Merten Stroetzel Email & Phone Number

Worldwide

Venice, California

Researching emerging technologies (AR/VR) and market trends to provide Autodesk with potential directions for the future of making things.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Autodesk Consulting delivers world-class consulting services that help leading companies across diverse industries quickly adopt and realize value from Autodesk technology. Our Visualization Solutions help automotive and manufacturing companies easily deliver on-demand, fully immersive, photorealistic, 3D visualizations that can accelerate design workflows, project approvals, and consumer purchasing decisions.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Autodesk Consulting, Media & Entertainment.

Director Worldwide Services Softimage/Avid, managing 3 teams: Special Projects Team, Professional Services (Los Angeles/Montreal), customer consulting & development services - production process analysis & optimization, collaboration solution planning, statement of work preparation, implementation and project management for custom developments. Product Support Team (Montreal), Softimage experts located in Montreal and India providing customer support on installation, tool usage and production pipeline questions over telephone and email. Sales Support Team (Montreal), this team is in charge of managing and controlling all license and purchase related requests from the internal sales team, resellers and customers.

Customer Consulting & Development Services - production process analysis & optimization, collaboration solution planning, statement of work preparation, implementation and project management for custom developments. Setup and training services - IT architecture planning, installation, project setup, training for users, project managers and IT managers Successfully supported large 3D production pipeline implementations. Walt Disney Feature Animation (Burbank, CA) 2005, implementation and rolled out of asset library for all 3D content. Digital Domain (Venice, CA), studio wide asset library for 3D content in 2004, game/film pipeline consulting and development services for project wide Softimage XSI adoption in 2008. Warner Bros (Burbank, CA) 2008, film pipeline consulting and development services for 3D animation project. Technical Pre Sales – presentations, pre-sales consulting, solution selling, RFI/RFP preparation, supporting evaluations, developing showcase solutions

Vice President Technical Services Worldwide, management of studio wide asset management implementation projects for customers in the computer graphics entertainment industry. Large projects included Atari in 2001, Electronic Arts worldwide in early 2002.Relocation to the US in May 2002, expanding the US professional services team providing pre-sales support and professional services for customers in the entertainment industry.CG feature market entry with Alienbrain VFX. Management of large asset- and production management implementations in the computer games and CG feature industry. These included Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Lucas Arts, Pixar and Sony Pictures Imageworks. Asian market entry in 2002 – Hiring and training Japanese consultants, several pre-sales and consulting trips to the largest Japanese game studios.Research, purchase and final implementation of a globally used support issue tracking and escalation system.

Executive CTO (co-founder and partner), responsible for the strategy, conception and development of all software development projects, for hard and software investments and for the operation of the production platform.Concept and design of the CyberProfit Cash-Machine (micro portal) system architecture. Invention and patenting of a tracking and personalization procedure for selective content transmission.System Design – Multi Tier Client/Server micro portal architecture based on COM/DCOM/COM+ technology. Design and development of a content management framework for the CyberProfit micro portal platform.Human Resource Management – gradual staffing of the CyberProfit development department up to 12 internal software engineers. Management of additional external development resources.

CTO (co-founder and partner), responsible for the internal Planet 33 application and data base development (fax-over-IP billing system) and for the conception and implementation of external projects.Design and development of the Planet33 multi-service billing and customer management system for voice and fax-over-IP of services.Implementation and operation of the European fax-over-IP production platform of Fax2Net (Share Media Inc.)

Development Engineer/Project Manager within the area electronic payment systems (Point of Sale of Systems, Electronic Funds Transfer and Clearing Systems) Development of a cash card payment module with final approval of the German ZKA authorities (micro controller controlled chip and magnetic card reader, implementation in C and assembler) Concept and development of an ISDN host system for public multimedia payphones (C++ / Visual Basic)Project Management for a mobile, PC-based card payment system for Lufthansa Airlines (implementation of the GSM data transfer components, development of the terminal software)