Education
William Peace University, Raleigh, NC
Bachelor of Arts, May 2015 - Simulation Game Design Major, Communications Minor

Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

Master of Arts, Pending - Animation and Visual Effects, 3D Focus

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Skills:  Organized, Quick learner, Collaborative work style, Capable of independent deadlines, Driven by creativity.

Summary:  My experiences have branched across game design, game art, and much of the pipeline for both creating and shipping games.  Customer and client-based service is also a branch I’ve enriched while in the games industry, restaurant industry, and through working on multiple volunteer initiatives.  Ready to combine a love of communications, with a genuine enthusiasm for technology disciplines.

 

CRM & Project Management Toolbox

Asana | CMS | Salesforce | Google suites | JIRA | Knowledge Base | Microsoft Office | Slack | Social Media Sites | Submission Portal | Wiki (creation, structuring, and upkeep).
 

Design and Development Toolbox
Adobe Suite (After Effects, Audition, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere, Substance Designer, Substance Painter) | Autodesk Products (3DS Max, Maya, Mudbox) | Game Engines (Game Maker, Unity, Unreal Engine) | Apple Software Programs (Final Cut, iMovie, Procreate) | Additional Creative, Scripting, and Dev Tools (Audacity, Blender, Clip Studio, GitHub, Garageband, Opti-Track Motive:Body, SourceTree, Toon Boom, Visual Basic, Zbrush).

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Honors

Fall 2018 – William Peace University's Career Connections Speaker – Internship Panel - Fusioncore Interactive

Fall 2015 – William Peace University's Career Connections Speaker – Game Design Career Panel - Prologue Games

Fall 2016 – GDEX: Cleveland Institute of Art Megabooth Runner Up (Fate's Echo - Best Game Category)

Fall 2011 – 2015 Peace Singers (Glee club) – Stewardship Chair (2012) Manager (Fall 2013 – Spring 2015)

Spring 2013 Semester, Spring 2014 Semester, Fall 2014 Semester - Deans List
Fall 2013 Semester, Spring 2015 Semester - Dean’s Scholar

Featured Work

Student Showcase 2015 – Internship Showcase (SGD Internship), Prism Design Proposal (AdvancedGraphic Design Studio)

Student Showcase 2014 – Design Portfolio (Imaging class), Band Poster (Design & Type I),

Collaborative Prism Proposal (Design & Type II), Final Collaborative Version of the Prism Literary Book (Design & Type II)

Student Showcase 2013 – “Ghost Ship” (traditional painting inspired by George Grie’s digital
painting of the same name); Face painting for the Anthropology booth (Fall Fest 2013)

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Work Experience

2019 - Present, Epic Games (Full-time Contract to Full-time Employee)

Service Delivery Manager:

On-boarding of developers and publishers, assets management, build store pages, product configuration, setting up or requesting permissions for external developers, preparing and executing launches with crosses into release management, page and configuration qa and test cycles;  

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2019 - 2020, Wake Technical Community College (Contract)

Adjunct Instructor:

Teach and demonstrate techniques in Unreal Engine, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Photoshop; Guide students through course material;  Guide lab time; Grade and review work;   

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2016 - 2020, Fusioncore Interactive (Team Start-Up) as well as Freelance + Independent Work
3D modeler, Environment Artist & World Design:

Design and develop 3D objects to fill the game world, bring 2D concepts to life in 3D programs, texture models and make additional models to fit textures designed by the primary visual artist.  Also import models, textures, and materials into the project file making them available for the level designer.  

Project Planning:

Project planning (setting milestones and estimates, performing integration tests, re-estimating time blocks for tasks, etc)

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2015 – 2016, Prologue Games
Level Designer/Content Integrator (Full-time Contract):
Put content through the pipeline: Populate scenes with 3D models, convert dialogue files for game,
place characters in scene, set up scene navigation for characters. Add basic lights, light transitions,
set piece movements, and camera slides. Add music, stinger, and sfx to scenes with in-game trigger
volumes or dialogue scripts. Set up pacing of some in-game occurrences, respond to game “bugs”
reported internally and externally, tested all edits.
 

2015 – 2015, iFreestore - Duke Medicine (Contract)

Spring 2015 Semester Intern:
Help plan and research, assist in motion capture actor suit up, set title of animation clip and record in
motive:body, convert/export animation, match up video clips to the mocap animations, repair
animations using fcurve in motion builder, and practice correct file management.

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2014 – 2018, The Pit, Empire Eats
Hostess, Server, Admin:
Designate seating for customers, keeping track using the open table application. Responsibilities
include seating, greeting, organizing, cleaning, taking reservations, taking messages, taking call-in
to-go orders, handling allergy tickets for orders, running food, future orders.

 

2008 – City Of Durham, Operation Breakthrough Durham, NC
Office Assistant:
Assisted six employees, purged outdated documents, filed confidential human resources documents,
memos and printed emails, typed memos, laminated various documents, organized desk space and
paperwork, made labels for file folders.

 

Volunteer Experience
2009 – 2013 Sharon Hackney-Johnson, Organizer Durham, NC
Team Member
Receive donations of clothing and non-perishable food, personal hygiene items.
Collect and manage cash donations of up to $100 per donations.
Managed shopping budget of up to $250 from cash donations.
Work in a team to organize the bags in preparation for shipment and delivery.
Distribute the items to homeless and deliver items to the Genesis house.
Served dinner to homeless on Thanksgiving.
Collaborate with organizations such as the Genesis House, Church at the Park, and the Urban
Ministries Homeless Shelter.
2012 Church at the Park Durham, NC
Art Activities Coordinator
Co-supervised 25-30 children in art activities
2013 – 2015 William Peace University Raleigh, NC
Student Volunteer
STOP Hunger Now packaging events (2013, 2014, 2015) & Raleigh Vineyard Pantry (2014)
Appalachia Service Project (2014)
 

Activities
Anthropology Club 2012 - 2015
Defying Gravity Fall 2013
Gaming Club Spring 2014 – 2015
NC Theater Conservatory Show Guest Singer Spring and Fall of 2014, Spring and Fall of 2015
Peace EBook Club 2013 – 2014 Peace "Swap" Step Team Fall 2011
Peace Singers (Glee club) 2011 – 2015 Stewardship Chair (2012) Manager (Fall 2013 – Spring 2015)
BA Musical Theatre Showcase participant, Fall 2011 – Fall 2013 & Spring 2015
Student Showcase Lunch Variety Show Participant (vocals, guitar, mandolin) Spring 2014
“Vocal Masterpeace” Member & Secretary Fall 2013 - 2015
Annual “V-day” monologue cast member: Spotlight Monologue One, 2014. My Village, 2015  

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Courses for Animation and Visual Effects:  Figurative Concepts, 3D Modeling & Animation 1 (Maya), Storyboarding, 3D Character Animation 1, Drawing and Design for Animation, Introduction to Rigging, 3D Character Animation 2

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Courses Taken for Simulation Game Design and Communications: Graphic Design SGD Senior Project, 3D Modeling, Motion for the Screen, Advanced Graphic Design Studio, Art Appreciation, Internship, Game Tech I, Game Tech II, Storytelling for Simulation, Intro to SGD,S&GD, Senior Collaborative for SGD, Programming with C++, Finite Math, Design and Typography I & II, Multimedia Editing, Painting I, Drawing I, Digital Media Convergence, Media and Culture,Public Speaking, Intro to Public Relations, Media Literacy, Media Writing and Peace Times,Directed Study Communications Research.