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Connecticut, United States

Overseeing technical production needs, with an emphasis on rendering, optimization, and pipeline tools.

Emeryville, California, United States

Technical Lead for the lighting department, managing a team for the quality, optimization, and correctness of our rendering software on films such as Toy Story 4, Turning Red, and Elemental. - Monitored inefficiencies, developed solutions, and trained teams of artists to streamline working with terrabytes of data and 90,000 core computer clusters.- Helped pioneer machine learning processes for the implementation, testing, tuning, and debugging of our image denoiser in the production pipeline, ultimately increasing rendering efficiency by over 300%.- Developed tools in C++ and Python for a complex graphics pipeline, enabling both artists and engineers to submit and manage large data rulesets with flexibility and ease.

Emeryville, Ca

Worked as a Technical Director in the lighting department, overseeing rendering and graphics pipeline needs on films such as Toy Story 3, Inside Out, and Incredibles 2.

Provo, Utah Area

Developed automated installation procedures for physical and virtual servers in a large datacenter, focusing primarily on Red Hat Linux and VMWare. Monitoring and programming for Nagios. Server support for development teams.

Producer of 3 senior films, as well as Technical Director for pipeline and rendering tools.