• Present-
• Valkyrie Studios - 3D Artist
  Character creation for "Septerra Core", a Role Playing Adventure Game being developed for Win95. Developing character designs as sketches followed by modeling and texturing using Maya and Photoshop.

• 1996-97
• Rabid Entertainment (formerly Viacom New Media) - 3D Artist
  Responsible for the creation of levels for "Violent Seed", an overhead shooter for the Sony Playstation. Designed layouts and visual themes for game levels. Built geometry for level grounds and real-time world objects using Softimage. Created texture maps for level geometry using Photoshop, Softimage and Bryce2.
• 1989-92
• Marwen Foundation - Muralist/Designer
• 1990
• Freelance Illustrator

• Graphics Software - Maya, Softimage, Photoshop, DeBabelizer, Fractal Design Painter
• Programming Languages - C, (some)C++, OpenGL
• Platforms - Silicon Graphics, Macintosh, NT, UNIX
• Skills and Interests - Modeling, Animation, Texture Map Creation, Image Processing

• 1990-95
  University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) -
  Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Art and Design Electronic Media Major, with emphasis on 2-D and 3-D computer animation, 16mm film animation, and video. Used SGI workstations and the CAVE virtual reality theater at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) for computer graphics animation and virtual reality artworks.

• 1994
• Received Undergraduate Achievement Award for Electronic Visualization
• Awarded John B. Wally Fellowship
• Received Talent Tuition Award in Electronic Media
• Dean's List

• 1996
• "Virtually the Greatest Show on Earth", contributing virtual reality artist, part of "Neither Here Nor There" at the Digital Bayou and The Bridge at SIGGRAPH 96
• 1995
• "CIRCUS", contributing virtual reality artist, EVE4, Electronic Visualization Lab - UIC
• 1990
• Contributing artist, Marwen Foundation Classical Drawing Exhibit, Junior Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago

Volunteer at Supercomputing 95, SIGGRAPH 94 and SIGGRAPH 92

When not acting as the U.S. Ambassador to Chile, I enjoy drawing, cooking, cycling, and searching for new and different ways to skin cats.