PROSITION

Senior Lighting Artist

DURATION AT STUDIO

2015 – 2018

GENRE

Adventure | Racing

Shooter | Open World

PLATFORM

PC | PS4 | XBOX ONE

Main Game Title

Mafia III

DLCs

Mafia III: Family Kick-Back Mafia III: Faster, Baby!

Mafia III: Stones Unturned Mafia III: Sign of the Times

• Contributed to creative vision and artistic leadership for various high-tech consumer products, liaising with domestic and global teams. Collaborated with art directors, artists, designers, and engineers in conceptualizing, developing, and implementing technical creative projects. Facilitated team management, guiding five staff and contracted external talent resources, and linking business goals with aesthetic project delivery. Coordinated workflows, provided constructive feedback, and maintained project momentum and communication with other internal and external art teams. Applied advanced expertise in interactive rendering, light-material interaction, and PBR workflows to produce technically optimized, visually striking results. Contributed to lighting pipeline development and helped establish team-wide standards and best practices that shaped how the studio approached lighting at scale. Dual-role contributor managing both production operations and creative output across multiple simultaneous domestic and international projects. Built repeatable workflows, communication standards, and tracking systems that scaled delivery without sacrificing consistency.

• Noted Achievements
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• • Flawlessly developed compelling concepts, ensuring high-quality output and scaling multiple projects.
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• • Applied skills in project management, visual design, professional communication, and artistic strategy, uniquely blending creative acumen with business sensibility.
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• • Elevated employee engagement and team effectiveness while boosting morale and project delivery through continuous improvement and innovation.
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• • Designed the open-world time of day scenarios for morning, afternoon, evening, and night.
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• • Worked with IT to fix lighting issues throughout gameplay within the open world, thereby creating a believable atmosphere within the game.
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• • Worked on all franchise levels, including the main game and all 3 DLCs

Software Used:

In-house Engine | Jira | Confluence | Miro | Microsoft Suit | Excel | Word | Photoshop | Slack

Websites:

https://mafiagame.com/mafia-3/

https://hangar13games.com/