Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; educated at UCLA (BA, music composition) and Cal Poly Pomona (MA, education). Visual effects supervisor and digital effects artist at ILM who entered American film as a digital compositor at Pacific Ocean Post for BROKEN ARROW and INDEPENDENCE DAY (both 1996). Other notable credits include THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK and MEN IN BLACK (both 1997), DEEP IMPACT and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (both 1998), OCTOBER SKY and STAR WARS EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (both 1999), SPACE COWBOYS (2000), THE PLEDGE (2001), STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002), TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES and MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (both 2003), THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK and THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (both 2004), WAR OF THE WORLDS, JARHEAD and MUNICH (all 2005), and THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES and INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (both 2008).  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2002: STAR WARS EPISODE II ATTACK OF THE CLONES (w. Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Ben Snow)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2005: WAR OF THE WORLDS (w. Dennis Muren, Randy Dutra & Daniel Sudick) 2 nominations