· Silicon Graphics developer with 16 years of SGI experience & full service development facilities.
· Received two scientific & technical achievement Academy Awards for work in advancing the state-of-the-art in film scanning and digital special effects.
· Was chief architect and one of the primary implementors of Silicon Grail Corporation Chalice computer aided image compositing and image manipulation package used on many films including INDEPENDENCE DAY, BROKEN ARROW, RELIC, VOLCANO, MEN IN BLACK, and TITANIC. This task has since been taken over by Gabe Foster (go Gabe!).
· Provide expert services for independent verification and analysis of software products and personnel during corporate acquisitions or the formation of strategic alliances.
· Extensive hardware, software and interface experience including custom hardware, device drivers, graphical user interfaces, and "killer" apps.
· Designed, implemented, and maintain RFX production film recording and scanning systems being used by many major film production houses, including Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures, Disney, Digital Film Works, and many more.
· Designed and implemented the ULTIMATTE Cinefusion blue screen compositing system on Silicon Graphics and IBM Power Visualization System (PVS) used by several Hollywood film companies. This software was used in IN THE LINE OF FIRE , and many other recent motion pictures.
· Primary designer and implementor of GW Hannaway & Associates WHIP image processing, and FLYMAX 3D modeling & animation packages.
· As a consultant for Aurora Systems on their Liberty Paint product, I was tasked with providing floating license support, image tracking, hardware device support, 64 bit paint support, new keyframe animation system, wireframe image preview, Ultimatte integration, and OpenGL migration. Perhaps most importantly, I provided software engineering technology and training that unified divergent code bases, automated code merging, revision control, and release management. The overall result was to increase individual productivity and ease the burden on key members of the team by distributing responsibilities more evenly.
· Extensive real-time & high performance image processing experience. This includes embedded hardware and external massively parallel processing systems using from four to many thousands of processors.
Scientific and Engineering Awards (Plaque) 1994: For their development work with area array CCD (Charge Coupled Device) film input scanning systems. (w. Ray Feeney & Will McCown also of RFX, Inc., and Les Dittert of Pacific Data Images)
Scientific and Engineering Awards (Plaque) 1994: For the Cinefusion software and implementation of the Ultimatte Blue Screen Compositing Technology. (w. George Sauve, Arpag Dadourian, Ray Feeney and Richard Patterson)
2 Scientific/Technical Awards