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The Director of Immersive IMAX and 4DX Cinemas at IMAX
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S D previously worked as Director of Motion Pictures ( Virtual Production ) at Virtual Productions and Distinguished Engineer ( Hadoop, CDP, AWS & GCP ) at Samsung Electronics America. S D holds Doctorate, Cinematography And Film/Video Production from Karolinska Institutet.

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Prime Occupation: Director of Immersive Cinematic Reality ( XR, VR, 4DX and IMAX ) Unique Selling Proportion: Virtual ProductionAn International Standard Photorealistic XR Project ( https://youtu.be/DRRM9zWL0Xo )Dear Sponsors and Grant Providers make an offer to discuss your VR Project Budgets and Remuneration/ Salary Negotiations.A Director of XR, VR, and CR Immersive Technologies, and My current interests and working streams are in XR and CR ( Unreal Engine 5, Quixel, Zbrush, Twin Motion, and Lumion ). A Plethora of hands-on experience from diversified Industries.Work Experience: 15+ Years ( Since 2008 )Industry Experience: 15 years ( I am from Entertainment / Motion Picture / Information Technology since 2009 )My Technical Introduction (Cloud Demo): https://youtu.be/nfQqXWgG3Mo

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Imax
The Director of Immersive IMAX and 4DX Cinemas
Los Gatos, CA, US
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The Director Of Immersive Imax And 4Dx Cinemas

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Director Of Motion Pictures ( Virtual Production )

Canada

An International Standard Director with great experience in versatile fields of Arts, Direction, Acting, Content Creation, and Dialogue Writing.Theatrical Experience ( Screening / Presentations )4DX IMAXReal 3DXtreme Digital XD2D theatres MX4DAudio Quality & CompatibilityImax Surround Sound ( Enhanced )12 Track Digital ( L - 12 )Dolby Atmos Music ( 3D Audio Format )DTS Surround 7.1 DTX Dolby Digital Auro 3D / Auro 11.1 / Auro Max4DXCinema 4DINTERNATIONAL STANDARD ( Expensive Film Equipment for Large Format )Multi-Camera setup: Imax 3D + 3D VR + Large Format 8k or 12k ( Red Monstro / Arri Alexa LF / Panavision DXL2 etc )Multi-Camera setup: Imax ( Real 3D ) + 3D 360 VR ( Kandao Obsidian Pro or Insta titan or Z cam V1 Pro ) + Large Format ( Achtel / Panavision Millennium DXL2 / Sony Venice 2 / Alexa 65 and LF / Red Ranger Monstro ) on a Film Production Set. The Best Resolution for filming is beyond 18k sensors.

Distinguished Engineer ( Hadoop, Cdp, Aws & Gcp )

A Distinguished Engineer with an overall 15+ years experience of varied work experience from various domains and with divergent technologies viz. Big data, Cloud, AWS, EC2, S3, GCP, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, Unix, RHEL, Spark, Data Bricks, Kafka, ACL, Kerberos, Active Directory, LDAP, SSL, VPN, Hbase, Sqoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, SEO, SEM, SQL, Data Governance, Data Research, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, GIS and Immersive Technologies. Expertise in concepts of Networking and cloud Engineering ( AWS, MS Azure & GCP ) who can implement High Availability, Performance Tuning, Horizontal Scaling, Rack Awareness, Data Encryption, Cluster Benchmarking, Access Controlling, and Speculative Execution. Software Engineering Services in Information Technology

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Distinguished Data Engineer ( Cdp, Spark, Ml, S3 & Aws )

Dedicated Hadoop Interacted with Stakeholders, Development, Administration, Application Teams for quick delivery.Agile / Scrum Project Management Interacts with 3rd party vendors to get proficient and experienced Consultants into Project. Tracks activities through Kanban Board ( to do, doing and done )Good understanding with SDLC / Agile / Waterfall Project Management ModelsAbility to drive teams productive and Obtain productivity in given deadlines.Providing access based on Business Justification through ARM and IMControlling Budgets on ongoing ProjectsInteract with Software Vendor Teams to get best services required for Hadoop Cluster Functioning and Performance. Tools : ARM , Kanban board , Agile, Scrum, IM, Iterations,

Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

Hadoop Administrator ( Hortonworks Hdp & Cloudera Cdh )

Client : William Sonama, SFOHadoop/ETL Administrator (Cloudera CDH + Informatica BDM)Admin Job Responsibilities:Extremely good and excellent at Hadoop/Bigdata Administration.Monitoring and Support. Experience with both versions of Hadoop CDH 5.x and HDP 2.x. along with Informatica BDM 10.1 and 10.2. Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of Hadoop infrastructure.Working with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users. This job includes setting up Linux users, setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce access for the new users. Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes using monitoring tools like Cloudera Manager, Ambari and other tools.Experience with Cloudera, Pivotal and Hortonworks Hadoop distributions.Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce, Spark, Kafka and Yarn applications.Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning, setting up queues and scheduler.Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application and business intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability.Hadoop application support, maintenance and troubleshooting at L1, L2 and L3 level.Implementing Access Control for Hadoop components Impala, Hive and HUE, Implementing Data encryption, data migration, data prevention, disaster recovery and data loading.Considerable knowledge about automation/configuration management using Puppet.Experience on Designing, Planning, Administration, Installation, Configuring, Troubleshooting, Performance monitoring and Fine-tuning of Hadoop clusters at Lab, Dev and Production Environments. Excellent understanding of Hadoop architecture and underlying framework including Storage management.Experience in architecting, designing, installation, configuration and management of Apache Hadoop Clusters in HDP Hortonworks, Pivotol and Cloudera Hadoop Distribution.

Aug 2017 - May 2018

Distinguished Engineer ( Cloudera Hadoop )

Team: HADOOP INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM ( Cloudera CDH 5 )Client Project : CAE HADOOP - VISA• Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of Hadoop infrastructure.• Aligning with the systems engineering team to propose and deploy new hardware and software environments required for Hadoop and to expand existing environments.• Worked with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users. This job includes setting up Linux users, setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce access for the new users.• Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes using tools Cloudera Manager.• Experience with Cloudera CDH5 Hadoop distributions.• Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, Spark and Yarn applications.• Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning, setting up queues and scheduler.• Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application and business intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability.• Hadoop application support, maintenance and troubleshooting. • Implementing Access Control for Hadoop components Impala, Hive and HUE.• Collaborating with application teams to install operating system and Hadoop updates, patches, minor/ major version upgrades when required.• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration. • Experience with automation/configuration management using Puppet Tools. • Ability to automate the things using puppet, ruby and shell scripts• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies. • Develop and enhance platform best practices and educate application users on best practices• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.

Sep 2016 - Feb 2017

Bigdata Engineer ( Hadoop Network )

Role Fit: HADOOP INFRASTRUCTURE & ARCHITECT TEAMClient Project: ISE - Integrated Services Engineering ( Bigdata)• Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of Hadoop infrastructure.• Aligning with the systems engineering team to propose and deploy new hardware and software environments required for Hadoop and to expand existing environments.• Worked with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users. This job includes setting up Linux users, setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce access for the new users.• Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes using tools Ambari, Nagios and Ganglia.• Experience with Hortonworks HDP & HDF Hadoop distributions ( Hortonworks HDP 2.3 & 3.1 )• Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, Spark and Yarn applications.• Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning, setting up queues and scheduler.• Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application and business intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability.• Hadoop application support, maintenance and troubleshooting. • Implementing Access Control for Hadoop components Hive and HUE.• Collaborating with application teams to install operating system and Hadoop updates, patches, minor/ major version upgrades when required.• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration. • Experience with automation/configuration management using Puppet Tools. • Ability to automate the things using puppet, ruby and shell scripts• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies. • Develop and enhance platform best practices and educate application users on best practices• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.

