Experience

• Lead Technical Artist at People Can Fly

  Montreal, CA

  August 2024 - Present

• Unreal Authorized Instructor partner for Epic Games at Epic Games

  Montreal, CA

  March 2023 - Present

  • Unreal community leader in Montreal in partnership with Epic Games.
  
  • Founder of online Unreal Engine community “Dimo Tech Lab“
  
  • Develop and deploy free online and offline training courses for Unreal Engine.
  
  • Hold free accessible on-site seminars and workshops or online webinars.
  
  • Consultation on technical aspects and troubleshooting for Unreal Engine community.
  
  • Promote and deep dive into new features of Unreal Engine in conferences, seminars, and workshops.

  - Dimo Tech Lab" the Discord UE Community Server
  
  https://discord.gg/MPfbWaSgPt

  - Community UE Leader in Montreal, Canada
  
  https://communities.unrealengine.com/montreal/
  

• Senior Technical Artist at Moment Factory

  Montreal, CA

  February 2023 - June 2024

  • Develop and deploy pipeline and workflow in real-time content creation for Unreal Engine across the studio and departments.
  
  • Real-time content creation Unreal Engine in Modeling, Look Development, Animation, Motion Capture, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing, Performance Profiling, Optimization, and Debugging.
  
  • Develop tools, scripts, and tooling libraries in Blueprint, Complex PBR Materials, and VFX Niagara systems including procedural toolsets.
  
  • Lead artists' team in projects and technical support for resolving unforeseen technical issues and contributing in research and development.
  
  • Evaluation and consultation within departments for studio projects and technical decisions.
  
  • Create training courses and workshops for the team to upscale and maintain the skillset in the Unreal Engine pipeline.

• Senior Technical Artist at Streamline Studios

  Kuala Lumpur, MY

  June 2023 - January 2023

  • Defining the technical quality standards and overseeing the development and advancement of art pipelines.
  
  • Lead and work with other Technical and VFX artists to help improve the studio pipeline.
  
  • Experience in profiling and optimization for platforms such as Nintendo and Playstation SDK.
  
  • Contributiion to developing artistic techniques and processes to define and achieve a product's visual style and encourage artistic and technical evolution within the studio.
  
  • Creating tools and processes that assist in authoring art, VFX, destruction simulations, animation, shading, lighting, and post-process effects.
  
  • Creating and maintaining technical documentation and training materials and programs.
  
  • Assisting in the technical evaluation of current and new incoming projects and potential future hires.

• Unreal Engine Trainer at Streamline Studios

  Kuala Lumpur, MY

  October 2021 - January 2023

  • Create educational programs and modules.
  
  • Conduct various online classes and sessions.
  
  • Train the company's staff in Unreal Engine in multiple disciplines in one-to-one, group sessions live, and pre-recorded sessions.
  
  • Guide and problem-solving sessions.

• Level Artist at Streamline Studios

  Kuala Lumpur, MY

  October 2021 - July 2022

  • Cooperating with the Art Director and Art Leads to maintain artistic consistency and vision for the game while building stellar levels and scenes according to project needs.
  
  • Shading, Lighting, PBR material creation and creating strong environment storytelling with set dressing.
  
  • Ensure levels are profiled and optimized to adhere to performance targets where needed.
  
  • Profiling performance and test gameplay elements of a completed level and troubleshooting issues.

• Unreal Engine Generalist, 3D Generalist, and Senior Media Producer at Centre for Content Creation

  Kuala Lumpur, MY

  January 2017 - August 2021

  3D Generalist Duties:
  
  • Create environment assets and prepare from 3Ds Max into the Unreal engine workflow pipeline.
  
  • Prepare the asset's looks and create the textures in Photoshop, Substance Painter, and Quixel Mixer.
  
  • Research, design, and create landscape and terrain in World Creator based on the project‘s concept and reference.
  
  • Study, design, and create specific trees based on the project‘s concept and biome in SpeedTree.
  
  • Optimize the animation assets in 3ds Max for Unreal Engine.

  Unreal Engine Generalist Duties:
  
  • Assemble, design, and set up the environment based on assets imported.
  
  • Responsible for creating master shaders, material instances, and textures for the geometry imported.
  
  • Composite the look and lighting setup of the environment and scene.
  
  • Import, set up, and retarget the animation assets for characters and other animation-related assets.
  
  • Create Blueprints for various gameplay and asset functionalities.
  
  • VFX Creation for the environment based on Cascade Particle and Niagara systems.
  
  • Cinematography and sequence setups for the cinematic cutscenes and trailers.
  
  • Responsible for rendering outputs, render passes, and color management of the final frames and images.
  
  • Work with the art director and the team on project progression and development.
  
  • Implement Virtual Reality (VR) techniques on the project and create scenes and environments.

  Senior Media Producer Duties:
  
  • Produce various media in video and audio formats in advertisement and entertainment for local and international brands and broadcast in Radios and Cinemas.
  
  • Implement and create frames including sound design, ADR & editing for the trans-media, and working closely with the media team to develop the projects in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effect, and DaVinci Resolve.
  
  • Supervise the recording sessions for live musical instruments, vocals, voice-overs, and sound effects in the studio.