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Battlestar Galactica Visual Effects, The Plan I am responsible for ensuring quality of renders and maintaining the constant rendering from our farm. I created minorsupport elements used in other artist's animations. I am relied on as the team's troubleshooter and provide timelysolutions to maintain our delivery schedule.CG Artist - Battlestar Galactica Visual Effects, Season Four 6/2008-3/2009I created several establishing shots and battle elements used in my own as well as other artist's animations. I wasrelied on as the team's troubleshooter and provide timely solutions to maintain our delivery schedule. I provided R&Don several applications we were evaluating to be included in our pipeline. I managed a small team of junior artists incontrol of shot breakout and rendering.CG Artist - Battlestar Galactica Visual Effects, Razor 2/2008-5/2008I created several establishing shots and battle elements used in my own as well as other artist's animations. Icollaborated on the creation of some of the visual effects specific to the shots for the show. I provided R&D onseveral applications we were evaluating to be included in our pipeline. I managed a small team of junior artists incontrol of shot breakout and rendering. I was relied on as the team's troubleshooter and provide timely solutions tomaintain our delivery schedule.

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I created several establishing shots and battle elements used in my own as well as other artist’s animations. I wasrelied on as the team’s troubleshooter and provide timely solutions to maintain our delivery schedule. I provided R&Don several applications we were evaluating to be included in our pipeline. I managed a small team of junior artists incontrol of shot breakout and rendering.

I was lead environmental artist responsible for creating many of the shots used in replacing green screen to createcomputer generated virtual environments. I led a small team of artists responsible for all of the green screenenvironment shots. I was called on to pioneer the use of Vue as the primary 3D package used for the elements of theenvironments. I provided R&D on Vue and its integration with LightWave and our render farm and was crucial to itsability to be added in our pipeline. I managed a small team of junior artists in control of shot breakout and rendering. Iwas relied on as the team's troubleshooter and provide timely solutions to maintain our delivery schedule.CG Artist - Battlestar Galactica Visual Effects, Second half of Season Three 2/2007-9/2007I created several establishing shots, action shots, and battle elements used in my own as well as other artist'sanimations. I collaborated on the creation of some of the visual effects specific to the shots for the show. I providedR&D on several applications we were evaluating to be included in our pipeline. I managed control of shot breakoutand rendering as well as maintain our rendering farm which included, but was not limited to, installation of newhardware and software. I was relied on as the team's troubleshooter and provide timely solutions to maintain ourdelivery schedule.

I created a few shots and several support elements. I collaborated on the creation of some of the visual effectsspecific to the shots for the show. I provided R&D assistance to integrating the Syflex plug-in to be included in ourpipeline. I managed control of shot breakout and rendering as well as maintained our rendering farm which included,but was not limited to, installation of new hardware and software. I was relied on as the team's troubleshooter andprovided timely solutions to maintain our delivery schedule.Jr. CG Artist - Battlestar Galactica Visual Effects, First half of Season Three 5/2006-2/2007I created several establishing shots, action shots, and battle elements used in my own as well as other artist'sanimations. I collaborated on the creation of some of the visual effects specific to the shots for the show. I was theLightWave point of contact for the group and was in charge of evaluating and maintaining current beta builds forimplementation into our pipeline. I managed shot breakout and rendering and maintained our rendering farm whichincluded, but was not limited to, installation of new hardware and software. I was relied on as the team'stroubleshooter and provided timely solutions to maintain our delivery schedule.SkillsLightWave 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premier, Adobe Encore, Boujou, Vue, currently expanding mylearning of ZBrush, MudBox, and Maya

3D Efects And Animation

A.A.S; B.A.S, Cad Technology; Cad Technology

in Virtual Reality Development

Education record

Occupational Associates, Digital Animation

and Visual Effects Focus in LightWave 3D and Adobe products