Work Experience
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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)
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Oruga Animation Studios – 2012
- Provided character animation for augmented reality ad campaign for Fanta.
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Health Nuts Media – 2011 – 2012
- Animated educational health videos for children. Animated 1-2 minutes of footage per week.
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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
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Animation Mentor
- Character Animation Program – 2010
- Creature Animation Program – 2012
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University at Buffalo
- BA, double major in Media Studies (Production Concentration) and Sociology – 2009
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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