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First VFX IC Hire on a new, unannounced title as part of Riot R&D, responsible for building up and engineering the foundations for VFX systems, workflows, styles, and tools to create a whole lot of sparkle magic for a new team, as well as assisting VALORANT and general R&D teams with VFX Engineering and Support.

• Created and implimented our baseline VFX assets across combat, environment, character, and gameplay areas for a stylized FPS.
• Oversaw and implimented our baseline VFX production pipeline, including tools, C++/Blueprints/Niagarascript, workflows, and documentation.
• Served as VFX performance PoC, ensuring we were under budget and optimizing/restructuring assets as the game evolved.
• Served as iterem team lead during multiple periods, owning the VFX Discipline’s day-to-day.
• Mentored other R&D games and VALORANT on VFX best practices, including helping junior artists level up their technical skillset.
• Worked with VALORANT Engineering and Technical Art on a number of cross-buisness unit tasks.

Created gameplay and cosmetic VFX for multiple Destiny 2 releases, collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and art leadership to ship content at scale, while investigating and researching new technology for the Systems and Player Rewards areas.

• Created and implemented VFX assets for Player Rewards and other teams within the Systems area and beyond.
• Worked as a stakeholder for VFX in the Commerce Area, providing feedback and risk assessments, and participating in the greenlight process for Expressions content, such as Emotes and Finishers.
• Collaborated with other Artists, Producers, and Art Directors on various small teams to ensure on-schedule completion of assets in a pipeline production format.
• Provided actionable feedback and direction as well as mentorship to other artists, including Junior Artists, within the VFX discipline.
• Researched and developed systemic VFX solutions for various teams, helping to make the creation and maintenance of new and existing VFX systems easy and intuitive, even for non-VFX artists.
• Came up with creative, out of the box solutions for large, systemic issues related to the Rewards area. This can be seen in the implimentation of Weapon VFX and Gear rotation for the Inspection Screen, as well as developing per-plug item VFX.

Supported senior VFX artists on Destiny 2 content, building particle systems, shaders, and in-game integrations while ramping up on large-scale production pipelines.

Worked on the conception, design, and completion of various community contributed real-time particle effects in Valve Software's Team Fortress 2, created and ran promotional materials and campaigns for the effects and their associated Steam Workshop pages, and worked with Valve to add them to Team Fortress 2, with a focus on readability, style cohesion, and player delight.

• Came up with technically interesting and visually appealing concepts for particle systems that would excite players, while also fitting the theme of upcoming updates and original art direction.
• Executed on those concepts and rapidly iterated on them, creating particle systems, textures, shaders, and more in order to turn around finished products by deadlines.
• Brought WIP assets to a community of other artists in order to ask for feedback, and then quickly iterated on those suggestions back into the asset.
• Lead a team of promotional artists that created exciting images and videos in order to promote the sale of said particle effects.