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Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Engineered Open-USD pipeline, rendered shots, and lead team of artists to supplement stop-motion footage with CG characters. Adopted Rocky 9 Linux platform. Scaled company to include remote hires from Canada.

United States

Trained artists on best practices for finishing shots with CG characters. Documented workflows and scripted tools. Adopted new industry standard Open-USD technology. Championed a scalable pipeline for shots with thousands of characters.

Oregon, United States

Worked to impassion people about the beneficial uses of virtual reality. Established channels to discuss VR for fitness, physical therapy, professional collaboration, youth and senior integration, skill-building.

Santa Monica, California, United States

Provided engineering support for advertising and special projects. Integrated Flame and AWS for cloud-bursting.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Configured software environments, scripted tools and supported crew in a fast-paced, global, agile environment. Balanced pipeline between advertising, special projects, feature films.

Adelaide, Australia

Mentored junior artists, animated and simulated characters and provided techniques for running shots. Scripted new pipeline tools

Vancouver, Canada Area

Rigged characters and ran simulations for hair, cloth, muscle, and skin. Sculpted final meshes for lighting and rendering. Worked with supervisors to create new tools and provided support for the pipeline in a global environment. Trained junior artists and pipeline crew.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Configured software environments and supported shows. Contributed to documentation and knowledge-base and mentored incoming artists. Scripted new tools and provided support for existing software stack.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Expanded company into a global environment while maintaining ownership of the render farm. Beta-tested Deadline 6.

Santa Monica, CA

Supported artists and technical operations team. Monitored and responded to help-desk and ticket system.

Los Angeles, CA

Took ownership of the render farm and participated in all aspects including racking and stacking servers, scripting tools for administration of the network and software, and responding to all operations including 24/7 on-call support.

Burbank, CA

Beta-tested Mocha Pro and created new planar-tracking roto techniques. Created CG environments, particle effects and physics simulations. Trained team of roto/paint artists.

Burbank, CA

Used various techniques and technologies to convert films from 2D to 3D.

Los Angeles, CA

Helped build studio from ground up, focusing on the render farm. Assembled servers, workstations, data center. Monitored render queue and provided support and troubleshooting. Responded to help desk needs and trained artists.

Culver City

Identified, reported and found solutions to technical rendering needs.

Santa Monica, CA

Worked with artists and producers in order to forecast reasonable deadlines and delivery schedules and optimized scene files.

Burbank, CA

Took ownership of the stereoscopic 3D theater systems including client screenings, dailies, stereoscopic 3d final approval. Moved data as needed to and from clients and in-house artists.

Corvallis, OR

Kept customers happy and employees accountable. Stepped in to fill any position necessary in order to keep the business running like a well-oiled machine.

Washington, United States

Attached to experimental Stryker brigade. Trained teams of snipers and developed new tactics for emerging conflicts overseas.

Washington, United States

Specialized in field operations, communications, reconnaissance and jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.

Bachelors Of Science, Game Art + Design

Learned to create modern video games from scratch including writing initial game design documents and creating characters and environments.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Boy Scouts, track, cross-country, football, baseball, wrestling, Habitat for Humanity.Learned to create an.