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Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Cutting Edge is a VFX producer for Feature Films, TV Shows, and TVC's. As a core member of the Pipeline team I work with supervisors and artists to determine the tools they need, and develop the many systems that support the pipeline.On a day to day basis I designed and built on the integrations of Digital Content Creation packages (DCC’s) that enforce workflows and allow the organisation to scale across multiple sites.Some interesting longer-term objectives I worked towards were prototyping USD into the pipeline to allow the company to scale to industry-standard, converting environment management to Rez, and investigating the application of big data and machine learning via (google) cloud technologies to data-driven workflows.• Built integrated management and visualisation tools for the Distributed Render Clusters - allows staff to answer their own questions about their farm jobs, reducing support load dramatically.• Introduced the Breakdown – a data driven concept learned from industry research - to the pipeline, which opened up scale and automation of “Sequence Lighting” automation out of the DCC’s.• Introduced the Gaffer Framework into the pipeline, which enabled rapid development of specific pipeline tools and processes such as automated turntables.• Built an event system that triggers from Shotgun and synchronizes data to the filesystem and related datastores, which then flows into the DCC’s and other downstream processes. Technically this enforces data consistency and saves downstream staff from doing busywork.• Created a cross-platform Environment Management tool enabling artists to manage their software environments via a UI, automating the mirroring of the network environment on a remote machine, allowing the organisation to scale up the use of remote workers.

Sydney, Australia

Pipeline development and IT Production Systems for the feature films 'SFv1 : The Osiris Child' and 'Safe Neighbourhood'.At such a small facility I wore many hats in this role, from Linux administration of artist workstations, renderfarm management and wrangling, developing and enhancing the production pipeline between all relevant applications, determining how to make applications work as advertised, and enhancing their functionality with bespoke python extensions and scripting.Some of the highlights being :* DCC applications integrated with FTrack and Deadline for smooth artist workflow* Developed a 2D Element library developed for asset discovery by Nuke artists* Created numerous cloud assets via Vue for SFv1* Performed Photogrammetry and asset modelling from props* Performed system admin functions across primarily Centos workstations, Ubuntu servers, and a handful of OSX and Windows systems.

Sydney, Australia

A Digital Marketing technology company specialising in solutions for Digital Media Agencies and Publishers.• Chief-architect of a system-wide, all-layers redesign to enable features previously impossible to implement• Technical lead on an industry-first “Automated Guaranteed” system - an automation of system interaction and workflows of digital media between the flagship “Symphony” and “Adslot Publisher” products• Introduced Microservices to the Reporting System, and following this acknowledged success split more systems off the monolithic application allowing for faster development and deployment• Developed a bespoke Proxy Server for installation into leading Bank clients that secured the organisations from javascript attacks via adtag hacking

Sydney, Australia

Created a Player Management system for the football club used by the Coach and Trainers that tracks player vital statistics over time to determine fitness for play and future hires, weighted by a custom algorithm.Achievements - following this the client broke a 43 year old drought in the Finals. You're welcome, Rabbitohs fans.

Sydney, Australia

My brand for Software Consulting, Development, and personal projects.• Developed a "prop" Windows/OSX application to simulate computer hacking for use in a film production.• Developing an iPhone and iPad app based around Film Cameras with a Cinematographer.• Contracted to create a custom player management solution for South Sydney Rabbitohs, a football organisation.• Released 6 apps for the Windows Phone and Windows 8 Stores under this banner.

Brisbane, Australia

A start-up based around managing your personal geographic data in a social manner.• Developed attention-grabbing 3D interactive visualisation demonstrated at SxSW• Presented at the 2012 SxSW Festival Tradeshow, generating users and partner leads• Architect on the Windows Phone 8/Windows 8 solution, to be developed once funding is available• Involved with product vision and marketing of the brand. • Official director/producer of online video content.

Sydney, Australia

Australia’s largest Live Performance Management and Ticketing company.• Responsible for Architecture and supervising implementation on the Ticketek iPhone app and passbook integration• Day-to-day I was across ongoing projects in an architectural overview, problem solving, and coding capacities• Responsible for prototyping future-thinking projects and concepts• Solved a major performance issue in a workflow tool that had been unsolved for 2 years, with minor experience in the technology, reducing a 45 second render to around 3 seconds• Invented an automatic scanning system using Computer Vision software for modelling venues that removed human error and reduced an hours long manual task to around 10 seconds

Sydney, Australia

A product development company providing document management and workflow tools.• Responsible for design and specification of new products/features, developing prototypes, scoping and estimates, communicating technical vision/details to developers and stakeholders• Technical lead on 5 of the 6 products for the company, including the flagship product pdfDocs• Took 2 products from proof-of-concept to release, within overlapping timeframes• Prototyped, designed, and implemented the flexible and reusable “Workspace model” – the MVC backbone of all products. Executed the full vision in 4 planned phases over 3 years to keep the products in a stable and sellable state

Sydney, Australia

(Promoted, see above)

Sydney, Australia

(Promoted, see above)

Brisbane, Australia

A Software Engineering company that specialises in internet-based software applications and web solutions• Developed and maintained bespoke client systems and public websites, primarily servicing eCommerce needs.

Brisbane, Australia

A small business started by myself and other university students, making websites for local businesses.

Microbudget Film Producing, Screenwriting, Screenwriting, Producing

Bachelor Of Information Technology, Hons (1St)

Honours Project was in evaluating 3D Game Engines to build a simulation that represented psychosis

Film And Television Production