• Sketched and designed concepts for avatars, banners and icons to be used on several different client's community forums
• Discussed design related issues both with art director and client
• Created and revised art assetts

• Monitored customer forum activity for blatant abuse
• Reported the flow of the community and use activity to help shape community management
• Generated daily metric reports pertaining to page hits, views and other end user use information

• Created basic black and gray box testing procedures for the "Upgrades" section of the development team
• Ensured that the upgraded community software being installed worked with any glaring problems
• Dug into xhtml/css/javascript code when a bug was discovered and performed the initial steps of investigation for the developers
• Documented bug behavior in great detail, providing information on what portion of the code was likely causing the trouble, why this portion of code was likely the culprit and on occasion how to go about fixing the issue
• Worked with the Upgrade engineer as well as other departments on upgrade release dates and workflow
• Acted as the final checkpoint of quality assurance before an upgrade was made public

• Wrote preview articles and various event coverage
• Researched the history of the video game series, developers and publishers of the titles I was covering
• Analyzed the titles I was assigned for information that was deemed relevant to potential fans of the series, based off of previous research
• Wrote, revised and initial top edited all of my articles
• Contacted and maintained relationships with press represenatives of said companies well after articles were published

• Wrote and constantly tweaked design document
• Managed and deligated work with a small team of artists, in coordination with the art lead
• Worked with the art lead on character, environment and UI design
• Twisted arms to deliver on milestones

• Wrote several review, preview, feature and game guide articles
• Analyzed gameplay, level design and exploits in a short amount of time
• Analyzed and critiqued commercial products
• Created and maintained relationships with PR departments of several video game related companies

• Delegated Preview and Review article work to the editorial team
• Wrote, top edited and approved video game side articles for publication
• Created and maintained publishing deadline for articles
• Created and maintained relationships with PR departments of several video game related companies

• Created and maintained relationships with developers
• Advised management on a plan of action for publishing Linux versions of popular PC games

• Maintained the main games section of ftp DOT cdrom DOT com
• Acted as liaison between game companies and Walnut Creek CDROM
• Produced commercial shareware CDROM game products

• Tested and reported bugs related to Q.O.O.L.E (Quake Object Oriented Level Editor)
• Helped produce tutorial section of the commercial CD product

After the big industry restructuring of the early 2000’s I decided to give art and design a shot. So I went to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and earned my Bachelors. While there I concentrated solely on low-polygon modeling/texturing and real-time art asset creation. I find creating good looking art under the constraints of video game production exciting, challenging and rewarding. When finances turn back around, I’m contemplating returning part-time to slowly chip away at a second illustration-related degree.

On my off time I hit the flea markets looking to increase my ever growing classic video game library, work on restoring pinball and arcade machines in the garage, play in a weekly pinball league, drive an hour to San Jose on Fridays to play Street Fighter with tournament grade players, moderate the Street Fighter IV/Super Street Fighter IV boards on Shoryuken, sketch with my trusty ballpoint pen, smoke cigars, drink beers, pet my animals, lounge around and hang out with my wife Cathy.

As for why "DrunkenTemple". It was my way, a long long time ago, of paying homage to the old movies that played on kung fu theater in the bay area (KTSF). It sort of stuck with me ever since (I swear it isn't because I am a lush). If you were born in the late 70's or early 80's in the bay area, you know whats up...