Kevin Paskowski
San Francisco, CA 94117
707.815.5791
kpaskow@gmail.com
www.paskowski.com
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Objective:
To apply my artistic, creative, and technical abilities in a production environment at a video game or animation studio.
Education:
MFA Animation and VFX, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA 2005-2008
Modeling Thesis Directed Study with David Tanaka, Pixar, Emeryville, CA Fall 2006
BFA Digital Arts, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 2000-2004
Employment:
2D/3D Artist - YoVille, Zynga, San Francisco, CA Jan 2010 - Present
- Create 2D and 3D assets for the Social Game YoVille
- Process outsourced art - Flash CS4, make sure it matches YoVille style - Photoshop CS4 and Maya 2010
- Make sure outsourced art meets YoVille standards to be put in game
- Help keep track of approved outsourced art work in our pipeline once it comes in house
- Enter created and approved outsourced art assets into YoVille database
- Track all assets I enter into database for quick reference for art team and asset integrators
- Animate assigned assets approved for animation
- Take part in art brainstorming sessions
Asset Integrator - Roller Coaster Kingdom, Zynga, San Francisco, CA Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
- Bridged the gap between the art and dev teams
- Tracked all art assets from development to production
- Enter each item/asset into the Roller Coaster Kingdom database
- Linked art and game information to assets through database
- Made sure assets were organized correctly in the database
- Helped tune prices for assets going into Roller Coaster Kingdom
Tech Team, Hyphen Magazine, San Francisco, CA July 2009 - Dec 2009
- Volunteering to help out with online side of Hyphen Magazine
- Helped with Facebook connect functionality, and some website layout and design
Jobvite - Web Application Support Engineer, San Francisco, CA Sept. 2008 - March 2009
- Code, test and configure career sites during and post activation
- Provide expert knowledge of our career site application to the customer
- Advise customers on best practices for career site design and maintenance
- Manage projects to meet service levels and conduct regularly scheduled customer meetings
- Utilize information from customer interactions to contribute to feature design
- Identify, confirm and report potential bugs
- Provide technical support for customers and document issues using case format in our CRM system
- Develop technical solutions to be posted to both internal and external knowledge base
- Act as a liaison between our Product Management and Engineering teams
Skills:
- AutoDesk Maya 2010
- Alias|Wavefront Maya 7.0.1
- Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
- Adobe After Effects CS4
- Adobe Photoshop CS4
- XHTML and CSS
Student Activities:
- Academy of Art University Baseball Team, Position: LF/CF, Utility Infielder, 8/2007-6/2008
