Experience

• Senior Lighting TD at Industrial Light & Magic

  September 2022 - Present

  Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset (2025)

  - Utilized Unreal Engine’s baked lighting system to optimize performance across VR and AR experiences while achieving the visual target of a Star Wars game.
  
  - Collaborated with lookdev, environment, and tech art teams to achieve the iconic Star Wars visual style while adhering to perf requirements.
  
  - Lit immersive VR environments and AR racing tracks to ensure visual consistency across platforms
  
  - Created skyboxes to support the atmosphere and storytelling in VR levels.

  What If...? An Immersive Story | Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Innovation In Emerging Media Programming Emmy (2024)

  - Lighting Lead on What If...? An Immersive Story.
  
  - Utilized Unreal Engine’s path traced lighting, shader lighting, and a projection system to bring the show's iconic painted backgrounds and cel shaded characters to life.
  
  - Collaborated closely with lookdev, engineering, and tech art teams to develop and refine shader-based cel-shaded lighting for characters.
  
  - Partnered with the environment team to achieve an environment lighting target that worked well with the projection-and-painting process it would undergo.
  
  - Worked with tech art to integrate lighting elements that responded dynamically to VFX.
  
  - Utilized Unreal Engine's Sequencer to animate and optimize character lighting for narrative moments and gameplay.

  Unannounced Project

  - Co-lead on unannounced project.
  
  - Authored global and local lighting and post-processing volumes.
  
  - Lit a variety of interior and exterior spaces with a focus on visual storytelling, gameplay clarity, and performance requirements.
  
  - Worked with tech art, vfx, environment, and other departments to meet perf requirements while hitting visual targets.

• Lead Lighting Artist at Aspyr

  January 2022 - September 2022

  - Led the lighting team on a ground-up AAA remake.
  
  - Created physically accurate sun, sky, and atmospheric lighting setups to achieve realistic lighting.
  
  - Lit interiors and exteriors using Unreal Engine’s Lumen system, balancing visual fidelity, gameplay readability, and performance.
  
  - Coordinated with production, environment, FX, design, and cinematic teams to ensure lighting met cross-discipline goals, on schedule and at quality.

• Senior Lighting Artist at High Moon Studios

  Carlsbad

  September 2018 - December 2021

  Call of Duty: Warzone

  - Led a team of lighters, managing task assignments and bug tracking.
  
  - Collaborated with lighting teams across multiple Activision studios to ensure we were achieving cohesive visual targets.
  
  - Worked closely with production and environment teams to maintain deadlines.
  
  - Authored reflection volumes and post process volumes for interior lighting.
  
  - Lit interiors with a focus on visual fidelity, gameplay, and performance requirements.
  
  - Lit and optimized front end lobby scenes, coordinating with environment and fx teams.
  
  - Led lighting team on the Nakatomi Plaza Warzone update, ensuring we matched the visual target of the film while lighting for gameplay needs.

  Black Ops 5: Cold War (Level: Echoes of a Cold War)
  
  Black Ops 4: Zombies (Levels: Alpha Omega & Tag der Toten)

  - Tuned sun, sky, and atmosphere settings for exterior levels.
  
  - Authored reflection and post process volumes to achieve visual fidelity in both exteriors and interiors.
  
  - Lit exterior and interior levels with a focus on gameplay, player progression, and story telling.
  
  - Worked with tech art, fx, and environment teams to achieve both visual and performance targets.

• Lighting Artist at Electronic Arts

  Orlando

  January 2017 - August 2017

  Longshot: Madden NFL 18 (Cinematic Lighting Artist)
  
  - Translated concept art into cinematic scenes, created mood, visual depth, and interest for cinematic camera composition in the Frostbite engine.
  
  - ​Lit cinematic environments and character lighting, focusing on visual delivery and performance optimization.
  
  - Worked with environment artists to ensure adherence to PBR standards.
  
  ​- Performed optimization passes on all lighting scenes to ensure they are in performance.

  Madden NFL 18 (Environment Artist)
  
  - Created swarm systems in Houdini, and trained coworkers on workflows.
  
  - Created environment assets and PBR textures in Maya, Photoshop, and Substance Designer.
  
  - Brought existing assets up to PBR standards through texture and mesh modifications.

  Rory McIlroy PGA Tour (Environment Artist)
  
  - Modeled environment assets in Maya, pipelining them through Houdini and into Frostbite.
  
  - Used aerial and ground-level references to recreate PGA courses in Frostbite.

• Artist at TROBO

  Orlando, United States of America

  February 2015 - October 2015

  - Led​ ​an​ ​art​ ​team​ ​through​ ​a​ ​project,​ ​from​ ​concept​ ​to​ ​completion.
  
  - Designed​ ​UI​ ​layout​ ​and​ ​wrote​ ​style​ ​documentation​ ​for​ ​other​ ​artists’​ ​use.
  
  - Concepted​ ​and​ ​illustrated​ ​storyboards,​ ​environment​ ​assets,​ ​and​ ​props.
  
  - Created​ ​spritesheets​ ​and​ ​implemented​ ​them​ ​into​ ​the​ ​game​ ​using​ ​XML.

• QA Artist at Wardrum Studios

  Gainesville, United States of America

  August 2013 - May 2015

  Turtle Tumble:
  
  - Modeled,​ ​rigged,​ ​and​ ​animated​ ​characters,​ ​accessories,​ ​and​ ​environment​ ​assets​ ​in​ ​Maya.
  
  - Created​ ​level​ ​assets​ ​in​ ​Maya​ ​and​ ​implemented​ ​into​ ​game​ ​engine.

  Grand Theft​ Auto:​ San Andreas (mobile release):
  
  - Updated​ ​existing​ ​textures,​ ​created​ ​new​ ​textures,​ ​identified​ ​and​ ​fixed​ ​visual​ ​issues.

• Animator at n-Space

  Orlando, United States of America

  February 2013 - May 2013

  - Rigged two dimensional characters in 3DS Max.
  
  - Animated multiple characters with idle, fight, and other animations.
  
  - Imported animations into Unity.

• Artist at ZeeGee Games

  Orlando, United States of America

  April 2012 - November 2012

  - Illustrated environment assets and characters.
  
  - Worked on animation spritesheets for 2d assets.
  
  - Created UI icons and menus.

• Artist at Row Sham Bow

  Orlando, United States of America

  September 2011 - March 2012

  - Created concept art for characters, environments, and weapons.
  
  - Illustrated UI icons and menus.
  
  - Modeled 3D environment assets and characters.
  
  - Animated weapons and characters.