Role
Worked on various FX simulations, managed the pipeline and infrastructure on top of developing tools and workflows between artists and producers.
Warm & Fuzzy
- Technical Director | Remote | April 2024 – Present
- Freelance Houdini TD | Remote | March 2024 – April 2024
Jobs
- Coachella (2024)
- Crowd sim in rainbow tube
- Qualcomm (2024)
- Procedural icon creation
- C20 (2025)
- Water drops and condensation
- Hersheys One Bar (2025)
- Chocolate/Peanut butter liquid flow
- Azek (2025)
- Water drops, embers, and pellet sims
Tool Development
- Prism / Slack
- Prism / FrameIO
- Prism / Batch Publish
- Prism / Material Publish
Narrator Group
- Freelance Technical/VFX Artist | Remote | January 2024 – November 2024 (Recurring)
Role
Developed and implemented training scenarios in an immersive virtual/spatial environment
Maere Studios
- FX TD | Remote | June 2023 – September 2023
Role
Worked on simulations and developed tools to help manage Houdini caches for shots
Jobs
- Origin (2024)
- Vellum leaf simulations
Tool Development
- Houdini Cache Management
Lockheed Martin Space
- Lead 3D Generalist / FX TD | Highlands Ranch, CO | July 2021 – April 2023
- Contract 3D Generalist / FX TD | Highlands Ranch, CO | December 2019 – July 2021
Role
Worked on various FX simulations, asset development for satellites and the Orion capsule, pipeline, and helped producers manage complex 3D projects. I also lead the VFX/Animation team for Visual Communications department, and managed the hardware infrastructure for our team as a Linux Systems Admin.
Jobs
- Zumwalt (2023)
- The Line – Capabilities of Space (2022)
- Orion – Designed for Deep Space (2022)
- NGI – What Matters Most (2021)
- JADO (2020)
- May 4th – Orion Lightspeed (2020)
Salt Studios
- FX Artist | Remote | August 2022
Role
Worked on a Fluid simulation for a commercial
Jobs
- KitKat (2022)
- FLIP simulation for chocolate swirl
MPC Film
- FX Artist | Montreal, QC, CA | January 2019 – November 2019
Role
I worked on various FX simulations for feature films
Jobs
- Dolittle (2020)
- Ocean placements and hay/straw collisions
- Artemis Fowl (2020)
- Laser cuffs
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
- Dark magic around the phoenix
- Dark Phoenix (2019)
- Cracks on skin
Technicolor Academy
- FX Artist | Montreal, QC, CA | October 2018 – December 2019
Role
Trained in the Technicolor Academy as an FX Artist under MPC’s Pipeline
Shrouded Destiny: A Star Wars Fan Film (Part 2)
- FX Artist | Remote | April 2023 – December 2024
Role
I worked on the FX simulations for the Bar fight and a couple additional shots.
Troll Bridge
- FX Artist | Remote | September 2016 – April 2018
Role
I worked on various FX simulations, most notable the snow interaction and sword fx.
University of Colorado Denver
Bachelors of Fine Arts in 3D Animation & VFX
2016 | Denver, CO, USA
SIGGRAPH
N100 Foundations of New Media
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
September 19th, 2022
DCC
- Houdini
- Maya
- Nuke
- Unreal
- Katana
- Adobe CC
- Virtra Systems
Programming
- Python
- C++
- Javascript
- Vex
- Mel
Production Management
- Shotgrid / Flow
- Ftrack
- Ayon
OS
- Linux
- Windows
- Mac
Systems Administration
- Salt Stack
- Infoblox
- ZFS
- NFS
- Software & License Management
Student Volunteer | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Summer 2015