Design, animation and production experience helps me balance creative goals with production constraints to improve the quality of life for my team – while focusing on player experience and game quality.
AAA Agile Development
Feature Development
Creating structure and actionable goals for cross-disciplinary teams to track, predict and communicate needs and deliverables.
Sprint Planning
Understanding a teams velocity to provide accurate sprint and milestone goals while making sure that work aligns with project vision.
Budget Management
Turning abstract goals into concrete deliverables, timelines and budgets.
Animation Pipeline & Motion Capture
Motion Capture Production
Experience in full pipeline mocap production from stage calibration to cleaning and retargeting animation data.
Animation Pipeline Management
Communicating design needs to animators and managing the pipeline to get complex animations from idea to in-engine with SFX, VFX, etc.
Cross Discipline Production
Creating automation in Jira and Shotgrid to categorize and track animation requests and their status to other teams.
Software and Proficiencies
Game Production
Jira, Shotgrid and Microsoft Project.
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Developing workflows and automation in these softwares allows me to cater pipelines to my teams needs.
Creative Tools
MotionBuilder, Maya and Blender.
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Familiarity with these tools allows me to better understand and review the pipeline that animators work through.
Game Development
Unreal Engine, C++ and Perforce.
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Being a bridge between designers, animators and engineers means that you need to be able to understand their work, not just track it.
