My experience/ Resume

It's a little difficult to write one's own resume while still maintaining a sense of anonymity. Since much of my professional life has been working on somewhat high profile entertainment works, it probably wouldn't be difficult, by listing my credentials, who I was.

I begin my career working for the famous Boston animation studio Olive Jar.  I have been involved in visual effects for the last 16 years and have work for most of the major film studios as well as several large and medium size visual effects firms. I have personally worked with over seven Academy Award winning visual effects supervisors and have extensive experience producing and coordinating large digital teams as well as organizing location shoots and working with first unit film crews. I believe my experience in modern and traditional animation techniques would make me an asset in an education environment looking to train professionals.

1990-1991 work for Nickelodeon on the television show "Salute your shorts" doing a variety of different jobs from art dept. to AD work to Production assistant

1991-92 Prop master/ art department assistant. worked on several commercials and low budget features in this capacity. this helped me learn a lot about how to do budgets and how a film or tv set worked

1992-1994 Video Image coordinator. This job was a little more complex. as i had some experience in animation and production it was somewhat easy for me to learn my way around but I had to earn a new science. My job mostly involved the coordinating and implementation of 24 frame per sec video and computer graphic and video imagery playback for feature films

1994-1997 VIFX video and visual effects coordinator. Worked on many films in this capacity and learned the incoming technology that is now industry standard

1997 TIG productions/ Visual effects producer for a big budget kevin Costner film

1998-199 Worked on the team at Manex that Created the visual effects for the Matrix

probably the most difficult job I have done in the last 20 years.

1999-2000 VFX producer for 4Ward vfx. This was the visual effects company founded by Robert and Dennis Skotak, best known as collaborators with James Cameron on "Galaxy of Terror", "Aliens" and "Terminator 2". the Skotaks were first trained at the now legendary roger Corman studios so , although they were perfectionists, they tended to worked with limited budgets to perform miracles. It was quite amazing to work with such clever and creative people.

2001-2011 Freelance visual effects producer.  This period was the most harrowing. A lot of up and downs. a lot of traveling including South Africa, Canada, Kazakhstan and Germany. The industry was in a constant state of flux and visual effects and production companies were going out of business left and right and many were laying off large portions of their staffs to survive.

It was an industry experience to work in Hollywood for the last two decades. In 2011 I decided that it was time to look into other careers and get new training. That is what led me to Quinnipiac.