Fifteen years across games, fashion and advertising. Currently: leading a studio's move toward AI-assisted production — while keeping the bar high.
My job is to make good art repeatable — building the teams, standards and pipelines that let a small group ship at the scale of a much larger one.
Set the art direction and the systems behind it — pillars, style guides and art bibles that keep a whole team, and every vendor, on the same page.
Hire, mentor and grow multidisciplinary teams of internal artists and outsource vendors — turning contributors into leads and specialists.
Introduce AI where it accelerates production — model training, generation, upscaling — with tighter input standards, while creative direction stays human.
Architect the workflows that sustain a live cadence — proxy pipelines, asset standards and clean hand-offs that let quality scale without burning the team out.
Five projects where the outcome came from the system as much as the pixels.
Joined an early prototype and art directed it into a game players want to play — thousands of assets in about three months, almost entirely AI-generated under my direction, with a new art style, a pipeline built from scratch and liveops events scheduled through February.
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A full visual reboot of a merge + tower-defense game — new art bible, scalable AI-assisted pipeline. Global launch shipped on a sustained 2-hero-per-month cadence.
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Created the artistic vision for a new cross-platform (PC + mobile) game. Defined company-wide processes, systems and pipelines, and built + led a small in-house team of 2D and 3D game artists from the ground up.
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Eight years on Two Dots — started as Technical Artist & sole Animator (implementing every mechanic, saga map, UI, feature and VFX in Unity), then built the in-house art team from scratch and grew into the Art Director role. Directed world-class guest illustrators, designed 200+ medallions, and created Scavenger Hunt — the Easter-egg feature that shipped 24 animated maps a year. Contributed to 3×+ revenue growth.
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Luxury retail concepting on a three-person team — glorifying products through props, art and staging, then modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering the proposals in 3D. Followed each idea through production.
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A personal painting practice — loose, warm and made by hand, away from the screen.
An ongoing character series on love, friendship, family and the small relationships in between.
I'm an art director with 15+ years across games, fashion and advertising. I love to build, lead and support teams of top-tier artists and animators — and I'm at my best turning ambitious visual ideas into systems a team can actually ship. Right now, I lead a hybrid team of 25+ artists at Fortis Games, operating at Head-of-Art scope.
I care as much about how the work gets made as how it looks: the pipeline, the standards, the way a team grows. Lately that's meant leading a studio's move toward AI-assisted production — thoughtfully, and with the craft kept human.
I bring a sunny, optimistic energy to it all. Outside of work you'll find me sailing on the Hudson, singing at jam sessions, or baking a proper lasagna verde.
I'm always happy to talk art leadership, pipelines, and building teams that ship.
Here’s what I like to do in my down time: part-time pirate on the Hudson. Less wifi, more wind.
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