Royal Crackers, Season 1 (Adult Swim)
Royal Crackers, Season 2 (Adult Swim)
Cool Cats: The Milk Chug, Season 1
Board Of Directors
Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles
November 2018 - January 2022
Los Angeles County, California, United States
From Fall of 2018 through the beginning of 2022 I served as a board member of The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles in several capacities:
Secretary of the Board,
November 2018 - December 31st 2019
Web Chair,
January 1st 2020 - January 2022
VP, Events and Programs
January 1st 2021 - January 2022
During my time with the organization I worked diligently to further our the philanthropic efforts and pushed for accessibility and community building in the arts.
Some key accomplishments during my tenure:
- Oversaw an organization wide rebranding effort in collaboration with design firm BBbabble that included a new website and media kit.
- Organized regularly occurring community building events in person during from late 2018 through early 2020
- Held and organized several key note conversations and workshops with industry professionals. Through these events we had more than 300 attendees.
- Voted forward and co-signed the organizations opening of an investment portfolio alongside Treasurer Jon Messer.
- Pushed a key initiative to further equity and accessibility by removing online exhibition fees from our contests. This was a critical problem to solve. We found that students and young-professionals would often win awards in our competitions but couldn't afford the cost to exhibit. In identifying this problem we determined as a board that this fee was outdated and we voted a resolution to repeal the policy.
My time with this organization was transformative and beyond educational. It's solidified my desire to serve as an educator and gave me the space to build my confidence and abilities as a community advocate and leader in the arts.
Art Director
Lobster Pot Productions
April 2021 - June 2021
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
GearSquad vs Dr. Boring (Season 1)
- Working with Lobster Pot Productions as the Art Director on an animated streaming series being developed on behalf and in collaboration with Wistia. I worked with the team from the early stages of development and oversaw the hiring of our design and animation teams to execute from concept throuh post production.
Background Designer
Augenblick Studios
February 2021 - May 2021
Teenage Euthanasia, Season 1 (Adult Swim)
Swan Boy, Season 1 (Hulu)
Working with the team at Augenblick Studios as a Background Layout Artist on Season 1 of Teenage Euthanasia, in production for Adult Swim.
Additionally I filled in as a Background Designer for the first season of Swan Boy by Branson Reese
Art Director
ATTN:
October 2019 - October 2020
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · Hybrid
Your Daily Horoscope, Season 1 (Quibi)
In late 2019 I joined ATTN: as the Lead Visual Development Artist for the Your Daily Horoscope pilot. During development I worked with the production team at ATTN: to hire key artists and animators to begin taking the concepts from pitch to production ready. The pilot episodes proved to be succesfful and upon being greenlit by Quibi I was promoted to Art Director to manage the pre-production art teams.
During this time we also made a rapid transition to a remote work pipeline due to the COVID19. Without missing a beat, show leadership and I developed our remote work flow and created a process to manage nearly three dozen artists.
Due to the small size of the series Production team I was also tasked with taking on responsibilities in hiring, interviewing, writing budget proposals and creating production trackers and maintaining a production calendar.
Quibi also presented us with several additional challenges. We had a tremendous volume of work to generate on a day to day basis. We needed to make 60 roughly 2 minute episodes per week. We also needed to create each episode in both a Horizontal and Vertical format.
This production became an absolute testing ground for making quick and effective decisions as a Director and gave us a plethora of opportunities to explore complex problem solving.
Character Designer
Titmouse
July 2020 - September 2020
Burbank, California, United States · On-site
Fairfax, Season 1 (Amazon)
During my time with Titmouse I worked on the final clean up design of several key characters for the Amazon original animated series, Fairfax.
Background Designer
DreamWorks Animation
April 2020 - June 2020
I worked with the development team as a Visual Development artist focusing on Background Design in the early concept stages of an original IP project at DreamWorks TV Animation.
Illustrator
Paradise Creative
January 2020 - February 2020
Greater Los Angeles Area
Lead Character Designer
ATTN:
September 2019 - November 2019
Greater Los Angeles Area
I joined the team at ATTN: to work on a pilot in development for Quibi. During this time I designed a dozen characters based on the Western Zodiac and saw the process through to animation.
Character Designer
Starburns Industries
January 2019 - May 2019
Greater Los Angeles Area
Character Designer for HarmonQuest Season 3
Character Designer
Starburns Industries
November 2018 - December 2018
Character Designer for Galaxy League, a series of animated shorts for the NFL.
Graphic Designer
DreamWorks Animation
August 2016 - November 2017
Glendale, Ca
Painter
Muse Paintbar
June 2014 - August 2016
Manhattan
Media Intern
Frederator Networks, Inc.
January 2016 - June 2016
Manhattan
Multimedia Design Fellow
Huffington Post
June 2015 - December 2015
Manhattan
Supervisor
Carr Haus Cafe
September 2012 - June 2015
Providence, Rhode Island Area
Cafe work, as a supervisor I am responsible for day to day oversight of stock, shipments and general preparation of food and drinks also who deserves free bagels and who doesn't. I consider myself the Robin Hood of Bagels.
