Kevin Picott Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Running the OmniGraph Developer Experience team - working to make using OmniGraph both simple and powerful.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

As perhaps the single most knowledgeable developer working on the Maya product, holding 4 patents on the evaluation engine code, made many contributions to the evolution of the software that helped extend its lifespan upwards of 25 years.Most recently worked on the Maya product as part of the Animation team responsible for the revitalizing of the evaluation engine, accelerating playback speeds tenfold.

After 8 years of volunteering on the parade committee I took over the parade as my primary responsibility and became a member of the festival board. The festival attracts ~190,000 people to the Burlington waterfront every Father's Day weekend, running since 1980. The parade has over 50 units including 27 bands from Canada and the USA, the largest of which has over 180 members.

Tournament Manager for the annual CTF Provincial Youth Championships and the Southern Ontario rotation of the CTF National Youth Championships (2004, 2010). Responsible for gathering entries, budgeting, arranging for transportation, hotel, facilities, special events, tournament rules, etc. for youth bowlers aged 9-21. Approximately 400-500 attend the provincial round from all over Southern Ontario, 64 attend the national round, 8 per provincial zone, from all over Canada.

Toronto, Canada Area

Technical lead for new product and technology investigations.

Team leader/manager of the development team responsible for creation of versions 1-2 of the Alias Sketchbook Pro product. Team varied in size from 4-7, including contractor. On occasion took responsibility for broader project details.

Long term technology research and investigation, technical patent expert, programming for special projects.

Primary inventor and architect of the Maya dependency graph.

Architect responsible first for revival of PowerAnimator V4 animation, then investigation and development of Maya architecture.

Developed new lighting models for rendering, linear and area lights, published in "Computer Graphics and Applications".

Programmer on special project for developing Highlight and Curvature rendering styles for automobile industry.