OBJECTIVE
High-energy and self-motivated individual seeking a position as a Senior Lighting/Compositing Technical Director.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, California
- Senior Lighting and Compositing Technical Director, November 2014 – Present
- Lighting & Compositing for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”
- Lighting for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Spider-Man: No Way Home”
- Look Development, Lighting & Compositing for “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Vivo”
- Unreal Lighter for “Love, Death + Robots Season 3 – In Vaulted Halls Entombed”
- Lighting & Compositing for “The Mitchells vs. the Machines”
- Lighting Lead, Look Development & Compositing for “Spider-Man: Far From Home”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
- Senior Compositor for “Love, Death & Robots – Lucky 13”
- Look Development, Lighting & Compositing for “Spider-Man: Homecoming”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Smurfs: The Lost Village”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Ghostbusters”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Alice Through the Looking Glass”
- Look Development, Lighting & Compositing for “Hotel Transylvania 2”
Blur Studio, Culver City, California
- Scene Assembler, July 2014 – September 2014
- Lighting & Compositing for “Assassin’s Creed: Unity” TV Spot
Industrial Light & Magic, San Francisco, California
- Digital Artist, Compositor, May 2014 – July 2014
- Lighting & Compositing for “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, California
- Senior Lighting and Compositing Technical Director, February 2013 – March 2014
- Compositing & FX Look Development for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Smurfs 2”
Rhythm & Hues, El Segundo, California
- Senior Lighting Technical Director, November 2012 – February 2013
- Lighting for “Into the Storm”
Mirada Studios, Marina Del Ray, California
- Compositor, October 2012
- Lead Compositor for “Disney Infinity” commercial spot
Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, California
- Senior Lighting and Compositing Technical Director, October 2010 – July 2012
- Lighting & Compositing for “Hotel Transylvania”
- Lighting & Compositing & Stereo Lead for “The Amazing Spider-Man”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Arthur Christmas”
- Lighting & Compositing for “Green Lantern”
- Stereoscopic Compositing for “Green Hornet”
Animal Logic, Sydney, Australia
- Lighting and Compositing Technical Director, May 2010 – August 2010
- Lighting & Compositing for “Legend of the Guardians”
Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, California
- Lighting Technical Director, November 2009 – January 2010
- Lighting & Compositing for “Alice In Wonderland”
Weta Digital, Wellington, New Zealand
- Lighting Technical Director, September 2009 – November 2009
- Lighting & Compositing for “Avatar”
Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, California
- Lighting and Compositing Technical Director, January 2009 – June 2009
- Lighting & Compositing for “G-Force”
Walt Disney Feature Animation, Burbank, California
- Lighting/Compositing Assistant Technical Director, December 2007 – December 2008
- Worked in both the shot finaling and technical animation departments developing tools in conjunction with creating 3D stereoscopic imagery for “Bolt”
Sony Pictures Imageworks, Culver City, California
- Associate Technical Director, August 2007 – October 2007
- Created 3D stereoscopic imagery for “Beowulf 3D”
COMPUTER SKILLS
Programming
- MEL, Python, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, ActionScript, HTML, ASP, SQL, Perl, PHP, C++
Operating Systems
- Windows, MacOS, MS-DOS, UNIX, LINUX
Software
- Unreal Engine 4, Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Nuke, Shake, Digital Fusion, Katana, Arnold, RenderMan, Mental Ray, Photoshop and V-Ray
AREAS OF STRENGTH AND KEY SKILLS
- Proven ability to learn a company’s pipeline and software in a short time and produce high quality work
- Strong interpersonal skills and work efficiently in a team environment
- Creative technical and artistic problem solving
EDUCATION
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Rochester, New York
- Master of Fine Arts, Computer Animation, May 2007
- GPA: 3.8
- Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, May 2002
- Concentration: Web Design/Programming and Interactive Multimedia
- GPA: 3.7
AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Sony Pictures Imageworks 2020 Award for Outstanding Shot in a Feature
- Sony Pictures Entertainment Applause Award recipient for:
- “In Vaulted Halls Entombed” from “Love, Death & Robots Season 3” Netflix series
- “Lucky 13” from “Love, Death & Robots Season 1″ Netflix series
- “Alice Through the Looking Glass“
- “The Amazing Spider-Man“
- “Arthur Christmas”
- Applause Awards are for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to SPE. Demonstrating exceptional initiative and teamwork