Professional Experience

  • Rightware

    Sales Engineer-Feb 2020 – Current
    Technical Designer-Feb 2019 – Feb 2020

  • Jackson Dawson Communications

    Technical Artist-Feb 2014 – Feb 2019

Technical Artist, “Swiss-army knife”
with many talents across various applications.


I am very comfortable working with 2D/3D assets,
animations, particle effects, shaders,
and working within cross functional teams.

Objective:

My objective is to gain a job in the game industry as a technical artist and to continue growing my skills and talents. I love to learn, and I strive to improve my abilities.
I have over 10 years in various engine software including Unreal Engine 5, Unity 3D, and Kanzi Studio, as well as many other 2d/3d development software. I am very comfortable working with 2d/3d assets, animations, particle effects, shaders, as well as blueprints.

During my last 10 years, I have worked on a wide variety of projects, from personal all the way to production programs released to the public for customers like Ford, Lincoln, and Honda. My recent experience at Rightware has equipped me with insights into the business side of the industry, enhancing my ability to contribute effectively as a technical artist. I am passionate about the technical process of game development and am committed to continuous learning and improvement. My goal is to apply my diverse skill set and experience to contribute to the success of innovative game projects and ultimately advance into a Lead Technical Artist role.

Sales Engineer

Rightware

  • While filling in for the North American Account Manager, I successfully maintained and developed client relationships, collaborated with the European sales team to support customers, and resolved inquires and issues promptly.

  • Maintained customer licenses for Kanzi one.
    Provided licensing support, for new and existing customers. Teamed up with the Rightware support team to provide platform packages, and cooperated with Finance organizing delivery of sales.

  • The intent of these responsibilities is to increase the global footprint of Rightware’s product Kanzi One. I worked to encourage universities to teach Kanzi to students studying automotive UI/UX.
    I supported partner relations between Tier 1s, Universities, and Rightware and provided support as needed.

  • Visited various customer locations to demonstrate the latest enhancements and impressive new features of Kanzi One. Additionally, provided training and guidance to new users, helping them embark on their design and development journey with Kanzi One."

  • During Customer meetings on location, and at tradeshow events, I was in charge of the demonstration devices, and communicating how these features would be beneficial to a customer. New features, typically lowering costs for customers in the way of speeding up development, decreasing design team head count, ect.

  • Assisted members of the sales team globally with administration work with customers. Including writing POC rough drafts, connected to the correct Kanzi support engineers, and creating presentations/customer demos using Kanzi One.
    Presented new Kanzi One features with technical details needed to increase customer trust in the product and Rightware services.

  • Assisted with licensing issue requests, making introductions to Kanzi engineers internally, and provided general technical advice to continue the sales cycles, and maintain project timelines.

  • Provided the Customer and sales voice to the internal management teams. As well, took data, timelines back out to the sales team. Became the technical liaison for the sales team.

  • In the North America region, I was responsible to keep service projects flowing correctly. Connected the customer contacts, with the services team, organized the meetings and trainings, and assisted with writing the SOW and invoicing details.

  • Local Team onboarding,
    Facilitate team events,
    Ensure required assets and resources are acquired.
    General maintained the office culture, and quality of the Detroit office environment.

  • Facilitated customer meetings and invitations.
    Gathered notes from the sales team, and created follow up requests for the team.

    Managed the shipping of assets from the Detroit office to Rightware Suite in Vegas.

  • Managed shipping of marketing assets from Rightware Detroit office to Vegas.
    Supported sales staff on customer relations and administration. Demonstrated new and improved Kanzi One features to customers including the Kanzi One ECockpit 8.0 demo, and the new Kanzi One Templates.

  • In charge of demonstration set up and presentation. Point person on Kanzi One demoes, and the customer experience when visiting the Rightware suite.
    Supported sales staff with introductions, and inviting the team to further the business discussions.

  • Visited Riva del Garda, Italy with the entire Rightware Sales team to correct inconsistencies, and plan for future growth, and improve customer trust/relationships.
    Provided technical feedback on the Kanzi tool, and customer impressions.

  • Lead the Rightware relationship, and managed the entire set up/take down of the Rightware booth.
    Met with customers and showcased the native Kanzi-Android integration.

  • Lead the Rightware relationship, and managed the entire set up/take down of the Rightware booth.
    Met with customers and showcased the native Kanzi-Android integration.
    Showcased the new rendering and graphical improvements of Kanzi One.

Technical Designer

Rightware

  • Assisted Kanzi services team with providing features for customers. These ranged from 3D model updates, to work directly in the customer projects. Often it was quickly implementing a feature the customer was unaware of how to do.

  • Supporting customers with Kanzi License requests, basic feature implementation, and Kanzi Studio guidance. Provided feedback on ways to improve customer workflows, and shared important documentation needed by customers.

  • Facilitated introductory training of Kanzi One to new users. I guided them through the installation process, and the basics of generating a HMI. The customers trainings were typically using their assets, and converted topics that they specifically needed assistance on for the future projects.

  • Working with the Kanzi Services team, I provided 3D model optimizations. These included retopology of dense meshes, or UV unwraps, texture bakes, and mesh updates for animations.

  • Created assets with input from customer to create a plan, and training assets to be taught during sessions. 

This design was done by an artist I found on behance, my responsibility was to implement the designs into Kanzi Studio as a training for new users.

Technical Artist

Jackson Dawson Communications

  • One of the 4 first members of the team that later became known as Texel Logic at Jackson Dawson.
    Jackson Dawson was at the time a traditional automotive marketing company, that created dealership marketing as well as directly working for various Ford brands.

  • I worked directly with the Lead and Senior artists on the 3d team to create the 3d pipeline, and periodically refine it over time for improvements, and different visual quality packages.

  • Responsible for creation of shaders and finding visual enhancements to render build and price Unity experiences to look as close to real as possible.
    Optimized shaders for multiple platforms, from Windows to mobile.

  • Consistently on the leading edge of new features from Unity, and trying out plugins, packages, to speed up development workflows as well as enhancing graphic quality.
    Additionally I was always on the look out for new things that could be used to tell a great automotive story or educate potential new car owners of technology in the vehicle.

  • Used external software and built in Unity systems to check the project for performance, as well as look over the many aspects of the project for visual imperfections.

  • I created visual effects for every project that Texel Logic worked on. Most of the time, these effects were limited to wind gusts, or radar beams based on art direction, but I strove to create more dynamic and impressive effects as Unity Particle engine became more advanced.

  • In many projects we recieved the cad models, with every trim and tier for the vehicle. It was my responsibility to match the different automotive parts and configurations to be used in the different scenes. I matched these against a buyers guide we were issued with the CAD data.

  • Ford Truth About Trucks 2020

    Truth About Trucks was a display that would educate potential new F-150 owners of the new technology and improvements that are in the new trucks. The display included frame cross sections, pistons, and material samples used in the manufacturing of the truck frames. This demonstration was all created in digital within our team using Unity 3D.

  • This was a midyear update to the Truth About Trucks demo, that included the Ford F250 models.

  • Lincoln Custom Fit 2021

    Lincoln Experience wer    e the user could build and price a new Lincoln, as well as see all the different technologies that existed in each model. The demonstrator was in Lincoln Experience Stores in California.

  • The app showcased the hybrid technology and focused on how the vehicle regenerated energy. The app also explained the vehicle designs, and how Honda pushed the limits to make a vehicle as energy efficient as possible.