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R&D Supervision for the Production Engineering team at Animal Logic. Overall responsibility for ~30 engineers in two locations with multiple engineering managers as direct reports. Responsible for the overall vision for the platform offering of the Production Engineering team and working with senior management across the company.

Technical support for Holden Collective - a Creative Web Agency specializing in E-Commerce for Fashion brands. Implementing custom Shopify & Woocommerce/Wordpress stores, themes, plugins and client side functionality for a wide range of brands.

Responsible for all efforts for Production Technology across multiple business units in multiple geographies. Totally over 150 engineers across these business units, our focus was on consolidation and unification across brands and adoption of shared, cloud backed technology. Launched a new brand with a new, ground up technology platform in two new geographies for the business.

Overseeing the global software technology team responsible for our artist facing toolsets. Building teams in all our five Film studios and working with the budgets for this global team. This include building a brand new Software team based in Bangalore complete with a newly designed training program for the fast tracking of the new team members into MPC architecture. Working with the other members of the global technology management team to oversee the general technical success of MPC to allow the studio to continue to win Academy Awards! Yay The Jungle Book!Working with our external vendors on the roadmaps for major industry Software and partnering with universities for research collaboration and co-op opportunities.

Directly managing a large team of developers in Vancouver and Montreal, while working with counterpart in London and Bangalore to direct the global software strategy at MPC. Working on MPC's award winning tools, our global pipeline supports the largest VFX studio in the world consistently delivering the biggest blockbusters in production.Creating the overall vision software stack and the team based on the company strategy and ensuring we are successful in achieving it. Introducing new workflows and technology to keep up with increasing complexity and reduced film schedules, as well as ensuring the improvement and upkeep to our legacy stack to maintain MPC's position as the world leader in VFX production. Building relationships with senior management, HODs and supervisors. Recruiting, performance reviews and budget management for a team of ~50 people.Implemented metrics capture and modern graphical, interactive display of the team's performance and workload across multiple systems. Working with local universities and research groups to collaborate on innovative and novel technology adoption and development.

This role is a supervisory role aimed at bridging the global software department and the many productions going on in parallel - coordinating any development efforts needed for a given movie to meet any challenge. Working closely with the CG and VFX Supervisors and ensuring they can be confident the technical challenges of their shows can be met.Understanding and distilling the creative challenges of the biggest blockbusters and bringing new software solutions to the ever increasing complexity and reduced budgets faced in these movies.

Leading many strategic projects revolving around the lighting, rendering and compositing work carried out across the global MPC business. One key project was leading the Katana project; tasked with redesigning and reimplementing the lighting and look-development pipelines in use across all MPC film sites - London, Vancouver, Montreal and Bangalore. Leading and managing the team responsible for this transition involving support for proprietary geometry formats, shader authoring tools, renderer integration and asset management.Working closely with HODs, leads and CG supervisors to ensure production needs are met across several large productions. Building relationships to promote the use of Katana outside of the lighting pipeline.Overall allowed MPC to move to a much more efficient model for lighting and rendering the thousands of shots we work on a year. Allowing shorter ramp up time for artists joining the company from competitors and allowed more consistent quality across the spectrum of film projects.

Shader writer and rendering/lighting pipeline developer managing a team of developers and render TDs. Focusing on the development of the next generation, physically based, rendering pipeline at Cinesite and evaluating latest lighting and rendering technologies.Building relationships with senior management, HODs and supervisors. Recruiting, performance reviews and budget management for a team of 6 people.

Responsible for general overseeing and introduction of Python development across the company. Introduced Python coding standards and best practices.Implemented the code management, testing and deployment systems now in use across all development teams.Part of the development team providing custom RenderMan shaders for all current film projects being worked on at Cinesite.Developed the lighting and rendering pipeline for use on over 800 shots on John Carter whilst supporting several concurrent smaller shows.Led development of our production environment management.Introduced both artist facing and developer centric documentation tools now in use across all departments.

Implemented Temerity's Pipeline software studio wide across all areas of the pipeline. Migrated studio from a MS Windows OS based studio to a purely Linux studioLead the development of the django (web) based suite of tools responsible for tracking every asset and shot that passed through the studio and interfaced directly with the VFX Pipeline.On set supervision of a 6 week shoot in South Africa. Working with motion control and innovative camera tracking system - I designed and implemented the entire pipeline while on set. Handled hundreds of shots with live review for the on set director and DOP, then sent data back to Manchester head office for further processing.