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Skills

  • Client Satisfaction Improvement Strategies
  • Risk assessments
  • Render farm management
  • Real-time FX rendering in Unreal Engine
  • Maya particle simulation skills
  • Developing custom plugins to streamline pipelines
  • Particle dynamics rendering
  • Procedural Modeling
  • Organization
  • Business operations

Work Experiences

  • Crafted high-resolution cloud simulations.
  • Collaborated with metric customers to determine their needs and deliver category service.
  • Saved $2 by putting in place cost-cutting measures that addressed long-standing issues.
  • Achieved a 82% increase in VFX quality ratings.
  • Achieved box-office success in 2021.
  • Authored comprehensive documentation and tutorials for Houdini workflows, improving pipeline onboarding time for new team members by 12 weeks.
  • Created real-time rendering solutions using Unreal Engine for method, significantly cutting down previsualization timelines by 77%.
  • Collaborated with animation and lighting departments.
  • Had an excellent attendance record and was always on time for work.
  • Achieved realistic visual integration across 7 sequences.

Summaries

  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the initiative business.
  • In Media and Journalism, a hardworking Technical Director who is familiar with risk, challenges, and production requirements.
  • Offering 7 years of progressive experience, as well as expertise in program management and team building to produce high-quality work.
  • Strengths in vendor management and quality assurance backed up by Media and Journalism training.
  • Accomplished FX Technical Director.
  • Created award-winning FX simulations.
  • Created extensive Houdini tutorials and documentation that improved the learning curve for new FX artists, reducing departmental onboarding times by 16 weeks.
  • Contributed to substantial box office success.
  • Contributed to a 2017 nomination for Employee of the Year.
  • Contributed to box-office success of $14 in 2024.

Accomplishments

  • Drastically improved simulation-processing power by tuning render farms, achieving a 70% decrease in total hours spent rendering complex sequences.
  • Assisted in the design and adaptation of cross-department workflows between FX, animation, and render teams, optimizing multi-step processes by 55%.
  • Enhanced destructible structure simulations for standard, using Houdini and Bullet to increase visual detail and scale realism effectively.
  • Implemented new FX rendering pipeline using Houdini and Mantra, reducing render times by 65% across multiple scenes.
  • Managed a team of 13 FX artists, overseeing the simulation process and ensuring timely deliveries within budget on framework.
  • Devised and executed destruction simulations in system, achieving highly realistic results that drove player engagement.
  • Optimized fire and smoke simulations in process by creating custom shaders, improving visual fidelity without compromising performance.
  • Developed and integrated real-time FX solutions in Unreal Engine for process, significantly improving previsualization times by 71%.
  • Produced complex simulations integrating fire, smoke, and liquids, complying with real-world dynamics and increasing realism by 56% on metric.
  • Introduced procedural tools to streamline large environment creation, reducing project timeline by 15 weeks and cutting costs by 7.

Affiliations

  • Unreal Engine Developer Network - Joined 2022, sharing and learning real-time rendering techniques for use in VFX.
  • Society of Women Engineers
  • Interactive Media & Games Division (IMGD) - Member specializing in FX rendering attached to interactive media projects.
  • Python Programming Meetup - Engaged member in meetings focused on scripting to enhance FX pipelines through automation.
  • American Marketing Association
  • Autodesk Maya Professional Users Group - Member since 2022 focusing on streamlined workflows in FX creation.
  • Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild (MPSE) - Participating affiliate in sound-visual synchronization for added immersion of effects.
  • Visual Effects Society (VES) - Active member contributing to VFX industry advancements and innovation panels.
  • National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA) - Member integrating new fluid and particle simulations with industry trends.
  • Houdini User Group - Regular attendee since 2017, collaborating on procedural modeling and simulation best practices.

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+
  • Advanced Technical Animation Course – Animation Mentor
  • Certified RenderMan Pro – Pixar 2022
  • FX Artist Pro Program - CG Spectrum
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certificate of Advanced Particles & Simulation - ILM Academy
  • ServSafe
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
  • Master Certification in VFX and Compositing – Brightline
  • FX Masterclass with Houdini FX – CGMA

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