ABOUT:Avneet Kaur is a veteran in the animation and vfx industry with 18+ years of experience. As a high-performing leader, she plans and strategizes on the creative, technical, and team management fronts, and leads her projects to successful completion. As a self-motivated and creative problem solver, she thrives on solution-driven ideas to meet the artistic and technical vision of the projects, while meeting the business objectives of the studio, in a timely and cost-effective way.She is very passionate about the people and craft of animation and has a keen interest in academia. At WDAS, she helps mentor and grow both the incoming and existing talent at the studio. She is deeply engaged in outreach for WDAS and has been a Speaker, Paper Contributor, and Talk Presenter at several international conferences in an effort to share the artistic and technical innovations in CG Animation. She is actively involved as a mentor with various associations such as Women in Animation, Women in Technology, Girls Who Code, Rise Up Animation, ABAI(India), and both her Alma Maters(BIT-Mesra and TAMU) in an effort to encourage and support diversity and inclusion in the animation community and its ecosystem, worldwide. Her work as a distinguished leader and humanitarian in her field, was recently recognized and she was awarded the Texas A & M Outstanding Alumni Award for 2021. PROFICIENCY:• Extensive experience with end-to-end CG digital asset production and content creation from conceptualization through design, testing, implementation, and deployment.• Pushing the envelope on technology to direct and deliver creative solutions that enrich the final product and user experiences• Developing tools and holistic workflows to improve and optimize processes across film production pipelines.• Creative and strategic problem solver with strong artistic, technical and organizational skills.• Building high functional teams and solving complex engineering problems, across multiple projects and in collaborative environments. • Strong communication, facilitating collaboration across a diverse range of people, helping align different perspectives towards a shared vision.• Expertise in balancing the needs of stakeholders, and breaking down complex narratives into simple, compelling ideas and actionable items• Leadership expertise in hiring, mentoring and developing training curriculum for onboarding incoming talent, as well as growing existing talent