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Interactive Media Designer, Entrepreneur, Technical Artist, Gamer, Coffee Lover, Skater - "I know who knows what I don't"
Departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia

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Jobs verified_user 29% verified
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    Chief Technology Officer and Business Partner verified_user Verified experience
    Augmented Island Studios, LLC
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2022 (3 years 10 months)
    - Creative and Technical Director for multiple Augmented Reality projects with recognized brands and celebrities as clients like Pepsi, Logitech, Microsoft, and Terry Crews. - Product Designer - Project Manager - 3D Artist - Unity Developer
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    Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Director
    The Game Gang Studios
    Mar 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 10 months)
    - Crea Digital 2016 Grant winner in the category of Video Game Co-production
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    Games Developer
    TN3 Studios
    Jul 2013 - Mar 2015 (1 year 9 months)
    - World Games 2013 Sports games design and development using Microsoft Kinect
  • Universidad San Buenaventura de Cali
    Universidad Icesi
    Universidad Autónoma de Occidente UAO
    University part time professor and thesis tutor verified_user Verified experience
    Universidad San Buenaventura de Cali, Universidad Icesi, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente UAO
    Jan 2013 - Jul 2020 (7 years 7 months)
    - 3D modeling and animation teacher - Game design and development teacher - Unity and C# programming teacher - AR, VR, Kinect, LEAP Motion research projects and thesis tutor I worked in three of the most prestigious private universities in the region, mainly as a professor and research collaborator or thesis tutor in the undergraduate careers of Interactive Media Design and Multimedia Engineering. During my time as a professor, I was responsible for various classes ranging from the areas of art as 3D modeling and animation to more conceptual and technical such as Video game design and development. As a tutor, I was also responsible for working and guiding students in the ideation and development of digital prototypes for their thesis di
  • Flamin'Lab
    3D Artist, Games Developer
    Flamin'Lab
    Feb 2012 - Mar 2013 (1 year 2 months)
  • OWAK
    Igloo Lab
    Cacumen Video & Post
    Freelance Interaction designer, Unity developer, 3D artist, Technology consulting.
    OWAK, Igloo Lab, Cacumen Video & Post, MAMBO Studio, Freelancer
    Oct 2011 - Current (13 years 8 months)
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    Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Director
    Utopic Games, SAS
    Jun 2010 - May 2012 (2 years)
Education verified_user 100% verified
  • Universidad Icesi
    Interactive Media Design verified_user Verified experience
    Universidad Icesi
    Jan 2006 - Aug 2011 (5 years 8 months)
Projects verified_user 15% verified
  • Gore-Tex
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    Gore-Tex WebAR experience
    Gore-Tex, Augmented Island Studios, LLC, Bolt Marketing
    May 2022 - Jun 2022 (2 months)
    - Technical director - Product Designer - 2D and 3D Animation - UX Designer - UI Implementation - C# scripting - Unity development - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - Unity profiling and asset optimization - Sound design and music direction - QA supervisor - WebAR deployment
  • Logitech
    Microsoft Teams
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    Logitech / Microsoft WebAR Experience verified_user Verified experience
    Logitech, Microsoft Teams, Augmented Island Studios, LLC
    Mar 2022 - Jul 2022 (5 months)
    - Technical director - Product Designer - UX Designer - 2D and 3D Animation - UI Implementation - Sound designer and music director - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - C# scripting - Unity profiling and asset optimization - QA supervisor - WebAR Deployment
  • College of William & Mary
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    College of William & Mary AR conservation mural
    College of William & Mary, Augmented Island Studios, LLC
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 (4 months)
    - Mentoring students on new technologies and AR - Interaction design - Art direction - Asset integration and optimization - Unity development - Technical Artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - Zappar - Unity integration - WebAR deployment We had the honor to participate in the creation of an Augmented Reality mural designed and painted by William & Mary undergraduate students, under the direction of the Institute for Integrative Conservation (IIC).
  • Pizza Hut
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    Score with Pogba - Pepsi / Pizza Hut WebAR game
    Pizza Hut, Augmented Island Studios, LLC, Tool of North America, PepsiCo, Inc
    Jan 2022 - Mar 2022 (3 months)
    - 3D Character design supervisor - Rigging - Animation - Rendering - Character WebAR implementation
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    Surf Prescriptions AR surfboards shop verified_user Verified experience
    Augmented Island Studios, LLC, Surf Prescriptions
    Nov 2020 - Jan 2021 (3 months)
    - Technical director - Product Designer - WebAR Deployment We created a WebAR shop for Surf Prescriptions by Jeff ‘Doc’ Lausch, a global surfboard design and shaping company based in Huntington Beach, California.
