Gregory Rizzo Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, CA, US

Greater Los Angeles Area

Dolby Vision Research and Developmenthttp://www.dolby.com/us/en/technologies/dolby-vision.html

Santa Monica

• Research and Development lead engineer in Post Production and Visual Effects:
• redesigned and improved the company production pipeline
• development of Web Applications (Project Management, Notification System...)
• development of Maya tools (Asset, Rendering, Archive Managers, Crowd Simulation...)
• development of production tools to collect bugs, update and deploy them everywhere
• created tools for company’s notable work on:– Game Of Thrones title sequence – House Of Cards by David Fincher– Nike Possibilities campaign

Santa Monica

• Research and Development lead engineer in Post Production:
• development of a scalable workflow and asset management application from scratch:– web interface in Python to manage and monitor the workflows, batches and assets– process applications in cross-platform C++ are part of.
• notable features: dailies import; verify copy; archive on LTO5; transcode from: Red, Phan- tom, Arri, Quicktime, to: DPX, OpenEXR, Quicktime; one decoder to multiple encoders;OpenGL acceleration; EDL import; audio.
• created tools for company’s notable work on:– Justin Bieber: Never Say Never by Jon M. Chu / Paramount Pictures – Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by David Fincher / Columbia Pictures

Paris Area, France

• Research and development engineer internship in Digital Cinema:
• development of applications in PHP, Perl and Python for the management, the monitoring, and the control of the digital equipments in the theaters and for the generation and the delivery of Digital Cinema Packages (DCP).
• responsible for the development and the support of the application for the generation and the delivery of Key Delivery Messages (KDM).

Toulouse Area, France

• Software engineer internship using C++ language on Linux (RedHat):
• 32 bits to 64 bits migration of the OpenCube server (Operating system and OpenCube software) and study of the performance enhancements
• implementation into the OpenCube software of a color space conversion from RGB and YUV to XYZ for Digital Cinema
• development of a multi-threaded encoding architecture and study of the performance enhancements for Jpeg2000 encoding for Digital Cinema

Toulouse Area, France

• Vice President and active member of the school student audiovisual association (TVn7):
• management of a team of twenty people
• live coverage of national sporting and music events (concerts, sports championships...)
• video editing, DVD authoring and mastering
• organization of events (projections, shows, plays...)

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Ms, Telecommunications And Networks

Activities and Societies: Treasurer and Co-Pilot of N7 4L Trophy student association (Sporting challenge (rally) in Morocco with.