What are your strengths?
My biggest strength is my experience. I worked for big Publishers like EA, but also for small developers like Spark Unlimited. This mix exposed me to a great range of challenges including production systems and management problems. I started at the bottom of the ladder and after many years emerged as an art director. This bottom-up experience gives me a unique perspective on how things should be done, see problems before they flare up, and manage people and projects with care and expertise. I'm hands on guy who works closely with the team, supports, and inspire.
I'm very approachable (something that was expressed to me many times). I love to work with artists one on one, to resolve problems and guide.
What were your duties as an Art Director?
- Establish next-gen visual direction and production standards
- Lead and support multiple artists or teams (under scrum system)
- Identify problems that can be addressed visually and provide solutions
- Create and assist with management of project schedules and planning
- Conduct critiques with clear and consistent direction to the art team
- Responsible for mentoring, training, and performance evaluations for art teams and individual artists
- Helping the team with modeling, lighting, and texturing
- Conducting job interviews--being part of the decision making process
What are your duties as an educator?
- Providing academic leadership, selecting, training, developing, and managing faculty
- Providing input into planning and implementation of annual budget including personnel, program expenses, and capital needs
- Assessing and monitoring programmatic institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes
- Collaborating with other Academic Department Directors within school and across schools: scheduling, sharing faculty, and developing rubrics for institutional effectiveness
- Fostering students’ achievements, academic persistence and success
- Instructing portfolio level game art and design students
- Supervising "Game Wizards" production classes: developing mods projects using UDK, Unity and Flash
- Creating and maintaining a constructive system of critiques and feedbacks, reinforcing team-building skills and building communication and problem solving skills
Can you legally work in the US or Europe?
Yes, I'm US citizen. I also have EU passport.
Are you willing to relocate?
Yes, I will go where great opportunities exist.