Experience

• Lead Environment Artist at Couch Heroes

  Remote, GR

  May 2025 - Present

  • Built and formalized the environmental art style guide, aligning assets, terrain, vegetation, and biome identity into a cohesive world vision.
  
  • Lead world-building direction for a stylized MMO, defining environment pipelines, asset standards, and scalable production workflows.
  
  • Translate design blockouts into fully realized environments while preserving gameplay flow, readability, and core player traversal intent.
  
  • Establish and refine Nanite, Virtual Texture, and World Partition workflows to support large-scale open-world development.
  
  • Drive environmental storytelling through composition, value separation, material clarity, and close collaboration with lighting.
  
  • Mentor and task environment artists with clear benchmarks and quality targets, fostering independent ownership and high production standards.
  
  • Partner with Design, Tech Art, Lighting, and Production to align environment execution with gameplay systems and milestone goals.
  
  • Identify and resolve pipeline bottlenecks, improving production efficiency while maintaining a cohesive visual direction.
  

• Founder & CEO at XMD, LLC

  January 2010 - Present

  • Founded XMD in 2010 to become a world leader in ZBrush assets, plug-ins and courses.
  
  • Led the development and conceptualization of the innovative XMD ToolBox Plug-in for Zbrush that has received over 100,000 downloads.
  
  • All XMD Assets have a 5-star rating for quality and design.
  
  • Developed a platform for sharing ZBrush assets on XMDSource.com with over 1 million downloads.
  
  • Monitor and respond to customer feedback to ensure all products release successfully.
  
  • Manage all aspects of the company to increase sales by over 80% yearly.
  
  • Developed curriculums for 5 successful live online courses.
  

• Project Art Director (New World) at Lost Boys Interactive

  US

  March 2022 - December 2024

  • Led the artistic vision for two major game expansions, ensuring on-time delivery and high visual fidelity.
  
  • Spearheaded the development of two expansive zones, overseeing concept, animation, character/creature design, weapons, environments, and VFX.
  
  • Managed a team of 57 artists and 6 leads, fostering a collaborative environment that increased productivity by 20%.
  
  • Optimized pipeline workflows, reducing asset production time by 30% while maintaining AAA-quality standards.
  
  • Facilitated seamless integration of new hires, improving onboarding efficiency and team retention rates.
  

• Lead Environment Artist at Lost Boys Interactive

  October 2021 - March 2021

  • Led the environment art team for New World, fostering a robust and effective team dynamic.
  
  • Developed high-quality environmental assets and actively contributed to level design.
  
  • Established a foundational team dynamic that sustained throughout the life of the project.
  

• Senior Environment Artist at Volition

  August 2020 - Present

• Senior 3D Environment Artist at Wevr

  September 2019 - April 2020

  • Specialized in modeling/texturing architecture and vehicles.
  
  • Unreal Shader setup and model implementation.
  
  • PBR ORM texture creation.
  
  • Fast iterative Gray-boxing.
  
  • Optimization of Models for use in VR.
  
  • Large Terrain Implementation.
  
  • Very strong time management skills to achieve deadlines and stay on track.
  
  • Established a great rapport with the Art Lead to help strategize and organize assets for a better project flow.
  

• Senior 3D Environment/Prop Artist at XSolla

  March 2020 - May 2020

  • Created assets/props for use in the Unreal Engine.
  
  • PBR ORM texture creation.
  
  • Gray-Boxed environments for level design and player flow.
  
  • Optimized shaders and models for use in a networked environment.
  
  • Quick model generation for a short deadline.
  

• Lead 3D Artist at Meggitt

  Suwanee

  November 2006 - February 2019

  • Working in a team-oriented environment to design and develop terrains/environments from start to finish for military simulation.
  
  • Art Lead of a 320-million-dollar contract project with the US Army.
  
  • Strongly self-motivated to stay ahead, set personal deadlines, and go above and beyond what is asked.
  
  • Unreal Engine Level Design and Prototyping
  
  • VR Development
  
  --- Oculus
  
  --- Magic Leap
  
  --- Mobile Development
  
  • CryEngine 3 Level Design and Modeling
  
  • CryEngine 3 AI Scripting / Flowgraph
  
  • Proposal Videos using CryEngine 3
  
  • Terrain Modeling and Texturing
  
  • Architectural Modeling and Texturing
  
  • Vehicle and Prop Modeling and Texturing
  
  • Logo / Label Design
  
  • Marketing Concepts and Rendering
  
  • Prototype Design for Manufacturing
  
  • Hi-res modeling for Normal Mapping

  • Released Products / Terrains:
  
  --- Lead of the EST II Army Contract
  
  --- Lead of the ISMT Marine Contract
  
  --- Pristina 2010 – Lead
  
  --- COTS 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 (Database of Models and Terrains)
  
  --- Singapore ITTC Trainer
  
  --- Fans Hill, Scotland
  
  --- Singleton, Australia
  
  --- Puckapunyal, Australia
  
  --- Kandahar, Afghanistan
  

• 3D Artist at Rapid Reality

  Marietta, United States of America

  January 2005 - October 2006

  • Working with the Kaneva Game Engine, Klaus Entertainment
  
  • Strong team working skills to achieve goals and meet deadlines.
  
  • Environment and Level Design for MMO (The Chronicle)
  
  • Architectural Modeling
  
  • Special Effects Programming
  
  • Texturing and Unwrapping