Employment History

February 2008 – March 2008
Animator at Stardust on Cheetos spot

December 2007 – January 2008
Animator at Digital Domain on Windows Server campaign

October 2007 – November 2007
Animator at Projectile FX on HP project

September 2007 – October 2007
Animator at King and Country on “Food Network Holiday Campaign”

July 2007 – September 2007
Animation Supervisor on “Transylmania” animated main title

June 2007 – July 2007
Lighter at Brain Zoo Studios on “Mercenaries 2”

May 2007 – June 2007
Animator at King & Country on “Sirius Dog”

March 2007 – April 2007
Animator at Warner Brothers on “Where the Wild Things Are”

August 2006 – February 2007
CG Supervisor at Pixomondo (Germany) on “The Red Baron”

April 2006 – July 2006

Animator at Prologue on promos for the Sci-Fi Channel

January 2006 - March 2006

Animator at Café FX on "Pan's Labyrinth"

October 2005 - January 2006

Animator at The Orphanage on "The Host"

September 2005 - October 2005

Animator at Radium on Capitol One "Tortoise" spot.

August 2005 - September 2005

Animator at Pixel Liberation Front on "Stay Alive"

July 2005

Animator at Radium on "Pixel Chix" spot

April 2005 - June 2005

Animator at Omation on "The Barnyard"

January 2005 - April 2005 

Animation / Creature Supervisor at The Orphanage on "Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D", Honeycomb "Lucky Kid" and "Gold" spots

October 2004 - December 2004

Animation Supervisor at Logan Media, Inc. on BBC "Young Girl", "Clash", "Fresh Day" spots

January 2004 - August 2004

Senior Character Animator at Peerless Camera Company, Ltd on "The Brothers Grimm"

December 2003 - January 2004

Animator at Radium, Inc. on Tropicana "Exposed" commercial

October 2003

Animator at Digital Kitchen / Chicago on Budweiser "Hops" commercial

July 2003 - September 2003

Character Animator at Tippett Studios on "Matrix: Revolutions"

May 2003 - July 2003

Character Animator at Modern VideoFilm on "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"

April 2003 - May 2003

Animator at Uncharted Territory on Sony "Xplod" Commercial

February 2003 - March 2003

Animator at Digital Kitchen / Chicago on Quikrete "Origami" Commercial

November 2002 - December 2002

Character Animator at Allied Arts & Sciences on HP "Warrior" Commercial

September 2002 - October 2002

Character Animator at MilneFX on "Nafrin" episode of "Yes Dear". 

June 2002 - July 2002

Character Animator at Computer Cafe on "Spy Kids 2".

May 2001 - October 2001

Character Animator at Centropolis FX on "Eight-Legged Freaks".

March 2001 - May 2001

Character Animator at Sony Imageworks on previsualization of Quidditch sequence of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

March 1998 - March 2001

Senior Character Animator at Digital Domain. Founding member of Character Animation department. Character animation, animation supervision, color and lighting on many projects, including "What Dreams May Come", "Titanic", "Tightrope", Coke "Jitterbug", and Levi's "Socks".

August 1995 - March 1998

Animator at Digital Domain. Character animation, color and lighting on projects such as "T23D", and GCC "Candy Band".

September 1993 - July 1995

Animator at Metrolight Studios. Effects animation on "Batman Forever", "Under Siege 2", Michelin "Baby", and others. Character animation on Farmers' Insurance "Monkeys" and "Goldfish".

September 1992 - September 1993

Technical Assistant at Metrolight Studios. Responsible for developing and operating a network-wide backup system.

February 1988 - August 1992

Cameraman, Editor, member of creative staff, Union Project Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Union Project USA, Inc. (LA). Creation of live action commercials and industrials. 

Software | OS 

Fluent in Maya, Softimage XSI, Power Animator, Renderman, Mental Ray, Matador, Photoshop, Shake, Nuke (DD Compositor), Irix, reasonable C-shell scripting, NT, MacOS

Education

BFA San Francisco Art Institute in Printmaking and Painting

3 years UC Santa Cruz

Arriflex Camera Assistant Certification

"Acting for Animators" classes with Al Ruscio and Suzan Averitt