Experience

• Lighting Artist at Bungie

  Bellevue, WA, United States of America

  October 2018 - Present

• Senior Lighting Artist at Monolith Productions (WB Games)

  Kirkland, WA, United States of America

  May 2016 - May 2018

  - Environment lighting utilizing both dynamic and baked lighting techniques in a PBR (physically-based rendering) pipeline

  - Created and tuned atmospheres, fog, HDR and post-process effects, skies, and environment map probes

  - Ownership and placement of 4500 dynamic torch light instances across all environments to enhance visuals, game play, and storytelling

  - Lighting related performance work to ensure game play lighting stays within performance budget

• Lighting Artist at Microsoft Studios, Turn 10 (via Filter Digital, LLC)

  Redmond, WA, United States of America

  October 2014 - April 2016

  - Created environment and car lighting for day and night lighting scenarios

  - Placed and tuned pre-rendered and dynamic lights as well as environment map probes

  - Developed processes and provided feedback to improve workflow and tools for night lighting

  - Documented lighting pipeline and processes and trained other lighting artists

  - Collaborated closely with programmers and art leads to improve night lighting visuals while ensuring environments stayed within performance limits

• Lighting Artist at Microsoft Studios, Turn 10 (via Filter Digital, LLC)

  Redmond, WA, United States of America

  July 2013 - June 2014

  - Fixed modeling and UV layout issues to improve environment lighting

  - Managed render farm and rendering of lightmaps