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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Boise, Idaho, United States

Boise, Idaho Area

Full stack engineer, working with Python, and ES6 Javascript, and the AWS cloud. Specific technologies include React and SASS for front end, AWS Sam, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway etc with Django and wagtail for the backend.

Boise, Idaho Area

Was the lead developer on the new Balihoo platform front end application. Originally implementation in scala with the play framework and then completely re-written in Coffeescript and Angular running on node.jsImplemented local websites (working typically from a photoshop comp, and developing the css, html and php/javascript backend code) while with the creative department for large companies such as Jostens, and Aflac.Developed the companies 'creative framework' written in PHP, allowing local websites templates to be executed and tested simply and easily.

Boise, Idaho Area

Developed custom websites for many clients, and also subcontracting for numerous other design firms. Typically taking a website from a photoshop comp, all the way to finished CMS implementation. Also developed several large custom backends in various languages, for example, Santa Monica Little league, had a complete player and score tracking system implemented in Ruby on Rails, and National Association of Canine Scentworkers entire management system, including member management and registration, dog management, trial creation and result keeping, course creation and course progress tracking, custom written in PHP

Santa Monica, California

Worked for a short time as a freelancer on Night at the Museum 2, using Maya to develop the effect for the ships that move in the paintings in the museum. Used cloth simulation to animate the sails.

Some notable areas include developing a fireball system in Maya for use on Dinosaur as the supervising effects animator to allow non-animators to edit/create and animate fireballs and supervising its use on the movie; developing a painterly cloud rendering solution using Renderman used on various projects; senior technical director of look development on My Peoples, developing novel uses for hair rendering, such as corn silk, battery cables and bristles for use on heavily stylized folk art characters; designing and implementing the disintegration effect used on Chicken Little and hand animating a lightning effect on Bolt Credits:BoltGlago's GuestMeet the RobinsonsChicken LittleMy Peoples/A Few Good Ghosts (at Florida Studio)Brother Bear (at Florida Studio)Return to NeverlandKangaroo JackWonderful World of Disney OpeningWildlifeMission to Mars (at DreamQuest)Dinosaur

Some notable accomplishments include developing a volumetric hair renderer (one of the first uses of cg hair in a movie) plugin for Mental Ray for Island of Doctor Moreau, lead digital artist for Seargeant Bilk, Shader supervisor for Fifth Element, responsible for creating and supervising all shaders written for the show (except the 'Evil effect'), and developing shaders for a cg penguin for an Oldsmobile commercial.Credits:JVC/Victor Imagination, CommercialOldsmobile Penguin, CommercialFifth ElementThe Island of Doctor MoreauSergeant BilkoStrange DaysApollo 13

Farnbourough, England

Sponsored by the Ministry of Defence, and worked here during summers while attending University. Work was classified.