Tony DeRose is a software engineer at Pixar and he's one of the major designers responsible for the character Geri, who appears in the Academy Award®-winning short film GERI'S GAME (1997) as well as in TOY STORY 2 (1999). He is well known for his presentations about computer graphics and the steps that people have to go through to learn about careers in that subject. DeRose is also credited on A BUG'S LIFE (1998), MONSTERS, INC. (2001), FINDING NEMO (2003), and THE INCREDIBLES (2004). Technical Achievement Awards 2005: (Academy Certificates) - For the original concept (Catmull) and the scientific and practical implementation (DeRose/Stam) of subdivision surfaces as a modeling technique in motion picture production. (w. Ed Catmull; Jos Stam) 1 Sci-Tech Award