PATRICK’S RÉSUMÉ

I’ve been a:

Art Director | Team Leader | Creative Systems Manager | Artist

My pattern is to:

Be Curious | Explore | Learn | Implement | Share

I thrive as a:

Creator | Coach | Builder

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Art Director and multidisciplinary game-development leader with 12+ years in casino game development, combining hands-on craft with team leadership, Unity adoption, workflow design and emerging AI. A Creator, Coach and Builder who improves games, develops people and builds better ways for creative teams to work. Led through startup growth, acquisitions, engine transitions and organizational change while staying close to the craft.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EXPERIENCE

INTUICODE GAMING → EVERI HOLDINGS → IGT

Continuous career progression through acquisition and merger | Jan 2019 – Jul 2026

Selected Work: Battleship (Hasbro Licensed IP); Dynamite Pop Diamond; Smokin’ Hot Stuff: Money Bomb; Jackpot Express; Player Classic Illinois (13 Title Multigame); Zhao Cai Jin Mao (Golden Cat)

ART DIRECTOR | IGT

Jul 2025 – Jul 2026 | Austin, TX

Studio Leadership and Integration – Served on the studio’s core stakeholder group, led art direction for Austin video teams, managed 7 direct and 10 indirect reports, and helped integrate three teams into a ~100-person studio with shared processes, documentation, onboarding and culture.
AI Workflow Maturation – Refined earlier AI experiments into the “Start with Art” methodology, keeping artists in control while accelerating exploration and preproduction within quality, reproducibility, authorship and legal constraints..
Merger Integration – Served as an Art and creative-operations SME during the Everi-IGT integration, comparing roles, tools and workflows across Unity, Technical Art, asset and font management, cabinet technologies and AI.

ART DIRECTOR | EVERI HOLDINGS

May 2022 – Jun 2025 | Austin, TX

Art Direction and Scale – Directed two game-art teams across original and licensed IP, premium, HHR, VLT/multigame, porting and Class III work; at peak led 10 direct reports and 20 total contributors, including up to four Art Leads.
Unity for Artists – Spearheaded art-side Unity adoption, helping define workflows and the Technical Artist role while building a 10-part “Unity for Artists” curriculum, training tasks, troubleshooting resources and peer-led workshops used across studios.
AI Workflow Development – Explored and tested emerging AI tools across game ideation and preproduction, developing practical methods for incorporating them into established artist workflows while evaluating quality, reproducibility and production usefulness.
Preproduction – Built a repeatable art preproduction process from theme exploration and bluelines through value and color studies, storyboards, approvals and Jira-ready backlogs, giving Art, Game Design and Production a clearer shared path into development and surfacing direction changes earlier.
Visual Quality – Raised visual quality across two studios, stepping into in-flight titles that needed stronger art direction and guiding visual resets, theme authenticity, readability, animation and VFX, and final polish.
People Development – Coached first-time and veteran leads, artists and Technical Artists through stretch assignments, candid feedback, increasing ownership, training and mentorship; supported promotions and strengthened the studio leadership bench.
Game Ideas – Created a Teams and Lists platform that opened game pitching and voting to any discipline; top concepts advanced to a multi-studio showcase, with several later entering game development.
Intuicode Integration – Helped lead the former Intuicode team’s integration into Everi, building a living onboarding and wiki resource covering tools, workflows, repositories, software and key organizational knowledge.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR | INTUICODE GAMING CORPORATION

Jan 2019 – May 2022 | Boynton Beach, FL / Remote

Quality and Scale – Elevated visual quality to competitive casino-market standards while helping quadruple annual production from roughly 2-3 games to 10; art-directed 40+ HHR titles during the studio’s growth.
Studio Growth – Helped grow the team to 3x its original size, hiring and onboarding talent, training artists in industry-standard game pipelines and raising capability through coaching, research and stretch assignments.
Flash to Unity – Led the art-side transition from Flash to Unity, defining in-house workflows, training materials, sandbox builds and experimental projects that helped the team adopt the new environment.
Creative and Production Leadership – Owned visual direction while running reviews, production coordination, outsourcing, performance reviews; continued contributing illustration and animation on roughly one in five titles.
Acquisition Readiness – Guided the studio through evolving production practices, remote COVID operations and Everi’s acquisition, building the capability and maturity to meet Everi’s quality and production expectations; the team was retained and successfully integrated.

GRAPHIC ARTIST III (SENIOR) | CADILLAC JACK / AGS

Jul 2014 – Sep 2017 | Austin, TX

Selected Work: Fu Panda Extreme Jackpots; Da Ji Da Li (Golden Wins); Divine Moon; Wild China; Chinatown Luck

Principal Artist – Provided concept art, illustration, animation, and VFX on games, supporting them from start to finish.
Rapid Growth – Promoted from Artist II to Artist III (Senior) within the first year while progressing from new to After Effects to the studio’s go-to animation resource; shared techniques, presets and training with peers and new hires.
Unity Pioneer – Worked on a small artist/dev team on AGS’s first Unity title, helping test and define artist workflows.
Systems and Mentorship – Partnered with IT to build a networked render farm from available hardware for After Effects and 3D workflows; also helped interview, onboard and mentor new artists.

OWNER / ARTIST | PK GAME ART & ILLUSTRATION

Mar 2011 – Feb 2020 | Freelance / Concurrent

Client Work – Delivered game art, illustration, motion design, VFX and animation for indie and commercial clients, including Mattel; established art direction and recruited other artists for larger projects.
Business Operations – Managed the full freelance business cycle, including marketing, proposals, estimates, contracts, scheduling, client communication, invoicing and delivery.

ASST DIRECTOR / EFL TEACHER | BUCKLAND INTL EDUCATION GROUP

Feb 2009 – Mar 2012 | China

Teaching and Team Development – Promoted from EFL Teacher to Assistant Director after one year; trained, evaluated and supported 100+ foreign teachers annually in lesson planning, classroom management and teaching across age groups, while continuing to teach in settings ranging from small groups to large public-school classes.
Cross-Cultural Operations – Traveled across China to support partner schools, fill urgent teaching needs and meet with school officials on staffing and program delivery; authored and illustrated the Non-Stop Talking textbook series used in 100+ schools and won 1st Prize in a Guangxi Province English teaching competition.

Selected Leadership & Innovation

Built and expanded a formal art preproduction system, from early theme exploration and visual development through approvals, storyboards, and production-ready Jira backlogs.
Led development of reusable art standards, templates, and Unity-ready components to improve consistency and scalability across teams.
Helped integrate multiple teams into the roughly 100-person Fat Cat Studio, contributing shared onboarding, documentation, working agreements, and studio identity.
Championed artist-first AI workflows for concept and preproduction, balancing experimentation with authorship, reproducibility, legal considerations, and production quality.

Technical & Creative Skills

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Substance, Unity, Spine, ZBrush, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, LucidLink, Smartsheet, Microsoft 365, Excel, Perforce, GitHub
Skills: Art Direction, Game Development & Production, Team Leadership & People Development, Cross-Functional Communication & Leadership, Creative Review & Feedback, Game Design (Casino, Mobile, Indie & Tabletop), Product Planning, Technical Art Leadership, Workflow & Pipeline Design, Creative Operations, Change Management, Role & Career Framework Design, Vendor, Contractor & Contract Management, Illustration, Animation, VFX
AI and Emerging Technology: ChatGPT, Gemini, Adobe Firefly, ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, Meshy AI
Languages: English (native); Mandarin Chinese (conversational)