Resume

Work Experience

  • Industrial Light & Magic – 2012 – Present

    • Currently a Lead Animator (Temporary Assignment) working on Ahsoka at ILM San Francisco.
    • Animated shots from initial conception to final render. Took initiative and created and improved dozens of tools (Maya Python / PyMel / PyQT / Pyside / MEL) which have cumulatively saved thousands of hours of animation work.
    • Projects worked on include:
      • Ahsoka – Disney+ show (TBA)
      • The Mandalorian – Season 3 – Disney+ show (TBA)
      • The Book of Boba Fett – Disney+ show (2021)
      • The Mandalorian – Season 2 – Disney+ show (2020)
      • Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order TV commercial (2019)
      • Star Wars, Bell TV commercial (2019)
      • Vader Immortal – ILMxLab VR Experience (2019)
      • Star Tours – The Rise of Skywalker update – theme park ride (2019)
      • The Mandalorian – Season 1 – Disney+ show (2019)
      • Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
      • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
      • Captain Marvel (2019)
      • Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge TV commercial (2019)
      • Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance – theme park ride (2019)
      • Bumblebee Wal-Mart commercial (2019)
      • Bumblebee (2018)
      • Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
      • A Quiet Place (2018)
      • Black Panther (2018)
      • Star Wars Battlefront 2 commercials (2017)
      • Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
      • Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
      • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
      • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
      • Warcraft (2016)
      • Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine – ILMxLab VR experience (2015)
      • Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure – theme park ride (2015)
      • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
      • Tomorrowland (2015)
      • Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
      • Wanda Wuhan Ride – theme park ride (2014)
      • Noah (2014)
      • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
      • Pacific Rim (2013)

  • Oruga Animation Studios – 2012

    • Provided character animation for augmented reality ad campaign for Fanta.

  • Health Nuts Media – 2011 – 2012

    • Animated educational health videos for children. Animated 1-2 minutes of footage per week.

  • Six Point Harness – 2010 – 2011

    • Animated on a few episodes of the first season of MTV’s Good Vibes as well as a few episodes of various Mondo Media productions.

Education

  • Animation Mentor

    • Character Animation Program – 2010
    • Creature Animation Program – 2012

  • University at Buffalo

    • BA, double major in Media Studies (Production Concentration) and Sociology – 2009

    • Activities and Societies: Performing Arts Scholarship, Honors Scholar, Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Winner of Media Study Levy-King-White award, National Society of Collegiate Scholars

    • Studied abroad in the United Kingdom at the University of Leicester