OBJECTIVE

To use my design, modeling and animation skills to excel as a digital artist.

EXPERIENCE

Digital multimedia tutor | Harold Washington College, Chicago | October 2011 – present

• Coach beginning to advanced digital multimedia art students.
• Help instructors teach fundamental art concepts and various graphic art software programs.
• Monitor overall Digital Multimedia Lab functions.
• Provide general IT support as needed.

Freelance 3D artist and graphic designer | Various private clients | August 2010 – present

• Created 3D characters and environmental objects for a mobile application expected to launch in early 2012. Responsible for creating, animating, rigging and weighting models, plus UV mapping and pipeline exportation.
• Edited Flash/HTML templates for linked sites fulltimelogistics.com and fulltimetransport.com, adding elements such as live chat and .php contact page.
• As a pro bono project, created affordablerecovery.org for charity group dedicated to assisting men with substance abuse issues.
• Revamped social networking site 2hearts2match.com, using template style to give site more welcoming feel and Dolphin 7 to arrange .php.
• Created various logos and menu templates for private clients.
• Sketch work has been published in popular comic book.

Quality Assurance Analyst | Vicarious Visions, Albany, NY | April – July 2010

• Tested Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock for the Nintendo Wii.
• Wrote reports describing all “bugs” found during testing phase of the game’s development.

Animation team leader, 3D artist | Columbia College Chicago | September 2008 – May 2009

• Led the six-person animation team for Dismantle Repair, the 3D video game produced by the first graduating class of Columbia’s game design program.
• Supervised the team’s work by setting milestones to ensure compliance with deadlines, offering feedback for improvement and providing instruction when necessary.
• Created and animated 3D models of playable characters using in-house motion capture.
• Created environmental objects.

Digital multimedia tutor | Harold Washington College | January 2005 – April 2010

• Coach beginning to advanced digital multimedia art students.
• Help instructors teach fundamental art concepts and various graphic art software programs.
• Monitor overall Digital Multimedia Lab functions.
• Provide general IT support as needed.

PROFICIENCIES

• Adept in Maya, including character modeling, rigging and animation; Photoshop; Illustrator; and Flash.
• Experienced in 3D Studio Max and Softimage XSI.
• Skilled in traditional 2D, Flash-based and 3D animation.
• Equally comfortable in Windows- and Macintosh-based formats.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in game design with a minor in interactive multimedia, Columbia College Chicago
• Associate’s degree in arts, Harold Washington College
• Completed courses in XSI (Softimage), LightWave, Quark, Microsoft Word, Director, Dreamweaver, C++ and Visual Basic