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United States

Tokyo, Japan

Emeryville, California, United States

• Dailies Lightspeed Rendering TD on feature film Inside Out 2• Complete all lightspeed tasks as well as lead sequences through entire life on show as the technical point person – write scripts, update pipelines, run reviews, make quick shot fixes across lighting, shading, compositing, animation, FX, sets, and more.• Manage rendering pipeline, monitor farm, perform farm time & memory automation, quickly resolve errors.

Emeryville, California, United States

• Lightspeed TD on feature film Elio• Perform sequence and shot optimizations, maximize render throughput, interactive speed, and quick render turn-around. • Solve technical challenges in Lighting and Compositing using Katana and Nuke. Debug intermittent problems.• Find quick solutions, clean up noise and any render artifacts such as specular flickers, crunchy dark regions, debug NaN pixels, shading issues, fog chatter, dicing pops, and more. Own sequences, and ensure final images are clean.• Enhance cloud rendering pipeline by programming the transition from OptiX to DRS denoiser, improving efficiency and preserving detail in volumes.• Implement pipeline optimization and workflow improvement projects involving custom Katana OpScripts using Lua, shelf scripts and macros using Python, and Nuke scripts using Python and TCL.

Emeryville, California, United States

• Programmed tools using Python, Qt, and C++ for set-dressing artists in Maya and Maya-Usd.• Contributed features to USD (Universal Scene Description) plugin for Autodesk Maya, maya-usd to support Maya's Universal Front-End.• Developed features in Presto, Pixar's proprietary animation software, using C++.

Glendale, California, United States

• Worked on Imagineering research projects related to AI characters and AR experiences. • Helped program procedural animation state system including visemes for dialogue, for real-time character experience using UE4 and Blueprints. • Sculpted, modeled, rigged, textured, and animated character and other assets. Wrote script, storyboarded, and created concept art.• Used TouchDesigner node graph to composite, edit, and position videos and images on screens for live show.• Performed scenes while being mocapped for character animations. • Presented project to executives during Open House research showcase.

• Worked on Battlefield Mobile as a Technical Artist intern for Industrial Toys, programming tools for artists in Unreal Engine, Maya, and general tools such as a Slackbot, primarily using Python, Qt and Blueprints Visual Scripting Language. Worked with Perforce for source control.

• Used Python3 to program features in Excavator, a pipeline tool for scanning a filesystem for information about what lives on disk and storing that information in Elasticsearch. Application queries Elasticsearch for information for artists and engineers to reference.• Wrote scripts and debugged render farm jobs (Coda), worked using Docker and Linux.• Transferred scanned information from Redis to Kafka, inserted data from Kafka into Elasticsearch.• Conducted performance testing of different message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) to identify the most suitable choice for this project, which was Kafka, and configured broker parameters to maximize efficiency • Converted project from Python2 to Python3• Attended Disgraph and participated in Circuit, Lucasfilm's Women's ERG

Greater Boston Area

• Constructed skeleton and created full-body human animations using Python, Blender’s API, and parsed data collected through marker and markerless motion capture sessions.• Automated systems to clean up large amounts of mocap data - for example an automated system that uses camera frustum information, far and near clipping planes, 3D marker data, and RGB video pixel locations of markers to auto-label the unlabeled marker trajectories.• Calculated vectors and matrices related to position and rotation quaternions in 3D space, performed calibrations, projected rays, manipulated cameras and rigid bodies. • Wrote post-processing software to create fluid pipeline converting across different data file formats.

• Create 3D models, produce clean UV maps, shade with custom textures and complete all aspects of 3D asset creation for companies that implement AR experiences.

Greater Boston Area

• Designed UX and implemented UI using ReactJS as part of Agile team for website of client Nomix, a medical company based in Boston that connects patients with ideal clinical trials. • Added E-commerce functionality to the website• Established the identity, branding, instructions, and packaging for client’s product.• Closely communicated with experienced backend and algorithm developers to provide an intuitive web experience for patients of all backgrounds.

Jersey City

• Used ReactJS, Redux, Node, and Express to develop the front-end user interface of a Credit Risk application, Distribute, which facilitates the transfer of data.• Collaborated on an Agile team of experienced developers and designers creating a new website application approaching UAT. • Built and designed 10+ features on the front-end and wrote functionality in the API. • Implemented tests, participated in code review.

Northeastern University

• Taught Computer Science, Math, English, and History to local AP students enrolled in the Youth Initiative Development Project.