EDUCATION

 

2009 - ART INSTITUTE ONLINE, DIVISION OF PITTSBURGH (Currently Enrolled)

Program of Study:  Game Art and Design

 

1999 - CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON  

Program of Study: Graphic Design/Illustration

 

 

TECHNICAL

SUMMARY

Languages:  Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

 

Operating Systems: Microsoft® Windows™ 98/2000/XP

 

Productivity Tools: 3D Studio Max, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe InDesign, Macromedia Flash MX, Microsoft® Word™ 2000/XP, 2000/XP, Microsoft® Excel™ 2000/XP, Microsoft® FrontPage™ 2000/XP,

 

 

PROFESSIONAL

SUMMARY

Excellent detail-oriented and creative skills. Ability to work as team player.

·         8 years as an Illustrator/Digital Art

·         4 years as a Flash Animator

·         3 years experience in a Desktop Publishing Environment

 

Diversified training in Graphic Applications, Web site design and traditional and digital illustration.

 

 

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

1999 – 2006:  Anime Expo®

Description: Anime Expo ® is the primary annual event hosted by The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA). As a vehicle to promote animation and comics and a venue for the fan community, it has the pleasure of being the largest tradeshow in the US of its kind. In 2005, in its 14th year of existence, Anime Expo's ® attendance topped 33,000 attendees over the course of 4 days. Despite this success, Anime Expo ® is still predominantly run by fans, who volunteer their time and efforts.

 

Anime Expo Management positions:

Division Head for Guest Services (2001-2006)

Staff Headcount for the entire Division: 30

Duties:

·         Supervised all departments under Guest Services Division which include Greenroom Department, Interpreter Department and Guest Selection Committee.

·         Responsible for decision making of the selection of the Guest of Honors that hail from

        the Japanese animation and comic industry

·         Acted as an ambassador between Guest Relations and different anime, manga and music companies like Bandai Entertainment, Bandai Visual, Geneon, Kodansha, Broccoli, Lantis, Avex, Sony Music Japan – Tofu Records, Go! Comi, King Records, Traffic Promotions, Madhouse and many others.

·         Responsible for Guest of Honor” logistics and housing

·         Responsible for setting up Guest of Honor events such as the ‘Meet the Guests: Reception’, Focus Panels, Concerts and Autograph/Sketch sessions.

 

Department Head for the Art and Modeling Show. (1999 - 2001)

Staff headcount for entire department: 11

Duties:

·         Responsible for keeping track of artwork logistics and art show layouts.

·         Worked with GOFA (Gallery of Fantastic Art) to assist in promotion of well-known Japanese artists such as Kia Asamiya and Range Murata to name a few.

·         Supervised ‘Artist Alley’ which consists of professional and amateur artists selling their work.

 

 

GAME TITLES

CREDITED

·         Ben 10 (Mattel) – Hyperscan game system

·         X-Men (Mattel) – Hyperscan game system

·         Interstellar Galactic Wrestling (Mattel) – Hyperscan game system

·         SPYRO: A HERO’S TALE ™ (Vivendi Universal Games) – Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube

·         World Championship Poker 2 (Crave Entertainment) – Playstation 2, Xbox

·         SnoCross 2 (Crave Entertainment) – Playstation, Xbox

·         The Bible Game (Crave Entertainment) – Playstation 2, Xbox, Gameboy Advanced

·         Sky Dancers (Crave Entertainment) – Game Boy Advanced

 

 

ANIME TITLES

CREDITED

·         The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - (Coordinated Collector box design layouts, DVD wraps/Faceart)

·         Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny - (Coordinated Collector boxes design layouts, DVD wraps/Faceart/T-Shirt Design)

·         Eureka Seven - (Coordinated Collector box design layouts, DVD wraps/Faceart creation)

·         My Otome - (Coordinated Collector box design layout, DVD wraps/Faceart)

