Resume

EXPERIENCE

  • Industrial Light & Magic – Vancouver, BC 
    • Oct 2013 – August 2017                                                   
    • Lead Lighting Technical Director
      • Project:  Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi  
    • Responsible for lighting and lookdev, problem solving and rendering
    • Katana, RenderMan
    • Senior Lighting Technical Director
      • Projects:  Captain America: the winter soldier, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Warcraft,Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Rogue One
    • Responsible for lighting shots, problem solving and rendering
    • Katana, Vray, RenderMan

 

  • Sony Pictures Imageworks – Vancouver, BC
    • March 2013 – August 2013
    • Lighting Technical Director
      • Project:  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    • Responsible for lighting shots, problem solving and rendering
    • Katana, Arnold

 

  • Industrial Light & Magic – Vancouver, BC
    • Nov 2012 – March 2013
    • Lighting Technical Director
      • Project:  Pacific Rim
    • Responsible for lighting shots, problem solving and rendering
    • Katana, Arnold

 

  • Digital Domain Company – Vancouver, BC
    • June 2012 – Nov 2012
    • Lead Lighting Technical Director
      • Project:  Ender’s Game
    • Responsible for setting up shots, problem solving and rendering
    • Maya, Vray

 

  • Moving Picture Company – Vancouver, BC
    • June 2011 – May 2012
    • Senior Lighting Technical Director
      • Project:  Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Life of Pi, SuperMan: Autumn Frost
    • Responsible for lighting shots, look development, and rendering
    • Katana, RenderMan

 

  • Digital Domain – Vancouver, BC 
    • June 2010 – May 2011
    • Lead Lighting Technical Director
      • Projects:  Thor, Transformers 3
    • Responsible for key lighting shots and rendering, setting up the lighting set up of sequences for my team of 20
    • Maya, RenderMan

 

  • ImageMovers Digital – Novato, CA
    • January 2009 – May 2010
    • Lead Lighting Technical Director
      • Projects:  A Christmas Carol, Mars Needs Moms
    • Responsible for key lighting shots and rendering, setting up the lighting set up of sequences for my lighting team
    •  RenderMan

 

  • Industrial Light & Magic – San Francisco, CA
    • August 2008 – October 2008
    • Lighting Technical Director
      • Project:  Star Trek (2009)
    • Responsible for lighting shots and rendering, lighting to match plates, consistent
    • Zeno, RenderMan

 

  • The Orphanage – San Francisco, CA
    • February 2007 – June 2008
    • Lead Lighting Technical Director
      • Projects:  Iron Man, Die Hard 4, Toy Story mania (Disney/Pixar ride commercial)
    • Feature film and commercial work.  Responsible for lighting shots and rendering
    • Maya/Mental Ray/Brazil2

 

  • Animal Logic – Sydney, Australia 
    • May 2006 – October 2006
    • Lighting Technical Director
      • Project:  Happy Feet
    • Responsible for lighting shots and rendering and compositing
    • MayaMan, DigitalFusion

 

  • ReelFX Creative Studio – Dallas, TX
    • March 2004 – May 2006
    • Lighting Technical Director
      • Projects:  Everyone’s Hero, Hasbro: Ninja Battles, The Wild, G.I. Joe: Valor vs Venom
    • Responsible for setting up environment lights and character
    • Maya, Nuke

 

  • SKILLS
    • Maya
    • Katana
    • Mental Ray
    • RenderMan
    • Arnold
    • Vray
    • 3D Studio Max
    • Brazil
    • Mel/Python Scripting
    • Digital Fusion
    • Nuke
    • Photoshop

 

  • EDUCATION
    • American Animation Institute, Burbank, CA
      • October ’00 – May ’01
      • Traditional Animation
    • Associates in Art, Sherman Oaks, CA
      • February ’00 – December ‘00
      • Traditional Animation
    • Principia College, Elsah, IL
      • September ’95 – June ‘98
      • BA, Studio Art Major, Graphic Design Focus