Nov 2015 - Jul 2016

Stem Research Scientist

Warrensburg, Missouri

Project: SEO - Search Engine OptimizationThe Research Paper on " Search Engine Optimization " was graded and approved. Dr.Sam Ramanujan and Prof. Dr. Someshwar Kesh. Additionally researched and studied various components of Bigdata, Network, Hive, Hadoop, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS. The web engineering technologies under the guidance of Prof Dr. Ma which helped me to perform Data Science Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Privacy, and Data Security IT Distinguished Engineer ( Senior Hadoop/Bigdata Engineer )Active Roles: Actor, Data Research Scientist, and Project Manager (data and Hadoop Projects )Hadoop Tools: Cloudera and Hortonworks Administrator.Role Fit: SOFTWARE ENGINEER ( BIGDATA, NETWORK, CLOUD, HADOOP INFRA & ARCHITECT TEAMS )

Apr 2014 - Nov 2014

Director Of Software ( Distinguished Engineer )

Project: Go Digital ( Business Marketing )Project Management, PMO Product Promotions, Agile Methodology, Scrum, Sprints, Iterations, Kanban, PMO, Big Data, Java-based Software Applications, Marketing Go Digital Card, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics.Networking, SSL, VPN, Firewall, IMAP, POP, LDAP, AD, TLS, Unix Environment, Unix Admin, Package Installations, File Permissions, Unix Commanding, etc

Oct 2012 - Dec 2013

Big Data Analyst

Project: GT - Ground Truth and SV - Street View ( Google Atlas - GIS Data Mining )Unix / Linux Environment, Data Management, Data Engineering, Java, SQL, Data Streaming, Data Modelling, Data Analysis, Quality Control, QC, Data MiningClient: Google

Apr 2010 - Jun 2012

Content Creator ( Lyricist )

Dolby Atmos

Song Writing for Spatial Recording in Dolby Atmos and Binaural Beat Auro 3D.Genres : ClassicalMelodiesScience FictionFantasy

Apr 2009 - Mar 2010

Distinguished Software Engineer ( Networking )

Networking HTTPS, SSL, TLS, VPN, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, PPC, CPC, Adwords, Adsense, Blog Writing, Content writing, Back links, SEO, SEM, On-Page Optimization, Off-Page OptimizationGoogle AdWords & Adsense

Aug 2008 - Apr 2009
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Doctorate, Cinematography And Film/Video Production

Activities and Societies: Arts in Aesthetics Acting, Cinematic Direction, Music, Spatial Sound, VFX, VR, XR, CR, Grant Research. Nobel.

Master’S Degree, Information Technology, 3.4 / 4 Gpa

Activities and Societies: The GIS Research Scientist Newman Center UCM AlumniMaster of Science ( M S ) Specialized in Data Science.

Acting/Direction Course, Diploma In Film & Tv Acting / Direction, A

Madhu Film & Tv Institute

Activities and Societies: Art of Aesthetics, Acting, Direction, International Skits ( COP 15 - Copenhagen ) DenmarkCertified in Film.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Elective : MIS - Management of Information Systems.

High School, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, A

Brilliant Grammar High School

9th and 10th Grades of Schooling. Scored 87% Marks in 10th Grade ( 2002 )

Elementary School, Primary Schooling, A

Little Star'S High School

1st Grade to 8th Grade of Schooling

Play School At Steel Plant, Vizag, Asia, A

Jyothi Bala Vihar

Pre-Schooling - Kindergarten at Play School

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Peace

Activities and Societies: Literature Peace MedicineThe Nobel Laureate of Peace, Medicine and Literature ( Art )

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S D is listed as The Director of Immersive IMAX and 4DX Cinemas at IMAX.

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S D is based in United States while working with IMAX.

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S D has worked for Imax, Virtual Productions, Samsung Electronics America, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and Bank Of America.

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S D's colleagues at IMAX include Anashen Navasartian, Rahul Chowdhury, Rachel W, Jon Carver, and Golnaz Tabrizi, Fiata, Cscp.

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S D holds Doctorate, Cinematography And Film/Video Production from Karolinska Institutet.

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