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3D Content Creation Specialist +

Technical Product Marketing

NVIDIA

2018 - Present

Convert, build and maintain content for and from various rendering engines including Arnold, V-ray, Redshift and Cycles.
Troubleshoot and document new rendering features on the GPU. Maintain thorough internal documentation on interactive and final frame rendering for multiple engines including command-line/ standalone rendering.
Communicate with partners and developers, report and file bugs and investigate possible rendering interests or issues.
Work with new software and technologies , identifying new features and testing and documenting workflow and pipelines.
Work closely with coworkers to deliver concise documentation for live demos and publishable testing guides.
Create 3D Demo content for events, software testing , and tutorials.

3D Content Creation Specialist

West Valley Staffing for NVIDIA

2016 - 2018

Create and publish accurate , seamless, and flexible PBR materials for Nvidia's vMaterial library.
Create custom MDL materials and functions for added flexibility to advanced users.
Troubleshoot and debug issues pertaining to integration of vMaterials or MDLs in supported applications.
Create 3D Demo content for events, software testing , and tutorials pertaining to MDL, Mental-ray and Iray.
Assist teams with concepting and previsualization of demo content.
Prep 3D concepts and scenes with modeling, retopology, uving, layout, texturing, material creation, lighting and rendering expertise.
Work with new softwares and technologies , testing and documenting workflow and pipelines.

Graphic Visualization Artist

2015

TekSystems for BOSCH

Visualize use cases for future innovations.
Create 3D pre-visualization layouts, camera layouts and basic camera blocking
Model, texture, light and export various assets for use inside of custom algorithms and solutions.
Find creative artistic solutions to address custom software limitations and push visual design.
Develop unique and clean iconography for various Heads – Up- Displays in augmented reality and virtual reality platforms.
Write and maintain technical artist documentation for unique pipelines and software implementations.
Graphical manipulation and drawing used for visualization.

Lead TD & Lead Texture Artist

2014 - 2016

UV, texture and create shaders characters and assets. Prep Surfaced assets for Pipeline.
Create hair and fur systems for characters and troubleshoot new Xgen Features for Vray in Maya
Troubleshoot and update Rigs and geometry for caching in production
Modeling and Model fixes for various assets, props and characters.
Review and manage surfacing team's assets and files.
Create and prep environment scenes for lighting stages.

2014 - 2016

Lead TD

2015 - 2017

Texture Artist , Lighting TD & Detail Modeler

Explore and Develop strategies for appliying High Resolution Details and Feathers to creatures to be used with animation.
Create high resolution detail sculpts on female Styracosaurus's and Dromaeosaurus and extract maps for low resolution mesh.
UV, Texture, and create and assign shaders to female styracosauruses based on provided concept art.
Update Rigs with Geometry and UV changes and Cache animations for Lighting and Rendering.
Match CG lighting with template plate of real life footage and Composite passes for 3D assets to be used on a live plate.