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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Emeryville, California, Us

Member of team responsible for management of 65K-core (ca. 2018) render farm. Performed periodic on-call support to maintain 24/7 render farm reliability. Provided render farm technical support for rendering team, technical staff. Provided extensive developer support for all phases of internal and external metrics pipelines including data collection (Python, Flask, Logstash), transmission (Kafka, Qpid), storage (ElasticSearch, InfluxDB), and visualization (Grafana, Kibana), as well as deployment (Docker).• Anticipated need to streamline and scale Grafana dashboard creation; developed Grafana API for Python, and a compact JSON-based dashboard specification.• Designed and implemented main landing page for AngularJS web application used by studio artists to monitoring their batch queue jobs.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Responsible for developing and maintaining scripts used in job submission, execution, tracking, and reporting for Qube-managed render farm. Developed additional script APIs for transferring render data to/from job tracking databases. Coordinated with Systems department to troubleshoot and solve problems with render farm hardware. Provided technical support to artists for render jobs, the Qube GUI application, and other production tools. Worked closely with production management to determine appropriate render farm host allocations to support simultaneous shows and multiple departments.• Supervised team of Digital Production Administrators team in render farm management, inter-studio asset transfer, and disk server management. Established training procedures, situation reporting and crisis management best practices.• Managed expansion of render farm for Jack The Giant Slayer from 650 to 2200 hosts.• Instructed FX Technical Directors on how to leverage Qube API to optimize render job submission and execution performance.

Partnered with PipelineFX to provide on-site Qube Certified Administrator training and consulting services regarding computer graphics production to various film industry clients.• Compressed training curriculum to 2 days, saving on training costs.

Initial employee in start-up software firm adapting studio render farm management software to a commercial product (Qube).• Managed early product development.• Established customer support workflow and best practices.• Wrote primary software documentation and training curriculum.• Provided on-site deployment, consultation, and training.

Us

Brought on board 8 weeks before final delivery to provide rendering technical support and other film production pipeline consulting.• Worked with animation and lighting technical supervisors to identify bottlenecks and optimizations in asset pipeline for decreased turnaround time and increased efficiency.

Honolulu, Hawaii, Us

Provided rendering technical support and QA for visual effects sequence supervisors and rendering department. Performed various computer graphics production-related tasks including sequence layer breakdown, Maya software scene file assembly, and Shake software composited frame review.• Developed script tools to streamline various sequence production tasks, parse render farm queuing system logs for database input, and extract render performance statistics from production tracking database.• Participated in the development and implementation of a number of recommendations for production workflow optimizations that were necessary in order to complete the film on schedule.• Designed new directory structure, naming conventions, and tools to support future film projects.

Glendale, Ca, Us

Houston, Tx, Us