✅ Responsibilities

• Overseeing technical architecture, pipeline strategy, and quality standards for Lighting & Comp on all DreamWorks TV productions.
• Engineering robust object-oriented Python libraries which supercharge our development iteration speeds.
• Designing and developing Python-based software and tools deployed to hundreds of artists globally, utilizing Qt, USD, Flow PT, Git, Docker, ffmpeg, OIIO, OCIO, etc.
• Utilizing my deep knowledge of DCCs such as Maya, Houdini, Nuke, Unreal Engine, etc to realize new and creative workflows.
• Bridging communication between internal teams and vendors to align technical solutions with creative goals and ensure efficient production workflows.
• Managing an in-house team of lighting artists and TDs on day-to-day tasks and long-term R&D projects.

📈 Key Projects

• Developed a USD backed, sequence based lighting and rendering pipeline in a game engine for episodic production.
• Aligned multiple departments codebases to use our core libraries, greatly cutting down on similar and duplicate code.
• Transitioned the studio from a legacy color pipeline to ACES with OCIO along with P3 and HDR.
• Brought hundreds of thousands of lines of legacy code up to modern development standards including PEP8, logging, Python 3 compatibility, unit testing, etc.

🏆 Awards

• DreamWorks Technology Champion Award (2026) for TV Lighting & Pipeline. "Awarded to an individual who, through their ideas and actions, has significantly enhanced and advanced the DreamWorks cultural values within our technical community."
• DreamWorks TechCon Team Initiative Award (2024) for my work developing the first DreamWorks TV Game Engine Pipeline for series production on Be@rbrick
• Advancing the DWATV Animation Pipeline (2019) award for my creation of the Lighting Handoff Tool which automated the Animation to Lighting handoff.

• Lighting, rendering, and compositing for various LEGO projects including story animations, product features, and key visuals.
• Look development, sequence lighting, and shot lighting with Maya, Redshift, and Fusion.
• Designed creative solutions for problems that arose in production such as memory limitations, volumetric rendering issues, etc.

• Worked on student film projects including Trouble Brewing.
• Lead a team of artists on MediaWorks projects where we pitched and delivered short video projects for real world clients.