ELIZABETH M JUNG
ElizMedina5@gmail.com
SAN JOSE, CA 95123 • PHONE (408) 505-6274
OBJECTIVE
I’m a skilled artist with a well-rounded background in digital art that includes direct experience in creating 3D environment assets for virtual simulations. I have direct knowledge of the 3D industry pipeline and its software, as well as experience supporting and aiding a production team.
SKILLS and ABILITIES
- Academic Training: Figure Drawing, Painting, Animation, Concept Design, and 3d Modeling
- Maya: Modeling, Detailed Texture Art, Lighting, Rigging, Shader manipulation, Rendering, UV mapping
- Z-Brush: Sculpting, Painting, Normal Maps export, Z-Spheres
- 3D integration and Creating Hie files: Integrating 3D assets on to maps and creating and editing Hierarchy files for assets databases.
- Adobe Photoshop CS5: Experienced in Photoshop Editing, Manipulation, and Digital Painting (with Wacom and Cintiq tablets)
- Adobe Suit: Proficiency with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere and After Effects
- Metadata management and HTML: Edit and create metadata, reformat, convert for different EBook reading devices, change internal code, and find corruption errors.
- Microsoft Office: Word and Formatting in Word for document file conversion, Excel, PowerPoint
- Udacity Courses: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Unity
- Comprehensive communication and instructional skills.
- Excellent self-management, planning, and organizational skills with 7 years working remotely.
- 7 years experience providing Quality Control and content management
- 8+ years experience providing Customer Service
- Working knowledge of office communication software and applications: Microsoft Suite(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) , Google Applications(i.e. google sheets, docs), Slack, Trello and Zoom
WORK EXPERIENCE
August 2021- August 2022 Apex Systems via Apple 3D Data Imagery Editor
Assisting Project Lead
- Prioritize individual tasks and solve issues affecting workflow efficiency.
- Assisted with training new hires in various job roles.
- Maintained documentation regarding project progress within the team.
- Acted as liaison with Full time manager regarding project deadlines and troubleshooting
General Editor Tasks
- Efficiently identify and correct issues by annotating 3D imagery
- Optimize existing processes in order to meet client’s goals
- Skillfully analyze and remedy deficiencies by making 3D generated data
- Communicate effectively in a team environment in order to increase productivity
- Use comparative analysis to establish conformity throughout projects
- Self QA designed tasks prior to completion
- Ability to be open and receptive to feedback and execute necessary changes in a timely manner
October 2013- Present Freelance Artist Freelancer
- I provide artwork on commission. This has included illustrations and models in digital mediums and portraits in oil and acrylic medium.
March 2019 – August 2021 PeerJ Inc Publishing Operations Assistant
- Assist Senior Staff editors with the management of author manuscripts and requests
- Cross-Team Collaboration with Editorial and Production teams on tracking and content updates through Google Applications
- Timely evaluate manuscripts to ensure they are complete and adhere to company standards and guidelines
- Troubleshooting and fixing various aspects of the peer-review process in contact with Editors and other PeerJ Editorial Staff
- Light copyediting of before publication to ensure compliance with house style
- Communicate status updates with authors and provide customer service for any questions about the Peer review standards and practices at PeerJ.
October 2013- March 2019 Smashwords Inc Vetter/ Illustrator /Translator
- Evaluated a high volume of incoming content to ensure they satisfy the requirements of Smashwords and retailers (Apple, Barnes&Noble, and Kobo). This included reviewing the quality of work, checking for accurate metadata, and adherence to the Smashwords Terms of Service.
- Assisted authors with formatting, minor editing, fixing file corruptions, and other Microsoft Word issues.
- Served as the company’s Illustrator. Created illustrations for company presentations, articles, blogs, ebooks, flyers.
- Served as the company’s Spanish liaison: Communicated with Spanish speaking customers, Spanish quality control, and copywriting company documents.
August 2012–October 2013 Aechelon Technology Inc. Geospecific 3D Modeler
- Created high volumes of 3D models of buildings for military flight simulators using Photoshop and Maya programs.
- Created UV maps, textures, plot lights for polygonal models ranging from 20 tris to 20,000 tris for city environments. All while also having LOD breakdowns in the models.
- Quickly created supportive coding for models to help with 3D integration of assets to maps during hi volume work times.
- Reworked and updated outsourced 3D models before integration to the maps
- Helped train new employees in company protocols and software practices.
June 2017 and 2018 (Seasonal) College4Kids West Valley College 2D/3D Art Teacher
- Taught 2D and 3D art concepts to Middle School Students. The curriculum taught included gesture, proportions, value, painting, printmaking, cultural art, landscape, and art history.
EDUCATION
2012 Bachelors of Fine Art San Jose State University
Major: Illustration/Animation with a double major in English
Minor: Creative Writing
PROFESSIONAL COURSEWORK
- Lucas Distance Learning Program Participant, Participated in video conference critiques by professionals at Lucas Arts
- DreamCrits, Participated in critiques held at DreamWorks Studios
LANGUAGES: Fluent in Spanish as a Native Speaker. Intermediate French speaker.