Active board member of The Visual Effects Society (VES) for the past 10 years and other local VFX and animation communities.I have been working in the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry for over 26 years. I started my career as a software technical support at a canadian reseller helping visual effects and animation productions; mainly supporting with softwares issues and training on Power Animator, Maya, Shake, Boujou, Shotgun, Rendering Software, Nuke, etc..During this period, I worked on a few film and animation productions, and also taught Maya in few schools and university in Montreal. Since the past 20 years I 've co-founded three companies related to the industry. First company, we built a strong Canadian reseller supporting over 300 customers in film, animation and games. The second company was a strategic talent agency supporting games and VFX studios growing their highlevel artists count. Lastly, the 3rd company goal was to develop an asset and production management software using innovative ideas to help VFX and Animation productions.Today I am building the Media and Entertainment (M&E) strategic business for Hypertec across the world. Helping our engineering and cloud teams to align their roadmap with the industry needs and trends. Also, I facilitate relationships between our hardware/software partners technical teams and our engineers. Lastly, I manage worldwide strategic customer relationships for major studios, VFX & post houses and video game developers.