PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Insperience Inc. Venice, CA.   September 2019 – Present
Systems Engineer
Virtual Reality Technologies.

• Unity, Oculus. Adobe CC, Maya 2019, Substance,
• Windows 10, Server 2016, Mac OSX. Linux CentOS 7.
• Hyper-V, VMWare. Azure AD Connect for SSO, Teamcity and Visual Studio.
• G-Suite, O365. Perforce, Shotgun, Fog Server. SolarWinds RMM, HexnodeMDM.
• Zoom, Cisco WebEx. Jira, Conflunce, and Jira Service Desk.

Pearl Studio Hollywood, CA. (Netflix)   June 2018 – Sept 2019
IT Engineer

• Manage IT Infrastructure. Creative Apps and Workflow.
• Storage EMC Isilon. Azure AD Administration.
• Server 2016 DC. Hyper-V Cluster. Windows 10 Environment.
• Shotgun Administration, Flix Setup and Administration. Adobe CC Administration
• O365 Administration. Managing FlexLM License Server Linux.
• Hardware Maintenance, Patching, Updates. Creating new Virtual Instances.
• Applications: Maya 2018, Flix, Shotgun, Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Desktop Support and Engineering. Network Administration. Data Center Management.
• Aruba WAP's. and RAP's. TeamViewer working with remote Artists.
• PDQ Deployment Software and System Administrator Tools.
• Management of Domain Controllers, Network and Share Permissions, Group Policy Management.
• Data Center Administration. Installing Servers, Switches, VPN Controller Aruba.

Environment: Pre-Production Animation. Windows 10 Pro, Server 2016, Hyper-V Cluster
EMC Isilon, Adobe Creative Cloud, O365, Avid Isis. EMC Isilon Storage.

Xytech Systems, Inc. Chatsworth, CA.  January 2017 – November 2017
Network Administrator.

• Managed Active Directory. Onboarding New users and disabling accounts. Setting up GPO’s. Security Groups.
• Managing / Administrating Office 365 with Exchange 365. Adding users and disabling accounts. Creating User Groups. Outlook Troubleshooting and Management.
• Managing Server room. Upgrading Servers from 2003, 2008R@ to 2012 R2. Upgrading Hardware Servers from R410 to R720’s.
• Creating and Managing Virtual instances and Virtual Clusters using Hyper-V 2016. VMWare Workstation for Demo Representation.
• Xytech’s MediaPulse. Installation, Troubleshooting install issues and software and SQL Server upgrades. For various Industries MS SQL Server. Installation, Backup and Restores and upgrades. 2008, 2012, 2014. . Setting up IIS for Web Based Software Layer.
• Desktop Support, hardware upgrades, repairs, OS upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Malware and Endpoint Point Protection. Symantec. Set-up through onsite Servers. Network Monitoring Solarwinds Orion, Spiceworks.
• Computer Imaging, cloning, Patching, Security upgrades site wide. WSUS, WDS, Clonezilla, Spiceworks.
• Microsoft Azure Technical Engineer. Building IaaS, SaaS instances form Virtual Instances to setting up Security Protocols.

Saban Community Clinic. Los Angeles,CA. (Contract)    September 2016 – January 2017
IT Support Technician. Health Services.                                                                           

• Support networks, server's, end user's, in a Medical health center. Windows 7, Server 2008R2, 2012R2,
• VMware VSphere ESXi, Hyper-V, Trend Micro endpoint security, Exchange 2010.
• Active Directory in a 3 site environment with at least 250 users.
• Plus medical EHR based software Ochin, Etrabey, and Dentrix. Network Monitoring Solarwinds Orion, Netflow.
• Also support for Office 2013. Outlook. Exchange 2010 Administrator
• Set up of conference meetings using Blue Jeans web conferencing software.

