Ollie Thomas Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Character & creature animator for TV and FilmShows:- Lost Ollie - TV/Netflix- Life on our planet - TV/Netflix (not yet released)- Napoleon- Film (not yet released)- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - Film- The Marvels - Film (not yet released)

• Volunteer animation tutor
• Coaching students enrolled in Animation Mentor on the principles of animation.
• Helping students to understand their mentor notes and assignment goals.
• Providing notes for students on their current assignment to help push the performances.

London, England, United Kingdom

Character & creature animator for filmShow: - The Matrix Resurrections

London, England, United Kingdom

Character animator for VR filmShow: - Glimpse - VR award winning short film

Dubai

Leading the delivery of Service Design and Digital Factory projects. Responsible for all delivery elements from conception to realisation.

Holborn

Shows:- Mowgli - Film/Netflix- Alita: Battle Angel - Film - Pokemon: Detective Pikachu -Film- The Secret Garden -Film

London, England, United Kingdom

• Coaching students enrolled in Animation Mentor on the principles of animation.
• Helping students to understand their mentor notes and assignment goals.
• Providing notes for students on their current assignment to help push the performances.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Dubai

• Key responsibilities:
• End to end digital program delivery (PRINCE II, Scrum practiced)
• Risk Management and documentation
• Governance modelling
• RACI creation and control
• Financial management; monthly & yearly forecasting, reporting, resource management (internal & 3rd party) and change request generation

Dubai - Media City

• Key responsibilities:
• End to end project delivery (Waterfall, Scrum & Kanban principles practiced)
• Financial management of retainer and campaign based activity: monthly & yearly forecasting / margin & revenue reporting / resource management (internal & 3rd party) / quotation, invoice and change request generation
• Facilitation: sprint planning / estimating sessions / retrospectives / workshops / triage
• Pitch preparation, documentation & presentation (RFT & RFP)
• Project documentation: scope of work / change / status report / budget tracker

Mediacityuk, Salford Quays

• Key responsibilities:
• End to end project delivery: Scrum / Kanban / Lean principles
• Test management: regression / smoke / edge case / unit / BDD / TDD
• Facilitation: sprint planning / estimating sessions / retrospectives / workshops / triage
• RAID management: risks / assumptions / issues / dependencies
• Iterative project planning: resource / time / scope / budget

Manchester

• Key responsibilities:
• End to end project delivery (agile & traditional)
• UX planning & research including wireframe and sitemap creation
• User story & task management: Jira / Pivotal Tracker / Redmine
• Project planning i.e. resource, time, scope, budget, risk, issues etc.
• Internal / external stakeholder management

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Key responsibilities:
• End to end project delivery (traditional)
• Key point of contact for The Co-operative Group
• Stakeholder management / reporting
• Project planning i.e. resource, time, scope, budget, risk, issues etc.
• Strategic campaign planning

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Key responsibilities:
• Key point of contact for The Co-operative Financial Services and GE Capital
• Presenting creative / workshops
• Managing and developing the Account Management team
• Planning / resourcing
• Forecasting / billing / reporting

Bath, United Kingdom

• Key responsibilities:
• Planning and scheduling various client’s activity through National media (circa 10m inserts per quarter)
• Internal / external stakeholder management
• Studio management
• Timing plans, production estimates and image purchasing
• Supporting Client Services Director with pitches

Games Animation

Online animation course: Animating convincing character cycles with weight and personality to keep gameplay engaging Learning the key.

3D Character Animation

Animation Mentor is an online animation school teaching advanced character animation principles and techniques.

Bachelor'S Degree, Animation Ba (Hons), 2:2

BA (hons) Animation

Diploma In Art Foundation, Graphic Design