Experience

• Lead Lighting Artist at Hardsuit Labs

  Seattle, United States of America

  September 2018 - Present

  Mentor and train lighting artists.
  
  Establish lighting design consistent with project art direction and game goals.
  
  Develop systems to make lighting design easier and faster.
  
  Establish best working practices for lighters.
  
  Manage tasking and scheduling for lighters.
  
  Produce and refine lighting designs for game levels.
  
  Develop real-time lighting optimization strategies and techniques.
  
  Work across all departments to make sure lighting is supporting them and is supported by them.

• Senior Lighting Artist at Amazon

  Seattle, United States of America

  August 2015 - August 2018

  Lighting foundation for AAA PC games
  
  Cinematic event scripting
  
  Game and cinematic lighting production
  
  Engine QA, lighting/cine feature design

• Lighting Artist (contract) at Crystal Dynamics

  Redwood City, United States of America

  November 2014 - May 2015

  Cinematic lighting for Rise of the Tomb Raider.

• Lighting Artist (contract) at Bungie

  Bellevue, United States of America

  May 2013 - March 2014

  Created environment lighting for Destiny, focusing on PvP arenas.
  
  Participated in daily play tests and leveraged feedback to refine PvP lighting design.
  
  Helped design environment lighting process and provided feedback on lighting tools.

• Environment Artist at Hidden Path Entertainment

  Bellevue, United States of America

  November 2010 - April 2013

  Environment lighting, tone mapping and color correction.
  
  Modeled architecture, assisted with level design, managed asset creation.

• 3D World Builder (contract) at FXVille

  Seattle, United States of America

  February 2010 - October 2010

  Ported Call of Duty: Black Ops Xbox 360 environments and lighting to Nintendo Wii.
  
  Developed process for translating HDR lighting values into LDR lighting.
  
  Spearheaded engine/tools documentation, creating a highly used wiki.

• Lighting Artist (contract) at Microsoft

  Redmond, United States of America

  September 2008 - September 2009

  Environment lighting for Forza Motorsport 3, creating daylight and tunnel rigs.
  
  Managed render farm, computing tens of thousands of lightmaps per environment.
  
  Painted custom IBL images and created lighting composites for each environment.
  
  Documented lighting pipeline, assisted with lighting tools design.