Environment: Windows 7 Po, OCHIN, Etrabey Dentrix, Proofpoint, Solar Winds Orion, Dameware, Web HelpDesk

My Eye Media. Burbank, CA. (Contract) September 2015- May 2016
IT Systems Support Technician

• Desktop Migrations from XP to 7 and 10. Server Migrations. 2003, 2008, 2012R2's
• Active Directory Management. Users and Computers, OU's, GPO's. Sites & Services, DNS
• Server and Active Directory Migrations 2003 to 2008. DNS, TCP/IP.
• Voip Polycom Management. Setting up Phones and Creating User Accounts.
• Exchange Management hosted Services. Creating and setting up Users and Groups. Setting up Outlook clients.
• Office 365 Deployment and Administration.
• Setup and Migration of FileMaker Pro Server 12 to 14 to Server 2012R2. Also Client Management.
• Managing Aspera Server and Signiant. Creating and Managing Accounts. Security management using PKI Technologies.Software Managment: Clipster, Fuze, Buff Box. Office 365. Database FileMaker Pro. Licenses and Purchasing

Environment: Windows 7, 8.1, 10. Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 RDS. Mac OSX Mavericks, Yosemite and El  Capitan.  NetApp San using StornextFs.

Technical Consultant Clifton Post (Project based Contract) July 2015- August 2015
Network / Systems / Desktop Support                                                              

• Setup Scalar  i40 LTO tape autoloader Using Retrospect. Maintain upgrade, Software/Hardware Post Workflows. Meraki management. Upgrade Mac Desktops, Pro and Minis to Yosemite. Rollback certain Mac Hardware to Mavericks due to incapability Issues with 3rd party hardware. Troubleshoot Facilis Terrablock NAS issues. Drobo NAS Firmware upgrades. Driver and Firmware upgrades. Set up LTFS archival Solution. Handle all upgrades site wide.
• Environment: Premiere CC 2014, Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolve. Red Cine workflow, Transcoding: Telestream Vantage. Mac Hardware, OSX, Mavericks, Yosemite. Server 2008. Blackmagic UltraStudio 4K. NAS Tech, Drobo NAS boxes. Facilis Terrablock NAS. Synology NAS, Meraki Switch, MX 100 . Avocent KVM’s

YP.com Glendale, CA. (Contractor)    May 2015 - July 2015
Technical Operations Engineer

• Monitor Network Operations Nationwide. Deploy Software, New builds, updates.
• Monitoring Tools: Netcool, Solarwinds, Gomez, Nagios,
• MS Server 2008, 2012, IIS, CentOS, RHEL. SCCM. Putty, iLO, RDP. JIRA.

Environment: MS Server 2003, 2008, 2012, CentOS 6.5, RHEL 5.4.

 

Point360. Burbank,CA.            June 2014 - March 2015
Network Administrator

• Network and Desktop Support Engineer. Take care of all end-users computers break fixes. Hardware / Software.
• Maintain Network wide systems and Production Pipeline i.e. Software and technologies used for a Media Distribution and Media asset Localization. A Transcoding / Encoding Digital Media environment.
• Windows XP, 7, 8.1. Macs OSX, Linux RHEL Servers. RDP, VNC, SSH. Upgrade/Migrate systems from XP to Win7.
• Aspera, Signiant, Custom DAM, Exchange 2007, Office 2010, Server 2008R2, 2012R , Xserver Dell Servers.
• VMware Workstation, VSphere. Final Cut Pro. WAN / LAN / Fiber/ SAN / NAS / DAS Technologies.
• Environment: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012. Linux (RHEL). Windows XP, 7, 8.1. Quantum SAN's StoreNextFS. Mac OSX, XServes, Digital Rapids, Compressor, Signiant, Aspera. Routers / Switches, Brocade. Altirus, Clonezilla.

IIron Mountain Digital Studios. Hollywood, CA (Contract)   August 2013 – January 2014
Data Recovery Systems Engineer

• Restoring and analyzing various Data Sources from multiple formats via Command-Line and Software
•  Operating Systems used: Solaris, AIX, Linux/CentOS, OpenVMS, Banyon Vines, Windows.
• Environment: Windows Server 2008, Solaris, CentOS, AIX. HP Z400. Netbackup Exec.  FileMaker Pro.

YUVsoft's StereoscopicConversion, January2013 - August 2013          
Technical Consultant and Software Support Level II, III

• Duties to assist and train in usage of plug-in suite for Stereoscopic Conversion Process.
• Also act as Liaison between Russian developers and Clients.
• Other duties Installation and configuration of plug-in suite at Client locations throughout Los Angeles.
• Act as local Demonstration artist during promotional events and for private appointments at various studios.
• Promote Software and introduced numerous Post Production Studios doing Stereoscopic conversion for multi-million dollars 3D Films setting up their VFX Networks with the company's software and training users on best practices.

Environment: Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Professional, VFX Software: Nuke, After Effects.

Blue Hemisphere 3D, Los Angeles, CA. (Contract)  January 2012 - June 2012
Desktop Support and Systems Support Level II, III.  S3D Conversion Technician.
A Stereoscopic Conversion house (S3D). Conversion of various titles.

• Setup Domain Controller and Active Directory for 20+ users. Windows SBS 2003 and Windows Server 2008 r2.
• Rack installation and Configured Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers as File server and a Dell PowerEdge 1850 as the Domain Controller and setting up a NAS for HI-Rez files dedicated to Film and HD file formats.
• Upgrade 20 HP Pavilion desktop computers (using Ghost Imaging software) with Windows 7 Pro Installing all necessary VFX Software for use in Conversion techniques for Stereoscopic Post Production. Also configure all systems with necessary effects plug-ins used for mentioned process.
• Setup using Windows Server 2008 r2 and Rolled out 20+ Clients. Other duties included adding users/machines to Active Directory, troubleshooting computer issues.
• Created and established VFX Network for conversion process. Built and sourced all technologies that created a state of the art file based network that simplified the conversion process.
• Environment: Windows 7 Professional, Mac OSX, MS Office 2007, Windows SBS 2003, Server 2008 r2, Jabber IM. Shotgun Asset Management System.

Private Desktop / Network Consultant / Repair for Home and Small Business Networks. January 2011 – December 2011
 

Einz's M&M , Seoul, S. Korea. (Contract)    February 2010 - December 2010
Stereoscopic (S3D) Technician / Network / Pipeline Support Level III.

• Built a custom VFX Network and Pipeline for the creation of Stereoscopic Films. A file based Network
• Rolled out and configured IM system Cisco Jabber for 75+ users
• Also train locals on how to use the Software and properly use the custom built network.
• Environment: Windows server 2008, user systems Windows XP Professional, The Foundry's Nuke, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Imagineer  Systems Mocha Pro, MS Office 2007. Shotgun Asset Management

Private Desktop / Network Consultant / Repair for Home and Small Business Networks. April 2009 – January 2010

Sony Imageworks, Culver City, CA  (Contract)   January 2009 - April 2009
Technical Director (Lighting/Compositing). Film: "GForce 3D"

• Technical Support for Lighting & Compositing Software using Katana, an in house node based 3D lighting software.
• Support Proprietary Software package for use in Stereoscopic Conversion Process.
• Use various proprietary application systems to ensure proper processing of right eye imagery.
• Custom file based VFX Network For Stereoscopic Feature with custom DAM system.
• Environment: Linux RH Enterprise, VFX Software Nuke, Katana (Proprietary Software.) Custom DAM system.

Flight33 Productions, Sherman, Oaks, CA. (Contract)  July 2008 - January 2009
Network / Software Support / VFX Compositor

• Created and Produced numerous shots and Visual Effects work for Shows on Discovery and History Channels.
• Installation and configuration of Active Directory 75+ Users. Help with Network / Pipeline issues as they arose.
• Created and Installed custom network render farm for CGI department. Networked 15 HP Z400's to create a Distributed Rendering system.
• Environment: HP Z400's and Mac Pro's. Mac OSX, Windows XP Professional. Server 2003r2. Software: After Effects, Nuke, Maya 3D among other proprietary utilities and software. Shotgun Asset Management System.

