Saffire Corp.
734 East Utah Valley Drive, American Fork, UT 84003

Lead Designer, FX Artist
September 2003 to June 2005

• Design Lead: Coordinated and participated in the creation of over 16 game design, technical design and game concept documents in the last 9 months.  Produced 2 marketing videos and an interactive game prototype including 2 fully animated characters over the space of 3 months.
• Visual FX: Created particle FX systems and scripted animation sequences for weapons, impacts, explosions, moving objects, dynamic lights, and ambient environment effects.
  

Lightning Studios
Contact: Neil Melville

Game Designer, Illustrator
August 1993 to Present

• Production: Coordinated press production during the 4-month production phase, including die design for punch out playing pieces and card tray.
• Illustration: Led art production for game components, illustrated over 300 card images in 2 months.
• Game Design: Designed all game mechanics and wrote game manual.
  

Beyond Games, Inc.
370 E South Temple, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

3D Art Lead, Designer, Animator
September 1997 to May 2003

• Art Direction: Supervised and scheduled team of 6 internal artists and 3 contractors to create 36 cars, 28 levels, 14 missions, 17 pick-ups, and 37 interface screens during the 9 month production phase.
• 3D Modeling and Texture-mapping: Constructed 30 characters, 16 vehicles, and 10 weapons, all with texturing and LODs, within the space of 6 months.
• Animation: Created full set of motions for player characters and items.  Scripted special animation FX.
• Game Design: Wrote game mechanics, interface functionality, level layouts, mission walkthroughs, and character designs.  Coordinated implementation plans with Tools Manager and Code team.
• Level Design: Planned game level layouts, built game-play prototypes, and completed levels with texture creation and application, lighting and event scripting.
• Weapon Design: Implemented 13 pick up weapons from concept to in game completion (designed, modeled, textured, animated, and scripted) in 6 weeks.  Balanced combat game play.
• Conceptual Art:  Created game level layouts, animation storyboards, and design illustrations for characters, items, vehicles, and weapons.
  

Cobalt Interactive, LLC.
370 E South Temple, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Freelance Production
July 1999 to Dec 1999

• Video Game concept development and level design: Lead production of background elements for Quaker's Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure.
  

Axiom Design

Freelance Production
July 1997 to September 1997

• Digital illustration: Worked with Single Trac on front-end interface and HUD for Critical Depth and Outwars.
  

Sculptured Software, Inc.
2150 S Highland Drive, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84006

Artist
February 1994 to September 1997

• Developed methods for maximizing graphical fidelity within hardware and memory budgets: Constructed 2D levels limited to 12 colors each, Managed image palettes for display of the 2 player characters, HUD, background, and all game FX within the 32 color limit.
• 2D Art: Created 3D rendered backgrounds, menus, and animations, as well as sprite animations for characters and backgrounds, and built levels for both 2D and 3D game-play environments.