Experience

• Lighting Artist II at Halo Studios

  April 2025 - April 2026

  (contract)

  + Lighting Owner for a level in Halo: Campaign Evolved. Supported lighting in
  
  additional levels as-needed.

  + Worked with engineers to achieve requisite lighting performance and fidelity
  
  across several hardware specs and platforms.

  + Supported lighting team’s shader-based needs, such as emissives, light
  
  functions, light cones, fog cards, fog volumes, post-processes, etc. using UE’s
  
  shader graph and HLSL, and designed for optimum performance.

  + Developed, maintained, and documented a suite of core lighting tools to
  
  streamline & standardize content workflow as well as support the integration of
  
  interactive lighting behaviors.

• Lighting Artist at Nintendo

  Redmond, US

  October 2022 - October 2023

  (contract)

  + Lighting Owner for several levels in Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo Switch). Supported lighting in additional levels as-needed.

  + Worked closely with artists, designers, and engineers to achieve quality within gameplay and strict performance constraints.

  + Developed tools to enhance material authoring workflow for PBR and content standardization, improving material lighting responses and visual consistency.

  + Collaborated with Engineers to devise solutions to improve upon rendering behaviors and performance.

• 3D Generalist at Ignite XR

  Remote

  January 2022 - October 2022

  (freelance)

  + Concepted & developed real-time AR experiences for Fortune 500 clients.

  + Optimized shader and scripting logic for real-time rendering on modern mobile hardware.