  • Conservation International
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    Conservation International Hawaii AR Invasive species strategy
    Conservation International, Augmented Island Studios, LLC
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2020 (3 months)
    - Technical director - Interaction designer - WebAR deployment We created a campaign to warn about an invasive fish species in Hawaii. We used Augmented Reality infographics and an Instagram (Meta) face filter mini game to promote consuming the fish.
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    Terry Crew's AR Game: Come Find Me Around The World
    Augmented Island Studios, LLC, Terry Crews
    Feb 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year 10 months)
    - Technical director - Game designer - Characters rigging - Animation - Sound design and music direction - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - Unity profiling and asset optimization - Deployment and App Store's manager
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    AR cement vs plastic pipe engineer training program
    Augmented Island Studios, LLC, TCPA Texas Concrete Pipe Association, AmeriTex Pipe and Products
    Apr 2019 - Sep 2019 (6 months)
    - Technical director - Product Designer - 3D Modeling - 3D Animator - UX Designer - UI Implementation - Technical Artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - Unity profiling and asset optimization - Deployment and App store's management AmeriTex and TCPA wanted to create an application that would serve as an interactive and educational training tool for their engineers, trade partners, and other stakeholders. Through a collaborative process with the AmeriTex engineers and product professionals, we developed a thorough and informative augmented reality experience that is now being used by all members of the Texas Concrete Pipe Association, and is a first in the concrete pipe industry. Through voice-overs, animations, and prompts, users are gui
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    The Journey - AR mural in Columbus, Ohio
    Augmented Island Studios, LLC, Short North Alliance
    Apr 2019 - Oct 2019 (7 months)
    - Technical Director - 3D Modeling - 3D Animator - C# scripting - QA supervisor - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - Deployment and App store's management
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    MUVE AR Bottles
    Augmented Island Studios, LLC, MUVE
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2018 (3 months)
    - Technical Director - Product Designer - UX Designer - 3D Modeling - 2D and 3D Animation - UI Implementation - Sound Design - C# and Unity development - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - Deployment and App store's management MUVE bottles, an ecologically responsible company from the UK and Australia, wanted us to create a solution that would help them convert their reusable water bottles into a product that offered a remarkable educational and interactive experience. We developed an iOS and Android app that made their bottles come to life. Upon launching the app, users were able to play four different interactive games while learning about our planet’s ecological challenges. The four different augmented reality environmen
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    Terry Crew's AR Book: Come Find Me
    Augmented Island Studios, LLC, Terry Crews
    Jun 2018 - Oct 2018 (5 months)
    - 3D characters modeling preparation - Characters rigging and animation - 3D asset preparation in Unity - C# scripting assistance - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev
  • Lua Books
    Interactive and Augmented Reality children's books
    Lua Books
    Jan 2018 - Sep 2018 (9 months)
    - I developed, animated and implemented all the assets for the apps, including App Store's deployment and maintenance - Asset optimization - UI implementation - 2D animation - AR development - QA - Deployment
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    Aruna's Reverie - Crea Digital game
    The Game Gang Studios
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2016 (4 months)
    - Game designer - Technical director - 3D Modeling - Rigging - 3D Animator - Sound designer and music director - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - C# scripting and Unity development - QA supervisor - Unity profiling and asset optimization - Deployment
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    World Games 2013 - Kinect Sports games
    TN3 Studios
    Jul 2013 - Oct 2013 (4 months)
    - 3D Modeling - Rigging - 3D Animator - C# scripting - Technical artist: VFX, Shaders, Lighting, LookDev - Unity profiling and asset optimization
Awards verified_user 20% verified
  • College of William & Mary
    William & Mary’s Institute for Integrative Conservation AR Mural
    College of William & Mary
    Mar 2022
    - Project direction, AR and Unity developer Artistic mural commissioned by the IIC in the University of William & Mary. We used WebAR to communicate the importance of flora and fauna of the region and urge the user for its protection.
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    CODAworx 2020 - Landscape category verified_user Verified experience
    CODAworx
    Jul 2020
  • Unity Technologies
    Unity Certified Developer
    Unity Technologies
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years 1 month)
  • Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de Colombia (MinTIC)
    MinTIC Crea Digital 2016
    Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de Colombia (MinTIC)
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2016 (4 months)
  • Banco interamericano de desarrollo BID
    Cámara de Comercio de Cali
    Ministerio de Cultura Colombia
    Proyecto Industrias Culturales de Cali
    Banco interamericano de desarrollo BID, Cámara de Comercio de Cali, Ministerio de Cultura Colombia
    Dec 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 1 month)