About Me

My dad bought his first computer when I was a kid. I was fascinated by it, and also angry: I saw no good reason why I should be limited to using only eight colors on what looked like an actual television. I knew better could be done. I also knew that if anyone could find a way to make it do what it wasn’t meant to do, that person would be me.

Needless to say I was unable to improve early VGA graphics. But my standard for quality was set. From that point on, if anything could be pushed from “good enough” to perfection, I was the one to get it there.

I’m often asked which I like better: art or programming? There was a time when I was happiest balancing the two. But as I grow in my career I find more satisfaction on the creative side, and I’m happiest pushing my tools to their limits for the highest possible visual quality using whatever means are available to me.

Highlights

• Lighting Technical Artist at Meta (Look Development, Avatars)

• Lighting Supervisor for Baobab Studios’ “Baba Yaga” (2D short based on VR experience)

• Lighter for Baobab Studios’ “Crow: The Legend” in both VR and 2D

• Production Lighter on multiple CG animated features for PDI/DreamWorks Animation

• Lighter for “Pearl,” the first VR animated short nominated for an Academy Award (Google)

• MS in Visualization Sciences, Texas A&M University (Graduate Merit Fellowship)

Specialties

• An eye for color, composition and detail

• Achieving a look quickly

• Giving and understanding art direction

• Innovative visual and technical problem solving

• Artistic workflow development

• Interactive development

• Technical troubleshooting

• Tedious process automation

• Teaching and documentation

Interests

• Writing

• Painting

• Music

• Hiking

• Creating art with code

• Exploiting relationships between color and sound

• Eating tacos