About me:

Computer & Design Skills

Software/Technical Knowledge:

  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • HTML/CSS - emphasis on standards compliance, SEO and accessibility
  • Hammer level editor
  • Maya (basic modeling, and animation and UV mapping)
  • 3DS Max (basic modeling, scripting and rigging)
  • Softimage XSI (basic modeling and UV mapping)
  • Microsoft Office
  • Dreamweaver

Art/Design & Miscellaneous Skills:

  • Extensive background in the traditional arts, especially in drawing
  • Print design experience, including magazine ads and articles
  • Strong writing skills, with professional experience writing help documentation and marketing text
  • Comprehensive experience dealing with phoneme to viseme mapping (syllable to mouth position)
  • Proficient knowledge in web design/usability

Experience

January 2005 - May 2008

Annosoft, LLC.

www.annosoft.com
Richardson, TX

Technical Artist

  • Website design and development
  • Company image & logo design
  • Artwork creation for print ads and program artwork
  • Writing of help documentation
  • QA/testing (Analysis, reproduction and documentation of bugs, verification of bug resolution)
  • Phoneme to viseme mapping, matching foreign languages with the appropriate phoneme and viseme representation
Summer 2006 & on

Dystopia - a total conversion for half-life2

www.dystopia-game.com

Level Designer & Artist

  • Level design and development
  • 2D art (textures, in-game icons and advertisements, &c) and 3D models
  • Playtesting, making use of the Mantis bug-tracking system as a tester and as a developer

Website Design

Education

Currently enrolled

Austin Community College

Rio Grande Campus

Winter 2004 - Spring/Summer 2005

The Art Institute of Dallas

major in Graphic Design

Fall 2004 - Fall 2007

Dallas County Community Colleges

North Lake College