Michael Balzer Email & Phone Number

Cary, NC, US

Cary, NC, US

Moore Park, NSW, AU

I was leading the development efforts for the Rendering team as well as the Procedural Geometry & Simulation team. My responsibilities include team management, planning and prioritization, technical oversight and best practices, hiring and training. Beside my role as Development Lead, I still spent a significant amount of time writing rendering code.

Moore Park, NSW, AU

I was working on all aspects of Animal Logic's proprietary renderer and it's related tools. I was focused on the core rendering and sampling algorithms, but also liked working on artist tools and infrastructure that integrate the renderer into the overall pipeline.

Moore Park, NSW, AU

In addition to my responsibilities as a Rendering Engineer, I provided technical leadership and guidance to the R&D developers in Vancouver. I work closely with team leads in Sydney as well as production leads in Vancouver to make sure all technical requirements are well understood and executed on.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

I established Geomerics' first international subsidiary in Vancouver, Canada, with the focus of supporting games studios in North America and Asia, including Electronic Arts, Blizzard, Microsoft Studios, 2K Games, Square Enix, Tencent, NCsoft. I stayed in close contact with the main team in the UK to transfer my experience and insight into customer and.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

As Lead Developer and later Head of Development at Geomerics, I was responsible for the development of the Enlighten SDK as a whole, including team management, short and medium term product decisions, release schedule and process, and coordination of the in-house integration of Enlighten into Unreal Engine 3 and 4, platform ports and apps for various.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

I worked on the core algorithms of the Enlighten SDK, a middleware for real-time radiosity computations, mainly optimizing and improving the offline radiosity computation as well as context specific data reduction, but I also touched the real-time components with platform specific implementations on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.After a few months, I was given the.

Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, DE

I did research on different topics in computer graphics and visualization, and published and presented a variety of papers at SIGGRAPH, InfoVis, Eurographics, and other specialized conferences. Aside my research, I was a teaching assistant and gave courses and lectures in computer graphics and general computer science, as well as supervised students during.

Doctorate, Computer Science

Diploma, Computer Science