artistic sense of creation through participation in conceptual art community, disciplined through mathematical/logical studies.
• Great attention to detail. Relied upon to complete several fields of work at once while maintaining artistic integrity and technical functionalities.
• Resourceful, demonstrated through working with the tightest of deadlines, completing a fully functional demo for venture capitalists in just six weeks.
• Excellent writing ability, clear and concise, with the ability to organize fine-tuned documentation into manageable modules.
• Experienced, in the fields of graphics theory, real-time implementations and user interface design.

Educational Background/Affiliations:

• Some courses completed – Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA. Completed classes: Light and Form, and Indroduction to Industrial Design.
• Currently Enrolled – San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. BS Computer Science with a Minor in Art. Current Overall GPA: 3.13.
• Alpha Kappa Psi - a professional business fraternity promoting the values of brotherhood, integrity, unity, knowledge, and service.

Work Experience:

• Software Engineer and Concept Artist
  • Signature Devices
  • Palo Alto, CA
  • Dates worked: 6/2003-Present
  • Helped to optimize, debug several applications, including a major game title, FarCryto be released Q2'04 by Ubisoft. Assisted in some artistic direction of content and created data conversion, manipulation utilities for 3dsMax and several other proprietary software. Also helped create several shader programs.
• Lead Coder and Software Engineer
  • Gamethoughts Publishing(Gamethoughts.com)
  • Rochester, NY
  • Dates worked: 8/2002-8/2003(contract work)
  • Contracted by publisher. Working on simple multiplayer title named Podwars as Lead Programmer. Programmed the majority of the game, at roughly 80,000 lines of code: 2D/3D engine, the game engine(optimized 2d collision detection and more), Artificial intelligence script system, the Faction AI(an AI whose main purpose is to generate AI scripts!), GUI interface design and programming, overall game structuring(including network intergration). Managed light team of artists and programmers.
• Game  GUI Designer and Artist
  • Blue Tea Game(BlueTeaGames.com)
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Dates worked: 9/2001-Present(contract work)
  • Created logos, designed the graphical user interface, created game art for three games: Save the Meeklits!, BallMaster, and HeliumMan. Save the Meeklits is the most recent project with Blue Tea Games.
• Graphic Designer
  • Live Wire Media(LiveWireMedia.com)
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Dates worked: 9/2000 – 3/2002
  • Graphic Artist for Educational Media Company, Live Wire Media. Created ads, logos, video labels. Minimal website work on GoodCharacter.com. Assisted in production details and management.
• Illustrator
  • Bamboozled.org
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Dates worked: 4/2000-5/2001
  • Graphic Artist for Non-Profit Community-funded Web-based Youth Magazine(www.bamboozled.org). Created website graphics and article artwork. Facilitated many team meetings. Part of the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Organization, San Francisco, CA.
• Intern Macromedia Flash programmer/Art Director
  • Salesforce.com Foundation
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Dates worked: 11/2000-5/2001
  • Part of the Salesforce.com foundation program called eLive. Art Director of foundation site. Used Flash to design and script gateway website leading to various beacon centers in San Francisco.

Non-Profit/Freelance Work Experience:

• Freelance Concept Artist – Created concept art for various games developments online that were never published. Please see portfolio website for examples of such work.
• Charcoal Portrait Artist – Worked freelance drawing charcoal portrait for various clients. Please see portfolio website for examples of such work.
• Freeware/Commercial Game Developer – Created a fully functional game for BobaFett.com. Currently in development stages for a commercial, updated version using new technology.

Skills:

• Graphic Imaging Software
  • Adobe Photoshop – Mastered. I am experienced and skilled with using all the tools for this program. Proficient with digital art tablets.
  • Adobe Illustrator – Expert. 3 years experience. Creative Logo design and Clip Art experience.
  • Quark Express – Proficient. 2 years experience. Commercial print production experience.
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver – Proficient. 2 years experience.
  • Macromedia Flash – Proficient/Expert. 1 year experience.
  • 3D Studio Max  – Intermediate.
  • Somewhat knowledgable in: Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Director.
• Illustration/Graphic Design
  • http://www.spaceartist.net - Online portfolio.
  • Mediums – Mastered in Pencil, Pen, Charcoal, Acrylic, Watercolor and Digital Tablet Art.
  • Creative, skillfully rendered concept designs.
  • Experience in Design. Can adjust designs accordingly with the limits set by information rich print-work to produce advertisements that stand out.
• Programming
  • Proficient in C/C++, Java, Windows platform development, Microsoft DirectX development,HLSL,CG, Artificial Intelligence structures, game network programming(Winsock), UML, Scheme/Lisp. Knowledgeable with software engineering concepts, user interface design, Lua scripting. Total 7 years experience.
• Foreign Languages
  • German – Knowledgeable. 3 years (Speech,Writing and Reading
  • Indonesian – Knowledgeable. (Speech, Reading)
• Misc
  • Proficient on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
  • Unix, Linux - < 1 year experience.