Experience

• Lead Environment Artist at Ironroot Games

  US

  October 2025 - Present

  Leading environment art development for an unannounced original IP in early preproduction within Unreal Engine.
  
  ● Designing and building an environment art pipeline to support expansive world creation with a small team, with
  
  an architecture that can grow as the project scales.
  
  ● Driving look development and art direction through asset creation spanning modeling, texturing, material
  
  system development, and procedural tooling.

• Lead Environment/Procedural Tools Artist at Zenimax Online Studios

  US

  March 2024 - October 2025

  Led a team of 8 environment artists and 4 procedural tools artists for an unannounced MMORPG project.
  
  ● Defined the visual direction for environment assets and props, providing feedback and guidance on internal
  
  and outsourced work.
  
  ● Created example assets to establish style targets and validate workflow approaches.
  
  ● Oversaw cross-discipline collaboration with design and tech teams, ensuring level artists had the assets
  
  needed to support active level production while keeping pipeline tool development aligned with production
  
  requirements and artist needs.
  
  ● Directed development of procedural tools that gave artists direct control over asset variation, damage, and
  
  assembly, reducing manual work without removing artistic intent.
  
  ● Mentored environment artists by identifying individual strengths and targeting their development accordingly,
  
  improving overall team output and consistency.

• Principal Environment Artist at Zenimax Online Studios

  March 2020 - March 2024

  Led environment art asset production and pipeline development in preproduction.
  
  ● Defined visual standards and environment art direction for the project in collaboration with art leadership,
  
  establishing the foundational style target.
  
  ● Worked with design and tech teams to build art pipelines and resolve technical challenges within scope and
  
  performance budgets.
  
  ● Co-designed the project's layered material system with the tech team, enabling significant visual variety and
  
  in-engine adjustability from an efficient base library. Built the working Unreal prototype artists used until the
  
  proprietary engine was production-ready.
  
  ● Prototyped and validated environment features in Unreal Engine ahead of the proprietary engine transition.
  
  ● Created Houdini tools to accelerate environment asset creation, with additional procedural support for the
  
  biome team's landscape and natural assets.

• Senior Environment Artist at Zenimax Online Studios

  March 2010 - March 2020

  Drove the visual development for new style sets across ESO and its expansions, creating modular kits and materials for
  
  the broader team.
  
  ● Collaborated with art leads and designers to define the style and approach for new architecture sets, creating
  
  look development targets to guide the team's work and maintain visual consistency.
  
  ● Produced core modular assets and texture sets other artists used to build large environments efficiently.
  
  ● Replaced the existing content creation pipeline with a PBR workflow, modernizing the team's asset production
  
  standards.

• Environment Artist at Spark Plug Games

  January 2010 - April 2010

  Modeled, textured, and rendered backgrounds for multiple point and click adventure games

• Lighting Artist at Freerange 3D

  September 2009 - October 2009

  Responsible for animation, lighting, and rendering compositing passes for the film Kill Speed

• Production Internship at Angst VFX

  December 2008 - March 2009

  Modeled and animated environments for several music videos and film projects