Experience

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  Ninetimes ad agency

  May 1998 - Nov 2009

  Art director and illustrator

  Art direction of print collateral, advertising, exhibit graphics, web, interactive, and animation projects. Creation of digital illustrations and animations for advertising. Copy editing and translation into Spanish.

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  Santa rosa junior college

  Sept 2001 - May 2014

  Adjunct instructor

  Adjunct instructor teaching beginning and advanced Photoshop, Illustrator, Intro to Flash Animation, Digital Media, and Online Portfolio classes. Subbed for other graphics classes. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor in all these programs.

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  Pixel corps

  Oct 2007 - Jan 2009

  Team leader, matte painter, digital matte team

  Worked as Junior Artisan, Senior Artisan, then Team Leader on the Digital Matte team. Oversaw and directed other artists on matte painting, compositing, and animation projects. Created matte paintings, textures, camera-mapped animations, and concept sketches for animation shorts and film trailers.

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  Academy of art university

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2013

  Instructor

  Teaching undergraduate mid-level Photoshop imaging classes

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  College of marin

  Aug 2011 - May 2015

  Adjunct instructor

  Part-time instructor teaching introductory and intermediate multimedia, design and typography with Illustrator and Photoshop, Premier, and other programs.

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  Sonoma small business development center

  Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

  Instructor

  Adjunct instructor teaching digital imaging with Photoshop CS5 and CS6.

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  Factory vfx

  Feb 2013 - Mar 2015

  Paint and roto artist

  On-call plate reconstruction, rotoscoping

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  Lds motion picture studio

  Apr 2013 - Aug 2013

  Vfx artist

  Rotoscoping, camera tracking, pre-comping, working in a node-based command prompt driven pipeline

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  2k

  Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

  Contract artist

  Character texturing, game icons and images

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  Industrial light & magic

  Sept 2016 - Nov 2016

  Digital paint artist

  Roto/paint work on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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  University of north georgia

  Aug 2017 - now

  • Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts

    Sept 2018 - now

  • Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2018