OBJECTIVE |
| Obtain employment as a technical director in a production environment which is motivated and provides an environment to learn new skills and improve work quality. |
EXPERIENCE |
| Rhythm & Hues Studios El Segundo, CAAug 11 - Present |
| FX Development TD |
- I currently work in the FX Development Group
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| CIS VFX Group Vancouver, BCJul 09 - Aug 09 |
| Technical Director / Pipeline IT Coordinator |
- Site specific tools for automated shot and asset conversion for Invictus.
- Improved design and efficiency of sprite based crowd system.
- I helped create a new system which automatically optimized sprite rendering, as well as significantly reduced cooking time through attribute manipulation.
- Python geometry asset optimization and asset creation/support.
- I rewrote existing assets to increase speed as well as created various new artist tools.
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| Side Effects Software Inc. Toronto, ONNov 06 - Aug 08 |
| Technical Director / Product Specialist |
- Advanced Tool Development
- I created interactive tools that enhanced Houdini's physical simulation capabilities: geometry fracturing and workflow, as well as particle and particle fluid effects.
- I developed Auto Rig character tools with motion capture support. These easy to use tools involved significant viewport interactivity as well as on the fly digital asset and parameter creation.
- Helped to maintain and improve existing Python modules and scripts.
- Community
- Presented training classes at Siggraph and Side Effects Software events.
- FX animation for various demos and client presentations.
- Answering python and tool development questions for support and on the forums.
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EDUCATION |
| Santa Monica CollegeAug 08 - June 11 |
| Associates Degree - Computer Science |
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| Vancouver Film SchoolJun 06 - Oct 06 |
| Houdini Certification + Nuke |
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| Vancouver Film SchoolSept 03 - Aug 04 |
| Diploma - 3D Animation and Visual Effects - Visual Effects stream |
SKILLS |
| Software - Houdini, Nuke, AfterEffects, Photoshop, Illustrator |
| Languages - Python, Hscript, Unix, C++, Java, PHP, Javascript, MySQL |
| Hardware - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |