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3D character designer and 3D design professional with end-to-end understanding of full production pipelines for real-time and pre-rendered environments. Skilled in PBR metallic-roughness workflows and legacy specular-glossiness workflows, ready to deliver animation-friendly character models, rigs, textures, and layouts for games, movies, animated series, and general 3D projects.
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Work Experience
Freelance 3D Asset Designer / Character Artist (texturing & asset swaps)
October 1, 2024 - PresentCrafted texture swaps (skins) for the popular online game Counter-Strike 2, for consideration by Valve to be added to the game.
Streamer / Community giveaway creator (rigged model)
April 1, 2024 - PresentHosted a community model giveaway during live streams. Streamed the process and delivered a complete custom, fully animation-ready character model to a community member directly.
Data Quality Auditor at Appen
February 29, 2024 - December 31, 2025Quality Lead overseeing team of independent data analysts, providing high quality data for search engine, virtual assistant & emerging technologies.
Responsibilities include:
Dataset Analysis, Client Reporting, Team Management, Quality Metric Review and Auditing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Project Yield clientele includes:
-- Google
-- Microsoft
-- Apple
-- Meta / Facebook / Instagram
-- TikTok
Collaborated with a global, remote team, directed by project management team, on 10+ AI/machine learning-centric, social media, and search engine data research analysis & user metrics / data visualization projects, resulting in marked increases in client content algorithm performance accuracy and safety.
-- PROJECT Aralia --
• Engaged with colleagues while monitoring AI Large Language Model (LLM) generation responses.
• Flagged LLM generated responses for informational accuracy, safety and relevance.
• Identified relevant data sources and sets to mine for client business needs and reports/conducts data visualization for large structured and unstructured datasets and variables.
• Devised and parsed LLM & AI/ML models to mine big-data stores.
• Performed data and error analysis to improve models.
• Cleaned and validated data for uniformity and accuracy.
-- PROJECT Touchet --
• Assessed and classified user and colleague-generated content on major social media platforms, using autonomous judgment to ensure compliance with client platform community guidelines and terms of service.
• Provided valuable user data/metrics insights to improve content recommendation algorithms for Facebook, Instagram Reels and TikTok platforms.
-- PROJECT Whatcom --
• Executed analytical experiments to help solve problems throughout several industries and domains.
• Evaluated search engine results and keyword-query pairs to assess result relevance, contributing to the improvement of user experience across several hundreds of data metrics as requested by project clients.
Data Research Analyst at Appen
February 28, 2024 - October 17, 2025Adapted Google Search, Microsoft Bing, and Meta Instagram services across research teams to drive measurable performance improvements, SEO metrics, and data reports. Led data analysis and A/B testing across projects Yukon, Thames, and Truckee, delivering improvements in search relevance, transit data coverage, and ad targeting.
3D Artist / Character Modeler (Illithid/ Mind Flayer base and outfits)
January 1, 2024 - PresentFollowed the design philosophy of Illithid/Mind Flayer creatures inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. Built an animation-ready base model and outfits for a custom Illithid creature inspired by the fantasy series.
3D Character Artist (high-poly to low-poly baking and rig-ready model)
January 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023Used a high-poly to low-poly normal baking approach to create a detailed, rigged model based on the original Aririal design from Eternity Dev's Voices of the Void.
Independent 3D Character Artist (VR/Camera-tracking avatar)
October 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022Created a full 3D pipeline character avatar inspired by Nintendo's Splatoon series, tailored to real-life body measurements. Included multiple outfit toggles and props for use in VR and camera tracking.
3D Design Artist at Freelancer
July 30, 2021 - PresentBeyond my technical expertise, I am also a dedicated 3D modeling freelancer/hobbyist specializing in character design, modeling, sculpting, retopology, texturing, and rigging & animation for digital media and game assets.
I bring a unique understanding of both technical pipelines and creative design, blending precision with artistry. My work spans:
• 3D character creation (modeling, texturing, rigging, animation prep)
• Texturing workflows for realism or stylized aesthetics (Substance, Blender, hand-painted workflows)
• Asset optimization for games and interactive media
• Independent concept-to-execution projects, including original IP designs and fan-based works
Education
High School Diploma at East Rowan High School
August 29, 2011 - June 10, 2015Qualifications
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Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Government, Gaming
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