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Chennai, Tn, In

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

● Overseeing the workload of Producers and Associate Producers, providing guidance on project assignments.● Evaluating the capabilities of teams in India and advocating for potential work with home sites.● Managing the bidding process for new business opportunities.● Managing all projects related to home sites, offering support and guidance to Producers and Associate Producers.● Taking a proactive approach to solving problems in home site projects.● Addressing and resolving crisis situations across home sites.● Collaborating with the Head of Production (HOP) to develop training plans.● Assessing resource availability and allocation within the business unit and the broader group.● Understanding the outsourcing workflow and sharing ownership with HOPs.● Ensuring compliance with Best Practices.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

● Responsible for managing all aspects of a show, liaising with the global team throughout.● Work closely with the Sups to bid work, helping the team define clear milestones for the delivery of assets, shots, temps, and finals. ● Anticipate deadline challenges and discuss those with creative department heads and managers and takes down advice accordingly to implement. ● Maintaining all the data related to the man-days budget vs actuals and any other details related to artist man-days with respect to the project execution.● Manage schedules and tracks regular progress through the departments involved making sure meet internal and external targets.● Make sure the show runs within the budget and publish reports to the Leadership team.● Builds support & refines working relationships with all global production & creative staff.● Work closely with artists & leads to track down the daily reviews & feedback.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Responsible for the successful bidding, production, and management of virtual production projects.• Manages and tracks cost efficiency of individual projects.• Project management and allocation of resources on projects including liaising with studios.• Updating deadlines, assets, milestones, and partners on project management tools and trackers to maintain clarity and ensure perfect deliveries of conceptual assets in our fast-paced environment. • Supporting strategists on test initiatives. Understanding, reviewing, and capturing results from creative image testing to help synthesize and place them into relevant post-launch reports and presentations. • Supporting and developing systems and processes that maximize team members' productivity.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Works with the supervisory team to assess the original scope of work and all creative iterative changes time to time, schedule, and budget perspective.• Anticipate special project requirements (software, hardware, space) and ensure needs are communicated.• Work with the Executive Producer, Head of Production and Supervisors to ensure quality standards and protocols are adhered to.• Produce projects within approved budget and deadlines.• Supporting and developing systems & processes that maximize team members' productivity.• Manages day-to-day operations of the show within the facility, including overseeing the DPM, VFX Coordinators and other members of the production staff.• In concert with the Production Management team, produce and maintain and communicate show schedules, ensuring the delivery roadmap is clear, making adjustments as the project evolves.• Manages the overall timely information flow within the show and between the show and facility.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Autonomous scheduling and tasking, prioritizing and tracking deadlines across multiple projects, maintaining creative cohesion in task assignments across multiple projects simultaneously.• Work closely with the project leads and Department heads to crew shows appropriately.• Work closely with the VFX Producer to guarantee proper management and execution of projects within the schedule and budget.• Manage crew with regards to project schedules, including oversight of crew hours, overtime and vacation. • Oversee project coordinator duties.• Managed team of 80+ artists including Production.• Securing appropriate talent to facilitate efficient workflow to satisfy client requirements.• Maximize utilization in department, forecast feature requirements and ensure smooth running of all projects.• Quickly & efficiently managing resource request by project information.• Developed empowering employee culture focused on equipping employees to independently meet client needs.• Kept employee workloads fair and balanced to achieve objectives while maintaining high job satisfaction.• Cultivated positive rapport with fellow employees to boost company morale and promote employee retention.

Bangalore

• Maintain studio-wide resource utilization overview on a daily basis across all creative departments and ensure this is visible to Production Manager and the Studio head.• Assist Executive Producers in creating the initial project plan and determining resource requirements within the project milestone dates.• Resource multiple projects of at a time on global scale over multiple time zones.• Strategize quickly to provide the best scheduling options for Executive Producers.• Assigning the skilled resource to successfully accomplish goals.• Conduct weekly meetings with production manager, heads of cg / head of 2D to review current resource assignments and future tasks to ensure efficiencies are in place and there are no conflicts or concerns.• Supported Producers who need artists available for quotes, client calls and meetings and chasing for treatments.• Point of contact for the artist related issues & leave approvals.• Planning cross training programs along with 2D/3D supervisors.

Chennai Area, India

• Mastered roto techniques, including manual, motion-blur and defocus.• Applied deep understanding of 2D and 3D tracking to improve continuity throughout project.• Created realistic hair and fur details for projects.• Took on complex, challenging projects, including Sanandreas, Chappie, Batman vs Superman,Pan.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics And Special Effects, First Class

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