Eric Cabot Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Engineering manager for the main Shotgun application and responsible for most front-end development. In 2016 after many years of software development I decided to make a career change and became a manager to try human challenges! As a new manager I grew the team from 4 to 12 front-end web developers in only 18 months! Two QAs were added to my team afterwards. Shotgun is an amazing group at Autodesk! Currently my team is working hard at making our application as easy as possible for new users as well as adding powerful features for our enterprise customers. Our target user is a production manager of a VFX studio.I am playing my role of engineering manager with two hats: PROJECT and PEOPLE:PROJECT: make sure projects are planned and resourced properly. Make sure technical discussions are happening. Make sure designers and engineers are working well together. All that is happening in partnership with the product manager by managing the typical triangle: TIME, RESOURCE and SCOPE.PEOPLE: listen to my direct reports and just help them be happy at work! Help them grow in their career development. Help them on their communication skills. Make sure they have what they need to be successful in our projects. At the same time work with them to define and commit to our engineering excellence standard.Tools : JIRA (with Kanban methodology), Slack, Trello, Microsoft Teams,

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Autodesk acquired Shotgun in June 2014 to form a new group called Shotgun.In this period I have done many programming challenges mostly on improving the review and approval segment of the web application.In 2015 I was responsible for the "cut support" project which was about supporting editorial workflows in Shotgun again mostly in the review and approval side of the application. I was also the scrum master on this project for about a year.This project was a great success

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Asset collaboration in the cloud (project Scotty):- enabled publishing of 3D geometry from Maya to the cloud- added viewing technology in the web browser for Maya 3D geometry- optimized thumbnail display in the web app to reduce bandwidth usage with the server- completed interaction features in the web app (e.g.: multi-selection, drag&drop, ...)keywords: alembic, emscripten, javascript, jquery, C++, WebGL, backbone, bootstrap, HTML, CSStools: git, sourcetree, webstorm, chrome debugger

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Development leader for porting the C++ Maya API to C#I covered over 400 C++ classes including 10 000 methods !- integrated SWIG to enable automatic porting as much as possible- found solutions to expose the original code as advanced C# features (properties, iterator, events, etc)- was able to raise the quality of the port to the point where users thought it was a full rewrite in C#- coordinated with the team in ShanghaiKeywords: C#, SWIG, C++/CLI, .NETTools: Microsoft Visual Studio, SWIG

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Project Skyline (games middleware):- implemented in Qt an advanced browser of game assets (using Autodesk DNA data model)- enabled game recording (similar to Tivo) while connected to a game console- implemented a node library of mathematical solvers- development leader for debugging workflows (replay, timeline, watches, slow motion) within our visual programming editor- implemented a drawing object library for Autodesk HIK- worked on the state machine node technologyKeywords: C++, Qt, TCP/IPTools: Microsoft Visual Studio

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Autodesk acquired Softimage late in 2008Continued the work on Softimage | XSI:- general development for XSI v7.0- specialist on performance optimizations for large number of objects when loading/saving/duplicating and also on general interactivity where I was able to increase the performance from 4 to 480 fps!- modelling tools (turn-edge operator, envelop operator deform user normals)Keywords: C++Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio

Burlington, Ma, Us

Avid acquired Softimage in 1998Modelling tools:- added the first modelling toolset for XSI v1.5- wrote many polygon mesh tools like add-polygon, add-edge, split-polygon, dicing, extrusion, surface of revolution, ...3D Text:- development leader- built a complete architecture using the main three layers: text -> curves -> mesh (solid or planar)- supported full modelling relations to enable the user to edit the text (or the curves) and see the result being updated accordinglyFace Robot:- converted all operators from Python to C++- implemented sculpting tools- worked on the design for the second generationCurve tool:- implemented a state-of-the-art Bezier interactive toolKeywords: C++, OpenGL, Microsoft COM, SGITools: MSDEV

Redmond, Washington, Us

Softimage 3D- my very first task at Softimage was to fix a complicated math problem in a 3D animation used in the 1st Batman movie- allowed expressions to be used when setting up connections for motion capture- ported Softimage drawing code from GL to OpenGL- wrote tools for the special project "virtual theatre" enabling real world to mix "live" with 3D using chroma keyingXSI (Softimage 2nd generation)- was member of the first team (4 persons) working on the design of the 2nd generation of Softimage- designed the viewing architecture using OpenGL in C++keywords: C and C++, GL and OpenGL, Microsoft COM, Silicon Graphicstools: Microsoft Visual Studio

Montréal, Québec, Ca

Contract with SPAR aerospace to simulate the articulation of the canadien arm on the space shuttleReal-Time Environment Visualisation FacilityBuilt a whole 3D editor using GL (ancestor of OpenGL) on SGIkeywords: C, GL, SGI, UNIXtools: vi, dbx

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering

Diplôme D'Études Collégiales, Sciences Pures