Experience

• Graphics Technical Artist at Halo Studios

  Remond, US

  November 2025 - Present

  •Owned planetary rendering and authoring workflows, developing planet and halo ring atmosphere ray marchers, skyboxes, and Blueprint-driven lighting tools.

  •Built C++/Slate material tools for Unreal Engine 5, combining browsing, lighting previews, permutation and Nanite diagnostics, Data Validation, and headless audits.

  •Optimized shield FX, post-process shaders, texture usage, and character/weapon Blueprint logic, simplifying algorithms to improve runtime performance while preserving visual quality.

  •Embedded with VFX during final production to resolve content bugs and CPU/GPU issues across first-person, third-person, split-screen, and networked gameplay.

  •Authored cross-team material standards and artist training resources; helped define outsourced-content guidelines and refined artist-facing tools through feedback.

  •Guided lighting artists in adopting AI-assisted workflows and partnered with Tech Art to evaluate secure, scalable integration strategies.

• Senior Technical Artist at Star Atlas

  remote, US

  February 2025 - Present

  •Owned material-pipeline and shader development for weapons, environments, and ships across four Star Atlas projects.

  •Led a small team of technical artists in content creation and performance analysis; drove technical art direction to balance visual quality and runtime performance.

  •Built Unreal Editor Utility Widget (EUW) tools to support artist-facing content creation and material workflows.

• Technical Artist II at Ubisoft

  Sanfransico

  June 2022 - February 2025

  •Developed and optimized character, weapon, and cosmetic shaders for a shipped AAA multiplayer title, balancing visual quality with rendering performance.
  
  •Standardized material and shader-authoring pipelines across departments; authored shader, performance, and onboarding documentation to support consistent implementation.
  
  •Led team-wide performance profiling and optimization efforts to identify rendering bottlenecks and improve development efficiency.

• Technical Artist at NEXT/NOW

  Tech Artist

  March 2021 - June 2022

  As a tech artist I'm responsible for game asset implementation, shader development using in engine tools, VFX, rigging, and animation.

• 3D Generalist at NEXT/NOW

  Chicago, United States of America

  July 2019 - June 2022

  I'm responsible for modeling, optimizing, texturing, implementing, and lighting assets into engine for product delivery. Assets range from props, environments, to animations, textures, etc.

• 3D Generalist at Freelance

  Chicago, US

  January 2013 - July 2019

  Created full-pipeline assets for indie studios and brands, from concept through final render, specializing in stylized and low-poly work.