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Jonathan Friedberg

Huntington,NY

Summary

My experience in the restaurant industry has made me more resilient and able to work well under pressure. My experience as an Artist and as a Musician has better developed my inquisitive nature. My passion in life has always been art, and my technical experience as a programmer has improved my abilities to shine as a 3D artist as well as be efficient doing so.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Intern - 3D Environment Artist

Universal Phoenix Group LLC
Remote
06.2025 - 08.2025

•3D modeling high and low poly assets
•Coordinating with other team members to create assets using high-details and proper pipeline
•Recording, mixing, and editing music tracks for demo release
•Creating and rendering 3D environments
•Beta-testing gameplay

Web Master

Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge
07.2020 - 06.2023
  • Maintaining and updating multiples websites, including "ishk.net", "malorbooks.com", "humanjourney.us", "booksforafghanistan.com" (transferred ownership), "hoopoebooks.com" (transferred ownership), "booksforpakistan.org" (transferred ownership), "booksforrefugees.org" (transferred ownership)
  • SEO using Google Analytics and various plugins - including WP Rocket configuration
  • Creating and implementing media to various websites - including images, video, audio, and pdfs
  • Configuring third party plugins, web hosts, and DNS providers to websites for various tasks including connecting to email servers and site migrations
  • Created 4 web development projects using the following: Javascript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React, Express, Node.js, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS
  • Learned the fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming, Javascript, CSS and HTML

Software Engineering Immersive | Engineering Fellow

General Assembly
New York, NY
04.2019 - 07.2019

Sound Editor

Ambry Genetics
Orange County, CA
07.2014 - 07.2015
  • Cleaning & Editing sound files
  • Formatting sound files according to broadcast standards for company's website & podcast
  • Coordinating with speakers to assign appropriate audio equipment and technical set-up

Sound Engineer

Santa Monica, CA
03.2012 - 03.2015
  • Recording, mixing & editing sound for various projects in the Los Angeles area

Education

Certification - 3D Modeling Essentials

CG Spectrum
US
04.2025

Certificate of Completion - Software Engineering

General Assembly
US
07.2019

Animation Courses -

Forest Park Community College
US
05.2018

B.S. - Audio Production

The Art Institute of Los Angeles
US
03.2012

Skills

  • 3D Modeling
  • 3D Textuing
  • Texel Density
  • UV Unwrapping
  • Hard Surface Modeling
  • Organic Modeling
  • 3D Environments
  • Lightmap Baking
  • Triplanar Material
  • High/Low Poly pipeline
  • Substance Painter
  • Zbrush
  • Maya
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity
  • Blender
  • Photoshop
  • Figure drawing
  • Painting
  • Photography
  • Stere and 51 recording
  • Mixing & editing
  • ADR
  • Foley
  • Soft FX
  • Hard FX
  • Onset recording
  • Appropriate dB ranges
  • Microphone placement
  • Signal flow

References

  • Mel Raff, Supervisor at ISHK, (301) 346-8329
  • Leslie Morgan, Previous Web-Master at ISHK, (360) 790-8014
  • Jonathan Russell, Sculptures By Jonathan Russell And Sculptor Previous Co-worker, (415) 902-4350, jrhoopoebooks@aol.com

Certification

  • Certificate CG Spectrum - Industry Certificate in 3D Modeling Essentials
  • General Assembly May 2019 - Aug 2019, Certificate of Completion in Software Engineering

Timeline

Intern - 3D Environment Artist

Universal Phoenix Group LLC
06.2025 - 08.2025

Web Master

Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge
07.2020 - 06.2023

Software Engineering Immersive | Engineering Fellow

General Assembly
04.2019 - 07.2019

Sound Editor

Ambry Genetics
07.2014 - 07.2015

Sound Engineer

03.2012 - 03.2015

Certification - 3D Modeling Essentials

CG Spectrum

Certificate of Completion - Software Engineering

General Assembly

Animation Courses -

Forest Park Community College

B.S. - Audio Production

The Art Institute of Los Angeles
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