• Responsible for setting and achieving all department goals, creating roadmaps, shaping team culture, executing internal training efforts• Directly supervise all senior engineers and managers, foster team leadership, leverage collective experience to drive improvements• Balance multi-million dollar budget and manage resource allocation• Execute on-time delivery of all software development endeavors

• Managed team of 7-12 enterprise software engineers developing and maintaining native-code PDF SDKs and end-user tools in an Agile, value-driven environment• Recruited, trained, coached, motivated, encouraged, and reviewed direct reports• Managed and prioritized numerous parallel projects across suite of products, delivering high-quality, on-time results via CI/CD pipeline• Designed and implemented custom web applications with PHP/JS/AJAX to add functional demos of scriptable server tool products to website• Primary contributor of Salesforce customization to automate product license delivery, integrate with e-commerce store, optimize internal workflows, and design metrics for tracking product sales/evaluations• Planned and coordinated outsourced projects for specialized development objectives, including Salesforce integration with Reprise license server

• Managed team of polyglot software engineers developing proprietary production pipeline using both agile and waterfall methodologies • Conducted user research to identify internal needs, isolate friction points• Researched cutting-edge technologies, developed prototypes, tested for viability• Collaborated with all stakeholders to determine key development objectives, wrote business cases, implemented cross-department solutions• Prioritized and managed all technical innovation through full lifecycle, ensuring alignment with business and user goals• Revolutionized character creation process via disruptive web app, leveraging previous 3D models to substantially minimize artist hours

• Served as principal full-stack web developer; built and maintained all company websites, back-end CMS, web marketing tools, local intranet• Designed and executed custom time tracking system and suite of data visualization tools to extract big data insights for job cost accounting• Developed extensive network of proprietary software, plug-ins, and web apps using array of languages, APIs, and frameworks• Provided technical support and pipeline integration for all third-party software, including Google Apps, Salesforce, Autodesk/Adobe suites

• Developed game-changing facial motion capture system, delivering higher quality animation in a fraction of the time• Supervised and worked with team of programmers optimizing the character creation and animation pipelines• Managed team of artists creating thousands of distinct 3D characters

• Modeled, rigged, and textured 3D props and characters for dozens of concurrent projects, often playing key role as Lead Animator• Independently scripted tools for Autodesk Maya to streamline workflow, establishing foundation for industry-leading pipeline

• Modeled hero characters and scripted tools to automatically generate a crowd of unique background characters for the documentary film Chicago 10

• Managed the workflow and progression of the chapter’s animation department• Contributed modeling, animation, and leadership to a 2-year collaborative group animation project• Provided Maya-based 3D graphics demonstrations and tutorials for interested students

• Produced visual effects, animation, and additional graphics for the independent film "Our Bombs"• Tasks included modeling, shading, lighting, rigging, animating, working with Maya dynamics, editing, compositing, and solving challenging problems in Maya, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro• Recreated the previously produced, award-winning film "5 Heroes of AIDS in Africa" in high definition format through a process of precisely matching the original editing and compositing work