ABOUT
A skilled experience designer, art director and fabricator with more than 20 years of experience designing for film, television, commercial, and experiential design.
EXPERIENCE
Experience Designer
Jack Porter | 2023 - 2025
Responsible for designing innovative environmental graphics, wayfinding systems, and branded experiences for the built environment, integrating design, storytelling, and technology to communicate a brand’s vision and create immersive user experiences in sports facilities.
Owner & Operator
Baxter House Design & Fabrication | 2019-2023
Baxter House is a design and build firm with a focus on brand activations, plus the design and build of props and sets for television, film and commercial productions. As owner and operator, I have managed all aspects of the business from developing concepts with clients, to swinging a hammer, and everything in-between.
Senior Art Director
Rooster Teeth | 2014-2019
Full-time in-house art director managing all creative and logistical components of live-action Rooster Teeth productions including:
Design, construction and installation for broadcast productions
Production design for feature films and television series
Experiential design and installation management for RTX, Rooster Teeth’s annual Comic-Con-style convention in Austin, TX
Design for playful & stylish office environments in satellite offices
Film, Commercial & Experiential Design/Build Work
Freelance/ Art Directors Guild member | 2004-2015
Commercial art direction for brands including JCPenney, Progressive, Tide, Target and Toyota under agencies GSD&M and others; experiential design and builds for Nike, Napster and Ketel One; music video art direction for Paramore, Barenaked Ladies and plenty of other bands.
SKILLS
Fluent in Rhino 3D, Sketchup, VRay, Twinmotion, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Blender, AutoCAD, ComfyUI, SwarmUI, Kohya and Dreambooth. I never would have guessed this about myself but my superpower is learning new design software. I’m able to pretty quickly adapt to new apps.
Skilled in designing for 3D, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics and developing bespoke AI models and AI agents to aid in design and programming tasks.
Proven ability to work within and create budgets.
Hands-on knowledge & understanding of fabrication techniques, material selection & project management.
I can fix anything. It sounds like a weird brag but it’s true. I’m just really good at figuring out how things work.
