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Born in Aliquippa, PA. Visual effects supervisor and computer graphics artist who entered American film as a 3-D and CG animator in the early 1990s. Notable non-nominated credits include STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991), JURASSIC PARK and METEOR MAN (both 1993), THE FLINTSTONES (1994), CASPER (1995), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and DAYLIGHT (both 1996), JACK FROST (1998), MAGNOLIA (1999), VAN HELSING (2004), X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2006), THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP (2007), and AVATAR (scheduled for release in 2009).  Best Achievement in Visual Effects 2002: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (w. Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke)  Best Achievement in Visual Effects 2003: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (w. Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke)  Technical Achievement Award (Certificate) 2003: For their groundbreaking implementations of practical methods for rendering skin and other translucent materials using subsurface scattering techniques. (w. Christophe Hery and Ken McGaugh)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2004: I, ROBOT (w. Andrew R. Jones, Erik Nash and John Nelson)  Best Achievement in Visual Effects 2005: KING KONG (w. Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers & Richard Taylor) 4 nominations, 3 Awards, 1 Scientific/Technical Award