Christopher John Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

Set Lighting Technician. (Britney Ever After, Summer Intern, Stop the Wedding, Love on the Sidelines)Grip. (Murder She Baked: A Fudge Cupcake Mystery) Electrics Best Boy. (Signed Sealed Delivered 9, Sign Sealed Delivered 10)Applied advanced lighting techniques for style and mood using placement, color temperatures, gels and fabric diffusion.Rigged heavy equipment (18K lights and ballasts) to lifts and operated them for outdoor night scenes.Responsible for the safe movement, setup and wrap of sophisticated and sensitive equipment.Problem solved under extreme pressure. Distributed power from generator to set under all weather conditions including wet where Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCI) were required. Coordinated with all crew including Director, Director of Photographer, Camera crew, Grips, Gaffer and Generator operator. Responsible for the safety of the cast and crew operating around potentially dangerous equipment. Explored new lighting techniques for visual effects and special effects.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Render Wrangler. (The Deep Animated Series)Pass setup for geometry, layering textures, FX holdbacks and mattes, depth, shadows, RGB lighting, normals, Reflections/Refractions, FX particle clouds and shaders.Efficient and prioritized rendering on the farm.Slap comp of passes in order to identify potential quality control issues and rendering anomalies.Solve unique problems quickly on shots in order to keep the pipeline intact. Determine where in the pipeline enhancements need to be assigned to if any.

Calgary, Canada Area

Applications Designer/Developer/Financial Risk Analyst/Software TesterBegan as a help desk representative, advising clients on the use of the EnCompass suite and documented best practices for many of the contained applications. later this documentation was used as the foundation of a new help file for the suite. Progressed to applications designer and tester of the Configuration Management and Credit management apps.Remained current on the best practices and trading rules and guidelines. Implemented, compiled and tested patches and new versions for quality assurance.Responsible for the timely roll out of new versions and updates to all clients. Developed a new Dodd Frank app to organize the updated trading specifications vital to the financial risk management and energy trading industry.

Diploma, 3D Animation And Visual Effects

Activities and Societies: Participated in the creation a short films and demo reels in the following areas: Sound and Boom microphone.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Created and maintained computer systems for multiple clientsimplemented a basic render engine in that could.