·         Flag - (Designed Collector box concept and layout/ DVD wraps/Faceart)

·         ZegaPain - (Coordinated Collector box design layout, DVD wraps/Faceart)

·         .hack//ROOTS - (Collector boxes, DVD wraps/Faceart)

·         Lucky Star - (Designed concept mockup for Collector box, DVD wraps/Faceart/ T-Shirt Design)- Currently in production

·         Code Geass - (Sketched Line art illustration concepts/designed mockup for Collector box, DVD wraps/Faceart) – Currently in production

·         Dandoh Anime Legend Complete Collection (Designed Wrap)

·         Cowboy Bebop: Best Sessions – (Recreated wrap for Scanavo amaray case)

 

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

 

 

March 2008 –

Present

Cream Puff Café Studios/Crunchy Pixel Studios, Pasadena

Character Designer/Illustrator (Contract)

PC Game Development

 

 

 

Duties

 

·         Designed characters for their upcoming PC game

·         Illustrated backgrounds for PC game

·         Designed Company Character Motif

 

 

March 2007 –

March 2008

Bandai Entertainment Inc, Cypress

Package Designer/Coordinator/Marketing rep for trade shows

Marketing Division

 

 

 

Duties

·         In charge of coordinating the designs for DVD wraps and Faceart

·         Created DVD collector box mockups

·         Designed the English versions of the original Japanese title treatments

·         Illustrated character model “action” concepts for the title, “Code Geass”

·         Participated in Anime Convention “Industry Panels” to help announce Bandai’s Latest anime acquisitions as well as up and coming releases.

 

 

May 2006 –

February 2007

Mattel,  El Segundo

Production Assistant  - Contract

Interactive Game Division

 

 

 

Production Assistant Duties -

·         Examined all game artwork (Background designs, characters designs, etc)

·         Checked for inconsistencies in artwork. Used Character model sheets and game design document for reference.

·         Created mock-ups of different game jewel case sleeves.

·         Created mock-ups of how characters or particular artistic aspects of a game should look.

·         Cleaned up various game screenshots for print and web media advertising.

 

QA -

·         Explored all game levels for bugs and glitches on Mattel’s new game console.

·         Wrote clear and concise steps of each bug that I discovered and entered them into the bug database for the game developers to reproduce.

·         Also utilized the aid of screen captures for bug reproduction

 

 

 

January 2006 –

May 2006

Sony Pictures Digital (Mobile), Culver City

QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST – Contract

Mobile Division

 

 

 

·         Explored all game levels for bugs and glitches on mobile handsets as well as online games

·         Wrote clear and concise steps of each bug that I discovered and entered them into the bug database for the game developers to reproduce.

·         Also utilized the aid of screen captures for bug reproduction

 

 

July 2002 -

April 2003

Bandai America Networks., Cypress, CA

FLASH ARTIST – Contract

Network division

 

 

 

·         With graphic images provided by Bandai, I designed the layout of an online Digimon game based on the old card game called ‘Concentration’ or simply, ‘Memory’.

·         Created the layouts of an online drag-n-drop/shooting game to help promote the new season of "Power Rangers". Provided a thumbnail storyboard that acted as a visual flow chart to assist in the creation of the Power Rangers online game as well as the Digimon game

·         Both online games were created with Macromedia Flash and Adobe Photoshop.

 

 

Sept 2001 -

July 2002

Anime Expo, Anaheim, CA

CHARACTER DESIGNER – Contract

 

 

 

·         Responsible for Character recreation of SPJA’s convention mascot. Anime Expo’s “Max”

·         From preliminary concept sketches to final draft picks for Anime Expo’s 2002 Program Guide content. Media: Adobe Photoshop

 

 

May 1998 -

June 1998

Wonderland Designs, Alhambra, CA

CHARACTER DESIGNER – Contract

 

 

 

·         Character/Concept Design

·         Redesigned and manipulated company logo

·         Media: Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop