Experience

• Aug 2025 – Aug 2026
  Multimedia Designer

  CAT Fans

  Full-time · City of Industry, California

  • Created promotional lifestyle and educational media for Amazon, including unboxing and feature videos, photos and 3D animations.
  • Collaborated on reformatting product packaging designs and user manuals with new languages for international markets. Cut the time to produce a user manual in a new translation from about 2 hours to 10 minutes by automating the reformatting that different character counts require.
  • Developed new product lineup concepts and designs for final engineering. Cut the time to produce line-art designs for new products, while raising their quality, by switching from hand-drawing multiple perspectives in Illustrator to rendering SVG line art from my own 3D models with Blender’s Freestyle, in any perspective.
• May 2025 – Aug 2025
  Intern Lighting & FX Artist

  Animation Libation Studios, LLC

  Internship · Los Angeles, California · Remote

  • Rebuilt and optimized temp lighting setups in Unreal Engine 5 across two scenes for an unreleased video game and television combo series, improving mood consistency and render performance.
  • Engineered dynamic practical light sources and atmospheric effects with UE5’s Blueprint system, adding reactive environmental storytelling without manual per-shot lighting passes.
  • Gained hands-on production experience with real-time lighting workflows in a hybrid game/TV pipeline, a nontraditional format where lighting serves both cinematic and interactive needs.
• Feb 2025 – May 2025
  3D Rigger

  USC Games

  Part-time · Los Angeles, California

  • Shipped Smoke Break! on Steam and Epic Games in May 2025.
  • Created 3D rigs for the interactive machines throughout the game in Maya, imported into Unity.
  • Used concept art and guidance from animators to deliver custom rigs that enabled a more stylized animation workflow with squash-and-stretch deformations.
• Feb 2024 – Apr 2025
  Active Transportation Committee Member

  City of Fullerton

  Part-time · Fullerton, California · Hybrid

  • Collaborated with committee members and city staff to design transportation infrastructure projects.
  • Functioned as liaison between the government and constituents through publicly held meetings.
• May 2023 – Jun 2023
  Graphic Design Intern

  Aalborg Kommune

  Internship · Aalborg, Denmark

  • Developed accessible digital graphic design guidelines for the Aalborg Municipality in Denmark, to make online services more accessible for people with disabilities.
  • Selected to present research to Denmark’s Agency for Digital Government.
• Jan 2019 – Aug 2022
  Waiter

  Cinépolis Cinemas USA

  Part-time · Carlsbad, California

  • Took guest orders for theater food and beverages.
  • Performed closing procedures for the kitchen and theaters.
• Oct 2018 – Oct 2019
  Web Design Intern

  E-rehab.com

  Part-time · Carlsbad, California

  • Collaborated with the team to design social media banners and profile icons.
  • Managed and organized client data in a local database.
• Sep 2018 – Aug 2019
  Ride Operator

  Merlin Entertainments

  Part-time · Carlsbad, California

  • Operated theme park rides following safety procedures.
  • Presented welcoming and friendly guest service.

Education

• BFA, Computer Animation & Game Art

  California State University, Fullerton

  Game Art, Animation & Immersive Media · Magna Cum Laude

Awards