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 pi3danimation.com                                                                       5526 McKnight, Houston, TX 77035
QUALIFICATIONS
  Creative and effective 3D Animator, Artist, and Designer with an extensive background in multiple Adobe and Autodesk design software platforms. Specialize in Autodesk 3D Studio Max software with professional experience working for major companies, including NASA, using this specialty and utilizing all of these skills.

SKILLS
•Expert illustration skills including life drawing, character-object design, and logo design
•Strong communication skills, organizational skills, and people skills
   
• Autodesk 3DS Max
• Adobe After Effects  
• Adobe Flash 		 
    • Autodesk Maya • Adobe Director • Adobe Premiere  
       • Adobe Photoshop    • Adobe Dreamweaver • Sound Forge  
    • Adobe Illustrator      
 
EDUCATION

 
  The Art Institute of Houston, Houston, TX
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Media Arts and Animation  
 
 
WORK EXPERIENCE		    
  Instructor, Introduction to 3D Animation
• Lone Star College
 
Freelance designer:
Summer 2014-Present
 

2001-Present

Project Highlights:
• Designed website banner and logo animation for Voices on the Square Blog:
http://www.voicesonthesquare.com/
• Modeled 3D tires/tire tread designs for the entire Agora Tire Inc. catalog.
• Designed a CD jacket design for Sideshow Tramps, a Houston-based band.
• Designed the startup brand for Security Real Estate which became a lucrative enterprise.

Internship, Fogarty Klein Monroe

Winter 2001, Summer 2006
  
• Photoshop/Quark compositions were praised and used by BMC Software clients for a print ad campaign while working in the Creative Department
• Produced HTML/web animation in the Interactive Department for the company website: http://www.chron.com/news/article/BW-FKM-Summer-Interns-Gone-Wild-Agency-Shakes-1868032.php
 
 
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Played an integral role as a team member of the Art Institute of Houston’s NASA Mars Colonization Project, which received positive press from the Houston Business Journal: http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/02/27/daily6.html

• Added to 246 million in billings in 2006 by helping to implement a youth oriented educational automotive campaign for Advance Auto Parts while interning at Fogarty Klein Monroe.