Rainmaker Entertainment

Technical Animator (Barbie, Escape From Planet Earth)

• Build & test cloth rigs
• Develop and maintain cloth pipeline scripts and tools
• Shot finaling

CIS Vancouver

Technical Animator (Clint Eastwood's "Invictus")

• Develop procedural nCloth pipeline for crowds being rendered in Houdini
• Automation of character assembly, nCloth simulation, geometry caching, and delivery of simulated geometry to production pipeline
• Collaborate with 3D leads from Layout, Animation, Modeling, Texturing, Rigging and Pipeline disciplines to ensure geometry and rigs being delivered meet production needs

Rainmaker Entertainment

Technical Animator

• Build & test cloth, hair and ribbon rigs to be applied and cached by animators
• Develop and maintain cloth pipeline scripts and tools
• Fix problematic shots

Vancouver Film School

Teaching Assistant, 3D Animation and Visual Effects

• Provide support for 3D animation and visual effects instructors
• Assist students with their assignments and final projects
• Provide character rigs to support animation assignments

Surf and Destroy Corp.

President

• Provide web design and development services for entrepreneurs
• Usability analysis and consultation

CodeBaby

Senior Design Technologist

• Act as liason between art, marketing, quality assurance and development teams
• Train employees and clients to implement CodeBaby productions using 3ds max and proprietary software
• Develop the CodeBaby JavaScript library and implement coding standards
• Implement and maintain version control systems for production assets and train artists to use them
• Design user interfaces for proprietary software
• Research and development, rapid prototyping

Iomer Internet Solutions

Digital Media Designer

• Design all web, UI and preprint content
• Develop Flash animations, components, and advertisements
• Integrate and develop HTML layouts
• Create custom content management systems
• Rapid prototyping for both online and offline proposals

Strathcom Media

Web Designer

• Design and develop websites from concept to completion
• Train other designers to use Flash, ActionScript, JavaScript & CSS
• 3d modeling and animation for various images and Flash elements

Vancouver Film School

3D Animation & Visual Effects Diploma

• Completed a 1 year immersive training program, culminating in a short film project created in Softimage XSI

Grande Prairie Regional College

Visual Arts Diploma in Interactive Digital Design

• Studied drawing, design, 2D and 3D digital imagery, electronic publishing, music technology, biology, computer science and art history

CGSociety

"Character Rigging in Maya Workshop" with Todd Widup

VanArts

"Animation Master Class" with Andrew Gordon

CGSociety

"Lighting and Rendering in Maya" with Jeremy Birn

FXPHD

"Introduction to Nuke" by Sean Devereaux (View Certificate)

"Introduction to Shake" by Tahl Niran (View Certificate)

Various courses in Nuke, Houdini, Realflow, Massive, Renderman

CGSociety

"Mechanical Rigging in Maya" with Todd Widup

CGSociety

"Technical Direction in XSI with Python" with Raffaele Fragapane

• Experience working in Windows, Mac, Linux and mixed networked environments
• Advanced knowledge of Maya, XSI, Adobe Creative Suite
• Intermediate knowledge of Nuke, Shake, Houdini, Realflow
• Proficient with Python, MEL, Pymel, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, PHP

Adobe Certified Professional, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Developer (April 2004)

2006 Vancouver Film School Roadshow Scholarship Recipient >