KRU Productions, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  (Contract)   January 2008 -March 2008 
2D Supervisor / VFX Compositor for Post Production. Film "Cickaman 2"                   
FX  / Technical Lead Position

• Supervise all Animation and Compositing operators and their work for final output. File based workflow.
• Post Production work for feature
• This included the use of Tracking, Compositing  and 3D Software
• Environment: Windows XP Professional. Software:  After Effects, Fusion, XSI 3D.

Private Desktop / Network Consultant / Repair for Home and Small Business Networks March 2007 – December 2007

Hydraulx, Santa Monica, CA. (Contract)          February 2007 -  March 2007
Technical Position Flame Operator (FX Artist)                                                                          
Film "Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer"

• Duties to combine Blue Screen and Live Action Footage also integrate other elements as created by other artists such as 3D, explosions, water elements, flame elements to make a complete  and final shot for final output to film.
• Environment: SGI and HP Computers, UNIX/IRIX and Linux RHEL. Software Flame, Flint, 3D Studio Max, Maya. IRIS Custom DAM system.

SpeedShape Inc. Detroit, Michigan. (Conrtact)      February 2006 - December 2006
Technical Position Lead Autodesk Flame Operator / Compositor

• VFX / CG C for commercials Mostly Automotive. Manage pipeline, file servers,  Archiving. Auto Assembles.
• Duties to combine Animation, environmental  and Live Action Footage also integrate other elements as created by other artists such as 3D elements to make a complete  and final shot for final output to film.
• Environment: SGI Octane 2, Windows XP Professional. Software Flame, Nuke, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator.

Worked as a Private Desktop / Network Consultant / Repair for Home and Small Business. January 2004 – January 2006

Warner Brothers Feature Animation.  Sherman Oaks, CA. January 2004 -December 2004
Desktop support Level I, II.  Film: "LoonyToons Back in Action"
This was a 300+ machine / user environment with both Mac and PC's.

• Provided support for all departments.
• Direct hands on Software support and Training for those that were new users.
• Software used was both Proprietary and Commercial.
• Facilitated the growth of the VFX Network / Pipeline which speed up our abilities to deliver our shot quotas during our most critical period the date of delivery for the completed film.
• Helped simplify all processes between the Creative departments and our developers who created our VFX Pipeline from scratch.
• Environment: HP Pavilions, Linux RHE, Windows XP, Mac OS9. VFX Software . Shake, Maya, US Animation, MS Office, Unix Command line scripts. Customized Media Tracking and Management System.

2002 - flame Artist. Level 3 Post (4mc). Burbank, CA. Compositing,
editing, restoration. Shows TV:  ER, MTV Undressed, Hunter, 21jumpstreet.

2000 - 2001 - POP Film aka Riot Pictures. I/O film technician / Roto. Santa Monica, CA.
(UNIX, inferno).Credits film: X-Men, Little Nicky and Monkeybone.

1996 - 1999 - Downstream Editorial. Post Production Portland, Or.
 Motion graphics designer/Production artist. I’ve worked on various jobs 
Nike, Adidas, Toshiba, Philips HD and others.

Education:

• California State University Los Angeles. BA History. - Graduated
• Santa Monica College.  AA Graphic Design. - Graduated

 VFX Qualifications

• Flame / Flint, Nuke, After Effects, Shake.
• Sparks & Plugins ( Trapcode, Sapphire, Tinderbox, Furnace)
• Premiere Pro CS, Photoshop CS, illustrator CS
• Maya, 3DS Max, XSI Production Experience (Multi-Pass Rendering / Compositing)

• (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux)

• Experienced Film & Commercial compositor, CG integration, color correcting, painting, tracking and keying (blue/green screen) conversions, film color space, bit depths, and editorial count sheets All file formats i.e. Academy, Full app, Cineon, Vista Vision, also working with Multi-Pass openEXR's. 2k, 4k.

• Experienced with A/V signal routing, patch bays, routing switchers, A/V networking, data transfer, waveform/vector scopes and time code.