Your One Stop Shop For All Things Creative

Summary
Passionate and creative, with a strong artistic background. Diverse experiences have made me a leader with a patient and compassionate nature. Striving to motivate, inspire and encourage others by offering quality feedback and assistance to teammates. Good communication with supervisors, project managers and co-workers. Described by employers as “dependable, mature, excellent worker, with strong attention to detail”. A storyteller who can carry a project from beginning to end, but can also play a support role, able to spread talents and skills to fill gaps as needed. Over 15 years of proven work experience, from early stages of concept development to final product.

Professional History

2016 – Current Position: Owner/Creative Director, Art Director, Digital Artist and Animator
Carlson Animation, Tampa, FL
Concept Development, Art Director, Storyboarding, Modeling, Rigging, Animating, Rendering, Compositing and Video Editing

2014 – 2016: Digital Artist
Grace Family Church, Tampa, FL
Concept Development, Art Director, Storyboarding, Modeling, Rigging, Animating, Rendering, Compositing and Video Editing

2007 – 2014: Digital Artist
Daktronics Creative Services, Tampa, FL
Concept Development, Art Director, Storyboarding, Modeling, Rigging, Animating, Rendering, Compositing and Video Editing 

• Client List:
  Tampa Bay Rays, University of Alabama, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Orlando Magic, Kansas City Royals, University of Florida, University of South Florida, University of Georgia, University of Richmond, James Madison University, Georgia Tech University, Clemson University, Iowa State University, Wake Forest University, Toyota, and many others.

2005 – 2007: Digital Artist
Create Studios, Richmond, VA
3D animation, Motion Graphics, Video Editing, DVD Authoring, Concept Development, and Storyboarding

Technical Skills
Pre-Production: Concept Development, Art Direction, Storyboarding, Style Frame, Art Boards, Animatic Development and Traditional drawing skills.

Maya: 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, animating, rendering.

Mudbox: 3D modeling and digital sculpture

Motionbuilder: Character Setup, Animating and cleaning up motion capture data.

Photoshop: Image creation and manipulation.

After Effects: Compositing

Premiere: Video Editing

Education
B.A. Computer Animation, University of Central Florida, 2003