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experience
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Provo, Utah
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2001 - Present
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Part-time Instructor
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Responsibilities include: Teaching Life Drawing to undergraduate students in the Department of Visual Arts, with emphasis on the structure, proportion, and anatomy of the human figure.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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2001 – Present
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Artist
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Responsibilities include: Developing original concept art, character development, world/environment/level design, 3D models, textures and other artwork for 3D console and PC games.
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American Fork, Utah
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2000 – 2001
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Artist
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Responsibilities included: Developing original concept art, character development, costume design, backgrounds, 3D models, textures, animations, cinematics, cut scene illustrations, and other artwork for GameBoy Advance and 3D platform video games. Hosting Japanese business partners, translating in meetings and correspondence.
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Sandy, Utah
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1998 – Present
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Freelance Illustrator
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Responsibilities include: Providing original traditional art, digital art, graphic design, and art direction for clients such as Novell, Ensign magazine, Liahona magazine, Covenant Communications, Synthesis International, Handcart Ensemble, In the Image Theatre, WinningClues.com, and private collectors.
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New York, New York
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1999
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Administrative Assistant to Tammy Shannon, Artists’ Representative
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Responsibilities included: Negotiating freelance assignments with clients. Preparing and delivering professional artists’ portfolios. Researching freelance markets. Helping to build Shannon Associates’ debut web site.
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education
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Provo, UT |
1999
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Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration
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3.79 GPA. Studied with James C. Christensen, Brett Helquist, Douglas Fryer, Robert T. Barrett, Richard Hull, Ralph Barksdale, Bethanne Anderson, and Bruce H. Smith.
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Tokyo, Japan
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1993
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Participant
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Selected by U.S. Senator Robert Bennett as one of two Utah students to receive a Sony corporate scholarship to participate in a three-week educational program at company headquarters.
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expertise
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• Drawing, painting, and illustration in traditional and digital media.
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• Concept art, character development, and costume design.
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• 2D and 3D computer character animation, cinematics, modeling, textures, lighting and cameras.
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• Fluent in Windows and Macintosh versions of graphics software such as 3D Studio Max, Character Studio, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, ProMotion, and DeBabelizer, and QuarkXPress; office applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Intuit Quicken. Working knowledge of Alias/Wavefront Maya, and multimedia authoring tools including Flash, Director, Premiere, and PowerPoint.
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• Web site design and development, graphic design and photography.
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• Japanese-English interpretation.
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• Writing and editing.
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awards
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• Master Designer, The United States Mint Artistic Infusion Program
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2004
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• First Place, Provo City Freedom Festival Patriotic Art Exhibition
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2000
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• Vera Hinckley Mayhew Visual Art Scholarship
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1999
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• First Place for News Illustration, Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Assoc.
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1998
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• Ezra Taft Benson Presidential Scholarship, Brigham Young University
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1993
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• National Merit Scholarship
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1993
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exhibitions
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• Deseret Morning News Landscape Art Show, Color of the Land
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2004
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• Friends of the Pleasant Grove City Library's annual Quick Draw benefit art auction
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2002-2003
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• National Park Academy of the Arts Arts for the Parks show, Top 200
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2001
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• Provo City First Night invitational exhibit
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2001-2002
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• Personal series, Pictures of Prydain at Brigham Young University
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1999
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• Society of Illustrators Annual Scholarship Competition and publication
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1998
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• New York International Film, Video and Arts Festival
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1998
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• Springville Museum of Art Spiritual and Religious Art Show
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1998
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• BYU Department of Visual Arts Student Exhibition
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1997-1999
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• Sundance Young Contemporaries Exhibition
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1997-1998
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leadership
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Sandy, Utah
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2001-present
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Varsity Scout Coach
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Youth Counselor
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Tacoma, Washington
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1997
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Youth Chaperone
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Los Angeles, California
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1997
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Full-time volunteer Missionary
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Sapporo, Japan
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1994 - 1996
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Responsibilities included: Speaking and teaching in fluent conversational Japanese. Traveling to conduct training activities for over 120 full-time service personnel.
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References available upon request.
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) email ( ) top ( ) biography (
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