Resume

 

Professional Experience

Big Huge Games / 38 Studios
2008-Current                                                             
Timonium, MD
Cinematic Director

• Directed and Designed all run-time and pre-rendered cinematics
• Archtiected and designed the cinematic pipeline and tools
• Created and designed all pre-production animatics
• Directed all motion capture shoots
• Created all vignette cameras and dialogue camera systems
• Supervised the production for the entire cinematic team
  

 

Lucas Arts
2007-2008
San Francisco, CA
Cinematic Director

• Directed, and Art-Directed all run-time and pre-rendered cinematics
• Created animatics for cinematic sequences and game-play vignettes
• Supervised all key-frame animation with a team of ILM animators
• Supervised all facial animation using both key-frame and facial motion-capture
• Created all cameras and editing for the cinematics
• Supervised the production of all special effects

 

Midway Games
2002-2007
Chicago, IL
Studio Cinematic Director

• Studio Director for all game teams creating hundreds of run-time and pre-rendered cinematics
• Designed and created all animatics for the Chicago studio
• Reviewed, advised, and created animatics for other Midway studios and projects
• Directed over 200 motion capture shoots
• Supervised all areas of creative production for all cinematics
• Created cinematic sequences and assets for marketing

 

DreamForge Intertainment
1995-2001
Greensburg, PA
Cinematic Director / Post-Production Supervisor

• Directed and edited all pre-rendered and in-game cinematics
• Created post-production effects and compositing
• Designed and Created all animatics
• Supervised cinematic team

 

Credits

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
38 Studios / EA 2012 (Cinematic Director) – Directed all real-time cinematics and pre-rendered cinematics.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Lucas Arts 2008 (Cinematic Director) – Directed all 71 real-time cinematics. Winner Screen Writers Guild Best Video Game Story and Interactive Achievement Awards Outstanding Achievement in Adapted Story for 2009 .

Stranglehold
Midway Games 2007 (Cinematic Director) – Directed all 36 cinematics and designed all animatics based on storyboards provided by John Woo’s team.

Mortal Kombat Armageddon
Midway Games 2006 (Cinematic Director) – Directed and designed a 60 character opening cinematic.

NBA Ballers Phenom
Midway Games 2006 (Cinematic Director) – Directed and designed all 20 in-game cinematics for the games story mode.

Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
Midway Games 2005 (Cinematic Director) – Directed and designed a 15 character fight scene for the opening and
all pre-rendered cinematics.

Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict
Epic Games / Midway Games 2005 (Cinematography /editing/ Animatics) Designed 13 in-game cinematics for the story mode.

Area 51
Inevitable Software / Midway Games 2005 (Animatic Designer)

The Suffering: Ties that Bind
Surreal Software / Midway Games 2005 (Animatic Designer)   Designed animatics for 15 in-game cinematics including the opening and ending.

Mortal Kombat Deception
Midway Games 2004 (Cinematic Director) – Directed and designed the opening cinematic and created the camera and shot design for 15 in-game scenes. Designed the camera layouts and edits for in-game suicides and fatalities.

Psi-Ops: the Mindgate Conspiracy
Midway Games 2003 (Cinematic Director) – Directed and designed all 41 cinematics

Werewolf the Apocalypse
ASC Games/White Wolf Studios 2000 (Cinematic Director) – Directed 16 pre-rendered cinematics.

Warhammer 40,000 Rites of War
SSI, 1999 (Cinematic Director) – Directed all cinematics for this RTS.

TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter
ASC Games, 1998 (Texture Artist)

Sanitarium
ASC Games / DreamForge Intertainment, 1997 (Cinematic Director) – Directed all 46 pre-rendered cinematics for this 1997 Adventure Game of the Year

War Wind 2: Human Onslaught
SSI / DreamForge Intertainment, 1996 (Cinematic Director) - Directed all 43 cinematics

War Wind
SSI / DreamForge Intertainment 1996 (3D Artsit)

 

Invited Talks and Presentations

Game Developers Conference China 2009, Shanghai, China - Invited Speaker
Game Developers Conference 2009, San Francisco, CA - Speaker (Cinematic Game Design 3)
FMX 2007, Stuttgart, Germany - Invited Speaker
Game Developers Conference 2007, San Francisco, CA - Speaker (Cinematic Game Design 2)
Montreal Game Summit 2006, Montreal Quebec - Invited Speaker
Game Developers Conference 2006, San Jose, CA - Speaker (Cinematic Game Design)

 

Education

Pittsburgh Technical Institute                                                                 
Associate Degree in Graphic Design, July 1995                                                                                  
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Associate Degree in Film Production, August 1991
Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Associate Degree in Photography/Multi-media, March 1984