From early days at Pixar Animation Studios, to founding groundbreaking startup DigitalFish, Dan Herman has for 25 years lead tech innovation at the forefront of 3D.At DigitalFish, Dan leads a widely respected team developing new techniques for digital media and immersive content, with customers including many of the best-known media companies, production studios, technology leaders and consumer brands worldwide. At DreamWorks Animation, Dan was a core contributor to the design and architecture of the Academy Award-winning "Premo" 3D animation system and designed and built a 2D animation system, both still currently in use at the studio. At Pixar Animation Studios, from Pixar's first film Toy Story through Finding Nemo, he managed and led development on projects involving feature animation tools, special effects, autonomous characters, games, and production tracking systems. Prior to Pixar, Dan sailed in the 1995 America's Cup as navigator for the yacht Young America, where he also headed development of the extensive instrumentation system used onboard Young America and its support boats. His previous work in computer graphics centered on CAD/CAM and scientific visualization. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Bachelor's in Cognitive Psychology with Comp Sci minor from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Cornell.http://www.digitalfish.comLeadership: Corporate Management and Entrepreneurship: formation, planning, venture funding, operations and governance.Technical: Agile/Scrum, software architecture, usability design, 3-D graphics & animation technology, visualization, procedural graphics, dynamics & simulation, numerical methods, parallel computing, fault-tolerance, and real-time systems.