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San Carlos, CA, US

• Design and develop the studio asset and cinematics pipelines to maximize artist efficiency inside and outside Unreal Engine.
• Lead a small but mighty technical art team in delivering high quality assets and tools to fulfill the product vision and provide guidance on best practices for asset integration and character set up.
• Collaborate with engineers and art leads to ensure content meets engineering and art direction requirements, is optimized for performance, and follows established pipeline conventions.
• Set up the initial studio build and continuous integration pipelines to produce packaged builds, perform automated testing, and run project maintenance commandlets.

San Carlos, CA, US

San Mateo, California, US

• Prototype and validate new avatar customization, facial animation and retargeting systems
• Test new PBR rendering and vegetation systems in the Roblox proprietary engine and provide feedback to the rendering engineers
• Visual development and Lua scripting for internal vertical slice projects

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Collaborate with research scientists to create and maintain 3d assets used for machine learning training
• Implement Unity and UE4 experiences used to demonstrate technology centered around virtual humans with a focus towards bringing such technology from incubation to product (game logic, lighting/shader setup, character.
• Developed a technique to generate personalized stylized avatar faces from a captured 3d reconstruction
• Lead team scrums, coordinate with outsource vendors, and generate road maps for the teams 3d requirements.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Rigged and integrated character assets into the Frostbite game engine utilizing various proprietary technologies such as real-time cloth and runtime animation evaluation.
• Implement character deformation and animation features into the Frostbite game engine and ANT, EA's proprietary animation software.

1290 6th Ave New York, NY, US

• Enabled the completion of multi-million dollar creative projects by designing and developing the studio pipeline for software and creative development.
• Created the technical foundation of photo real digital humans that perform at nationally televised events using C++, Python, the Maya API, OpenGL, CGFX, Qt and OpenCL.
• Prevented pipeline chaos by creating a production and asset management system using Python, CMake, Jenkins and various web technologies including Django, Javascript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Twitter Bootstrap, and RabbitMQ.
• Lead a team of developers and interfaced with artists to ensure the studio R&D efforts align with the studio creative goals.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Jack the Giant Slayer - [2012]
• Developed facial deformation and animation systems using C++, Python, PyQt, and the Maya API resulting in procedurally generated hero-level facial rigs.
• Worked with R&D, modeling, and animation departments to deliver a topology-independent facial performance/solving/animation pipeline.

US

• Yellow Submarine - [Look Test] - Character TD
• Mars Needs Moms - [2010] - Lead Character TD
• A Christmas Carol - [2009] - Character TD
• Developed animation, rigging, and finaling tools using C++, the Maya API, Python, and MEL.
• Rigged several character assets and helped define the FACS-based facial rigging pipeline to ensure high-quality deformations driven by motion capture and animation.
• Ran cloth simulations and performed cloth fixes on various shots and characters.

US

• Trained to convert company site from ASP to ASP.NET.
• Researched third-party web applications and created demos for review.
• Wrote functional and design specifications for new web functionality.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

B.A.S., Animation And Visual Effects