Education:
1996, M.F.A., Savannah College of Art & Design.
1992, B.A, Louisiana State University Shreveport.
Work Experience:
1996 - current, Professor of Computer Art, Scientific Illustration, Interactive Design and Game Development, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia.
2010 - current, 3D Art Lead, Ascent Games, Savannah, Georgia.
1997 - current, Freelance graphics artist
1998 - 2006, Production Director and Head of Technical Development - the Virtual Historic Savannah Project, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia.
2005 9/29 - 10/2, Paid Consultant, Electronic Arts - Tiburon Division.
1999 - 2001, Head of Game Development, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia. 2005 august, Consultant, Electronic Arts - Tiburon, Orlando, Florida.
1999 summer, Game Design Intern, Dreamworks Interactive, Los Angeles, California.
1996 summer, 3D Animation Intern, EdEFX, Miami, Florida.
1994 - 1996, Tutor, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia.
1992 - 1993, Graphic Designer, Custom Labels, Shreveport, Louisiana.
1990 - 1992, Graphic Design Intern, Southwestern Electrical Power Company, Shreveport, Louisiana.
1989 - 1991, Tutor, Social Services of the State of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana.
1988 - 1991, Printer, Louisiana State University Shreveport.
1988 - 1991, Administrative Photographer, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Exhibition history:
2010, September 9-25, National Cell Phone Photography Exhibition, Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana.
2010, June 5 - July 11, 6x6x2010 Exhibition, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, New York.
2009, November 5-7, 2nd Annual Southeastern Aviation Art Expo, Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, Alabama.
2009, May - October, Scientific Illustration Faculty show, Morris Hall, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia.
Grants, Publications, Awards and Distinctions:
2010, Interior illustration and website illustration, Military Times magazine - Issue 2, London, UK.
2009, cover art model; Tommy Towery, "We were Crewdogs V - We Flew the Heavies", Tommy Towery, 2009.
2009, Digital Art SAAE Aviation Art Award, 2nd Annual Southeastern Aviation Art, Expo, Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, Alabama.
2009, SAAE 3rd Place Award Aviation Art, 2nd Annual Southeastern Aviation Art Expo, Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, Alabama.
2002 - 2004, Savannah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Citation of Excellence to the Virtual Historic Savannah Project.
2002 - 2003, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, Implementation grant for the Virtual Historic Savannah Project.
2000 - 2001, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs, Special Projects Planning grant for the Virtual Historic Savannah Project.
2000 - 2001, Georgia Humanities Council grant for the Virtual Historic Savannah Project. 1998, Softimage 3D - Level 2 Certified Instructor.
Conference Papers:
1999, September 15, Association for History and Computing, London: "Documenting Urban Form and Transformation in 4D: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project," September 15, 1999.
(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/drhahc/ahc/abst230.htm).
1999, July 26 , Syllabus99 conference, Santa Clara, CA: "Using V.R.M.L. - the 3-D Language of the Internet - as a Learning Tool: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project," July 26, 1999.
(http://www.syllabus.com/syll99_proceedings/UTIL.HTM).
1998, October 15, 52nd National Preservation Conference, Savannah (educational session): "Animating the Past: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project," October 22, 1998.
Invited Public Lectures:
2003, November 7, National Humanities Councils Annual Meeting, Savannah.
2003, August 21, Project Demonstration for Georgia House Speaker Terry Coleman and other State Representatives.
2003, February 15, Women's Book Club of Savannah: "Tour of the Virtual Historic Savannah Project."
2002, October 26, American Cultural Resource Association, Savannah: "Virtual Historic Savannah Project" (plenary address).
2001, November 18-19, Historic Williamsburg Presentation of the Virtual Historic Savannah Project. Virginia trip.
2001, October 20 , American Institute of Architects Presentation of the Virtual Historic Savannah. Project, Savannah, Georgia.
2001, April 20, Society of Architectural Historians, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Towards a Non- Linear Exploration of Architectural History.
2000, November 17, Georgia Association of Art Educators, Atlanta, Georgia: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project.
2000, September 8-9, ACM SIGGRAPH Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, courses: Working with Softimage XSI, Animating with Softimage XSI, and Creativity in Game Development.
2000, April 6 , Historic Savannah Foundation, 2000 Lecture Series (New Architecture Old Neighborhoods): Exploring the Evolution of Savannah's Urban Development.
1999, November 20, North Carolina Association of Art Educators, Wilmington, North Carolina: Using New Technology to Explore the Heritage and Legacy of Savannah (keynote address).
1999, March 29, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina: Virtual Savannah: Models of History.
1999, October 14, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts: Representations and Misconceptions of History: The Case of Savannah.
1999, January 8, Savannah College of Art and Design, Architectural History Lecture Series, Savannah: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project.
1998, October 29, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project.
Skills:
Software: 3D Studio Max, Z-Brush, Maya, Softimage, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and Illustrator.
Programming: JAVA, VRML, HTML, CSS, XML, MEL, Perl, Shell scripting, JavaScript, and Apache.
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