Experience

• 3D Artist at Meta

  Redmond, WA

  September 2021 - Present

  Project Aria Digital Twin focuses on creating high-fidelity photorealistic 3D digital twins of spaces for the Metaverse, providing highly accurate ground-truth datasets, powering AR research
  
  Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity photorealistic 3D digital twins of spaces for the Metaverse
  
  Scan data processing and cleanup, modeling from scans and retopology using FARO SCENE, Blender, and Houdini
  
  Gathering photogrammetry data, baking textures, aligning and processing it in Reality Capture. 3D modeling, unwrapping, texturing photorealistic environment and prop assets for rendering and real-time use in Maya, Blender, Substance Painter and SpeedTree
  
  Inspecting and retouching vendor-created assets. Providing vendors with detailed feedback
  
  Assembling NVIDIA Omniverse, Unreal Engine and Unity scenes using Blender and Houdini
  
  Rendering photorealistic scenes and compiling presentation materials using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe AfterEffects
  
  Creating documentation on pipeline best practices for use by other Technical Artists and adjacent teams
  
  Working with the engineering and operations teams to develop and improve current workflows and tooling
  
  Collaborating with stakeholders to estimate and delegate work in order to meet deadlines
  
  Helping ramp up new team members and franchisees, ensuring successful knowledge transfer

  https://www.projectaria.com/datasets/adt/

• Contract Artist at Amazon

  Seattle, United States of America

  September 2019 - March 2021

  Part of a large team of 3D Artists creating 360 renders of furniture for use on Amazon storefronts, VR applications and machine-learning datasets
  
  Responsibilities included creating and retouching 3D assets and materials for use in web-based, real-time applications, and photorealistic renderings
  
  3D modeling, unwrapping, texturing, lighting realistic static models in a fast-paced production environment using Maya, ZBrush & Substance Painter
  
  Providing the development team with feedback on internal features and workflow optimization, as well as assisting management in task distribution and facilitating meetings
  

• Artist Care / Content Creator at StratusCore Inc.

  Seattle, United States of America

  April 2019 - August 2019

  Testing and QA of products developed for the virtual workstation platform

  Development of 2D and 3D assets and marketing materials for vendors and customers

  Research, documentation and reporting of current trends in the digital artist community, latest software, partners and competition

  Developing software vendor relationships through outreach, on-boarding, testing and providing support for current and perspective partners

  Improving existing workflows and organizational systems, providing the development team with feedback

• 2D/3D Artist at Malika K LLC in partnership with Zombie’s Delight Studio LLC

  Bellevue, United States of America

  March 2018 - Present

  Co-creator of a VR simulator game made for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows MR using the Unreal Engine. Released to market on Steam in August 2018, demoed at PAX 2018
  
  3D asset creation and optimization, PBR and procedural materials, levels assembly and environments, effects and lighting, concept art, graphic design, marketing materials
  
  Software used includes Maya, Blender, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, UE4, Photoshop, AfterEffects

  www.apehit.com
  

• Creative Consultant/2D Artist/3D Artist/Material Artist at Malika K LLC as an independent contractor for Peekr Inc.

  Bellevue, United States of America

  September 2017 - July 2018

  • Responsibilities include ensuring artistic consistency, custom asset design, texturing and retopology of existing assets, optimization of assets and textures for optimal performance for use in Augmented Reality applications
  
  • Tools used: Blender, Photoshop, Substance Painter, Unity, Git for source control
  
  • Photography and Photoshop used for creating 2D promotional materials

• 3D Artist/Material Artist at LWTech Game Development Club (non-commercial)

  Kirkland, United States of America

  August 2016 - August 2017

  • Project “Tales of Lunea" is an immersive VR multi-player open world experience developed for HTC Vive and Oculus VR systems using the Unreal game engine
  
  • Presented at PAX West 2017, IFest 2017 and Power of Play 2017, GE2 2016
  
  • Responsibilities included ensuring artistic consistency, managing a team of up to ten artists, custom asset design, texturing and retopology of existing assets, optimization of assets and textures for scalable performance in VR
  
  • Tools used: Blender, Maya, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, World Machine, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop, UE4, SVN
  
  www.talesoflunea.com

• Environment Artist at Zombie's Delight Studio (non-commercial)

  Kirkland, United States of America

  January 2016 - August 2016

  • Project “Trek” was developed as a part of a Game Development Club at Lake Washington Technical Institute and was successfully presented at PAX2016, IFest 2016 and Power of Play 2016
  
  • Directed the overall stylistic of a VR experience based on the movie Labyrinth (1986) using Unreal Engine and Oculus Rift DK-2
  
  • Managed the work of five student artists, development schedules, technical and stylistic requirements
  
  • Developed in-game assets using Maya, Photoshop, Substance Designer & Substance Painter