Managed pipeline and tech art features of content creation for artists and troubleshooted content related issues for the end-to-end autonomous vehicle simulator.

Led a cross-departmental team to create a validation system for thousands of asset combinations to ensure asset technical and perceptual (camera and LIDAR response) correctness within the simulator.

Reduced customer reported error rate 77% and increased the number of weekly automated issues caught by 500%. Designed and implemented an asset catalog web viewer for individual asset metrics and related validation data.

Created automation pipeline to reduce vehicle assembly time from days to minutes saving 700+ hours of work for artists.

Integrated Python into content pipeline in UE4 in order to automate generation of 1000+ assets from mesh to sim.

Developed editor asset preview tool fully integrated with 'gameplay' features so artists could test in-editor before publishing (including LIDAR response, variant preview, attachments, and vehicle functionality such as doors and lights).

Created mesh and color variant systems and a robust attachment system, increasing total asset combinations exponentially from hundreds to millions of permutations leading to significant improvement in machine learning (ML) metrics.

Improved asset databases for simulation content, automating generation and validation and created system to alert users to pull request (PR) impact and changes (through automatic PR comments, diffing and reporting).

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Collaborated with team to bid, design, and execute real-time visual effects for virtual reality content under tight production deadlines.

Leading role in developing Maestro, an award-winning system to manage and collaboratively review VR movie sequences.

Designed and implemented a collaborative workflow and source control solution for VR development in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) using Perforce, AWS, and Jenkins for CI.

Streamlined studio workflow by writing artist-friendly pipeline tools to manage assets, projects, and custom UE4 engine versions.

Created highly optimized effects, shaders and scripts in Unity for an unnannounced cross-platform mobile VR project.

Prototyped and developed VR specific graphics applications such as portals and developed tools for asset creation in native VR.

Developed custom UE4 plugins to manage VR movie sequences in a constantly shifting production for easy playback, review, and final shipping infrastructure.

Designed and prototyped avatar and character creation features in Unity for an unnannounced project.

The Rose and I Lead Technical Director

Allumette FX Developer & Software Engineer

Arden's Wake Senior Technical Artist

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Implemented iOS app features including on-boarding tutorial system and token-based authentication.

Optimized and refactored Objective C to increase performance on main application interface, including asynchronous loading of user assets.

Used the native iOS library and Objective C, graphics programming with OpenGL/Cocos2d, and server-side programming using Javascript and Node.js

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Coded pipeline scripts/tools for FX rendering pipeline using C++, Python, and HScript (Houdini OTL’s) in Linux environment.

Designed, rendered, and composited FX elements using Houdini, Nuke, and proprietary in-house pipeline in stereoscopic 3D.

Pipeline Task Force Visionary

Rendering Task Force Developer

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Provided support, maintenance, and production specific features for the Cars 2 asset profiling system in the Global Technology Dept.

Scripted in Python and tcsh extensively in a Linux environment.

Wrote Python scripts to automate creation of webpages to visually track asset profiling statistics such as render times, memory usage, etc.