CV/Resumé

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Objectives

To find a new career path wherein I may contribute my creativity, sociability, and technical skills to the productivity and success of a business while actively growing as an artist and a person.

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah – May 2009 | B.F.A. Interactive Design and Game Development

• Dean’s list

• Student Project: Aerostat – An Unreal mod with a WWII era theme and a platform/FPS mechanic. Served as one of the “senior environment artists”.

• Student Project: Project Momentum – An Unreal racing mod with an ancient Thailand aesthetic. In charge of the majority of the textures for the project as well as a hefty percentage of the art assets.

• Pro-bono Work: For SaberDance Studios headed by Sheri Graner Ray. Included game development as well as art development.

• Invited back in 2011 to speak on a panel about working in the game development industry to future graduates.

Experience

September 2010 – July 2011 | Content Coordinator

Menue Americas Corporation | Norcross, GA

Responsibilities here were highly varied:

-Office work including lunches, errands, phone calls, meetings, erroneous office housekeeping

-PR work including handling all music contracts for Zombie Mosh, networking on behalf of the company and organizing events

-Creative/Development work including advertisement design, virtual market/economy management, and asset creation for Roman Taxi I & II

-Menue.com website creation & maintenance

April 2010 – June 2010 | Retail Associate/Self Manager

Cinnamon Bear Country Store | Savannah, GA

Responsibilities included sales, inventory, store maintenance, nightly paperwork and ordering

November 2006 – July 2007 | Retail Associate – Holiday & Summer

New York & Company | Pineville, NC

Responsibilities included sales, store maintenance, floor set changes and money handling

July 2005 – September 2005 | Ride Associate – Skyflyer

Carowinds Amusement Park | Ft. Mill, SC/Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities included running all positions on the ride, guest safety and enjoyment, trash, and supplemental ride support on Rapids and Screamweaver

Skills

• Highly developed networking skills; extremely personable and always willing to find an amenable way to ensure the customer/guest/client satisfaction as well as business satisfaction; able to up-sell without being overbearing

• Motivated and dedicated to working, no matter what the job – every task is given the attention to detail it deserves

• Often times referred to as a “sponge” in reference to an extreme thirst for learning anything and everything; always looking for the next challenge, skill to master or neat trick to learn

• Full fine art foundation from education at SCAD as well as full technical background for video game asset creation; specialized in environment art and texturing [ high and low poly modeling, UV layout, photo and hand painted texture creation, full understanding of texture map flow/creation, lighting, set dressing ]

• Software proficiencies: Maya, Adobe Creative Suite [Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc.], Microsoft Office Suite, CrazyBump

• Able to seamlessly work in all three OS platforms: MAC, PC, and Linux

• Creative but grounded and business savvy; ready and willing to jump into whatever the next project is head first, without trepidation

• Easy going and reliable