Career

Guided portfolio strategy, reviewed milestone gates, playtested key builds, and aligned publishing scope with Riot's IP ambitions. Partnered with external studios including Double Stallion, Airship Syndicate, and Tequila Works. Provided hands-on guidance to the Forge Leadership team involving production roadmapping, development strategy, IP usage, and player experience across creative, technical, and design implementation.

Established art pipeline standards, scheduling methodology, and cross-project resource allocation. Integrated performance capture pipelines and art outsourcing pipelines into the studio's production practices in pursuit of modernizing approaches to development.

Built tracking and reporting infrastructure for art production status. Supervised over 60 direct reports, including career improvement, annual reviews, and regular day-to-day support.

Provided additional production support on God of War: Ascension, internal R&D projects, and technology development for next-gen hardware ahead of the God of War franchise reinvention.

Overhauled production process from the ground up, built entirely on agile methodologies, including sprint planning, milestone gating, and risk tracking. Rebuilt studio talent from 8 to 60+ developers, while innovating on studio's usage of external partnerships and non-labor alternatives to optimize development.

Integrated performance capture, scanning, and procedurally generated technologies. Drove key software and middleware evaluations including Unreal Engine adoption. Managed relationships with key technology and publishing partners.

Accountable for project P&L across all OPEX, from key talent to vendor management. Guided development on an unannounced action RPG title.

Led development direction on an unannounced action RPG project for Square Enix. Oversaw production planning, milestone structure, and cross-studio collaboration.

Overhauled production process from the ground up, built entirely on agile methodologies, including sprint planning, milestone gating, and risk tracking. Built team from 8 to 60+ developers, while innovating on studio's usage of external partnerships and non-labor alternatives to optimize development.

Integrated performance capture, scanning, and procedurally generated technologies. Drove key software and middleware evaluations including Unreal Engine adoption.

Accountable for project P&L across all OPEX, from key talent to vendor management.

Led full development of Lost Planet 3 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) overseeing 110 developers; delivered all Capcom publisher milestones on time and within budget.

Primary Capcom contact for milestone review, scope negotiation, and creative approvals. Instituted scaled agile frameworks, oversaw development budget and resourcing strategies. Partnered with game director on all key product decisions.

Directly managed 8-person production team in driving organizational design and delivery strategy.

Oversaw all production requirements of the development team and in relationship with Capcom Japan, U.S., and Europe; navigated cross-cultural workflows, approvals, and quality expectations throughout the title's lifecycle.

Represented the project publicly at SIGGRAPH 2012 and New York Comic-Con 2012.

Released August 2013 on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

Oversaw SMS art operations during final months and ship for God of War: Ascension. Managed artists and animators across all creative and technical art disciplines. Established art pipeline standards and scheduling methodology that carried forward into the God of War franchise reinvention.

Provided tactical support for PS3 certification requirements across all major regions.

Released March 2013 on PS3.

Responsible for building the animation team and pipeline, leading key frame driven in-game and cinematic production, and delivering character and creature animation through gold. Provided animation direction reviews, best practices, and support for the animators. Supervised biomechanical requirements and implementation of all characters from concept, character production, rigging and final animation.

Provided support in instituting first agile conversion at Spark, by leading scrum-based strike teams across key interdisciplinary efforts, primarily focused on AI driven creature development and FPS mechanics.

Served as Lead Animator at Spark Unlimited on Call of Duty: Finest Hour (PS2, Xbox, GameCube). Responsible for soldier and character animation, rigging standards, and building the animation workflow that would carry forward into subsequent Spark titles.

Built an iconic feeling of Call of Duty as a world of citizen soldiers and not singular heroes through animation direction and execution.

Animator and Lead Animator at EA (DreamWorks Interactive). Featured in Official PlayStation Magazine and GamePro. Nominated for “Console First Person Action Game of the Year.”

Foundational AAA production experience: craft-level execution at a major publisher on a top franchise.

Industry-leading real-time AR virtual idol performances. Built partnerships across three continents involving Riot Games, Cubic Motion, The Future Group, Epic Games, and Tencent for the LPL broadcast. Designed and oversaw product from inception to final delivery, including building the technical pipeline, creative direction, real-time rendering, and on-site delivery in China alongside a highly collaborative team from within Riot and across key partnerships.

Three creative beats across three separate teams: a K/DA champion-infused countdown, a live K/DA AR music performance involving real singers and their virtual counterparts, and a pre-rendered CG generated sequence involving Ahri chasing the Summoner's Cup trophy.

Supported resourcing and talent required for the K/DA transformation of the countdown clock. Spearheaded the asset creation and high-fidelity character models for the AR K/DA performances. Production planning, vendor assessments, craft supervision and feedback for performance capture sessions at Digital Domain for the dance performance beats. Led internal development of Ahri asset and partnered with CDev CG team to produce the Nostalgia beat of Ahri chasing the Summoner's Cup.

Coordinated across Riot esports, music, creative, and broadcast teams for a cohesive multi-act ceremony.

First-person immersive perspective of League of Legends champion Zyra. Developed UE4 VR pipeline, on-site hardware spec, and delivery to kiosk infrastructure. Multi-city simultaneous deployment across the China consumer tour.

Early career CG film animation role. Contributed across all aspects of CG pipeline, from modeling, texturing, layout, animation, lighting and compositing on original independently developed CG animated feature film Aerotroopers. Built by a team of less than 20 artists, it competed during a time of highly-gated proprietary CG development from Pixar and PDI. Served as a foundation in visual craft that directly informed subsequent cinematic and real-time game development work and critical knowledge across the entire CG animated pipeline.

CG artist and VFX contributor on multiple primetime series including Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Power Rangers, and Boy Meets World. Early adoption of Maya as a 3D Generalist to drive CG integrations with live action plates. Worked within a professional post-production pipeline during the early era of digital VFX in television.

On-air graphics and motion design across three major cable networks. Contributed to broadcast identity, Chyron operation and graphics, and network packaging during the formative years of cable television design. Foundation in real-time production craft that informed later work in games and live events.