Dec 2013 – Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Work with lead lighters to simplify their workflow
• Implement a light mixer within Katana and as a standalone tool, to enable faster iterations and looks
• Work with lead hair artists to facilitate their throughput in both Maya and Katana
• Develop and optimise Katana plugins and workflow for hair, geometry instancing, and feathers
• Optimise Maya interactivity with geometry instancing and hair

May 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Worked with lead lighters to scope and create new features to achieve complex looks
• Renderman imagers that allow tweaking vibrance, contrast and hue
• Renderman shaders that allow more refined controls for different lights
• hardware shaders to interactively view changes in proprietary software
• simplified user interfaces to improve usability

Aug 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for a custom data format containing mesh information exported from and imported into 3rd party applications.
• Maya mesh shape plug-in that displays the cache data via OpenGL vertex buffer drawing or display list
• 3delight procedural to render the cache data
• Houdini SOP node plug-in and delayed load geometry procedural
• Created asset management UIs that interface internal data with 3rd party applications to enable supervisors, coordinators, and artists to efficiently manage and pass assets between disciplines in the vfx pipeline.

Aug 2008 – Dec 2008 · 4 mos

Feb 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Development of cineSpace colour management suite.

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos

• created a 3D simulation of a tactical situation