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• Extensive feature film experience in visual effects animation, screenwriting, pitching, voice acting.
• Nominated for a British Academy Award (BAFTA)
• Visual effects artist on six Academy Award-nominated films

• Wrote screenplay to the Academy Award-winning short animated film "The Chubbchubbs!"
• Nominated for a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for writing 'The Chubbchubbs!' (official site)
• Wrote screenplay to "Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists" (Released by Trimark, 2000)
• Second Place, Scr(i)pt Magazine Open Door screenwriting contest sponsored by 'Guy Walks into a Bar' productions
• Second Place, AAA Screenplay Contest sponsored by Creative Screenwriting magazine
• Third place, Fade In Magazine Screenwriting contest
• Finalist, New Jersey International Film & Screenplay Festival
• Semi-Finalist, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
• Finalist, Century City Screenplay Festival
• Voice actor ("The ChubbChubbs!," "The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas"),  SAG Eligible

• Current
  
• Iron Man 3       – FX artist (Digital Domain)

• Effects Artist, Sony Pictures Imageworks
  
• The Amazing Spider-Man        – FX artist (Webs, destruction)
• Arthur Christmas                      – FX artist (Dust & Magic dust)
• Green Lantern                          – FX artist (Central battery beam, ring beams, Tomar Re's contstruct)
• G-Force                                     – FX artist (Destruction, dust)
• Valkyrie                                     – FX artist (Hitler assassination attempt explosion)
• Hancock                                    – FX artist(Destruction)
• The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas     - Voice Actor (ChubbChubbs)
• I Am Legend                             – FX artist(Explosions)
• Spider-Man 3                            – FX Animation Lead (Led "rebel" Sandman team & Glider Fx team)
• Ghost Rider                               – FX Artist (Smoke effects)
• Monster House                          – FX Artist (Constance' "spirit cloud" at end)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe– FX artist (Water & mist in waterfall sequence, snow & ice)
• [Narnia nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects, 2006]
  
  
• Effects Animator, Stan Winston Studio
• Fantastic Four – Lead FX Artist (invisibility & force field effects)
  
  
• Effects Animator, DreamWorks Feature Animation
• Shark Tale – FX animator (Oscar's lava lamp, bubbles and ripples)
• [Shark Tale nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature, 2005]
  
  
• Visual Effects Artist, Rhythm & Hues studios
• Knight and Day       – FX Artist (Destruction, explosions) 
• The Cat In The Hat – FX Artist (Lightning) 
• X2:X-Men United    – FX Artist (Water & Foam) 
• Daredevil                  – FX Artist (“Shadow world” effect)
  
  
• Visual Effects Animator, Digital Domain
• Star Trek: Nemesis   – FX animator (smoke, debris, explosion sweetening) 
• The Day After Tomorrow – FX animator (CGI snowy landscape tests)
  
  
• Visual Effects Animator, Screenwriter & Voice Actor, Sony Pictures Imageworks
• The ChubbChubbs! (short film) – Screenwriter (also performed the voice of the ChubbChubbs characters)
• ["The ChubbChubbs!" won the Academy Award for best animated short, 2003, also was nominated for BAFTA, 2003]
• Spider-Man – FX Animation Lead (Green Goblin glider smoke)
• [Spider-Man nominated for an Academy Award for special effects, 2003]
• Hollow Man – FX Animation Lead, (muscles in invisibility transformation sequences)
• [Hollow Man nominated for an Academy Award for special effects, 2001]
• The Astronaut’s Wife – Procedural animation (the “lightning alien”)
• Random Hearts – CGI artist (airplane)
• Stuart Little – CGI Lighting Artist (mouse brushing teeth and gargling shots)
• [Stuart Little nominated for an Academy Award for special effects, 2000]
  
  
• Screenwriter & Background Voice Actor, Pentafour Studios
• Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists – Screenwriter, background voices
  
  
• Technical Director & Scratch Voice Actor, Walt Disney Feature Animation
• Tarzan – CGI water, look development and rendering
• Dinosaur – Scratch voice actor
• Kingdom Of The Sun – (Later retitled "The Emporer's New Groove") Visual development
• Hercules – Look Development, CG lighting & rendering for the Hydra character

Screenwriting, Pitching, Story Development & Voice acting:

• Pitched, wrote treatments, original screenplay & voiced characters for The ChubbChubbs
• Wrote screenplay to Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists, all CGI feature film released by Trimark, 2000
  
• Performed background voices for Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
• Performed scratch voice for character of Kron in Disney’s Dinosaur.
• Pitched feature film story ideas to Walt Disney Feature Animation, Sony Pictures Animation & DreamWorks

Education:

• Master of Science,  The Ohio State University
• Major: Computer science, specialization in computer graphics.
• Bachelor of Science, The Ohio State University
• Major: Computer graphics & animation, minor in Philosophy.

Other Experience/Skills:

• Animator and co-founder, Jamination Animation, Inc.
• Created scoreboard animations for Madison Square Garden, NY Yankees, Chicago Bulls, others
• Scoreboard Animator, Manager of Ohio State University Scoreboard Staff
• Created animations for matrix scoreboards in football stadium & basketball arena. Created animation ideas, gags, pitched animation ideas to sponsors
• Extensive experience with: Houdini, Maya, Renderman, Python, VEX, Mel, Perl
  
  

• Catalina Island Triathlon - 2011
• Catalina Island Triathlon - 2007
• Hermosa Beach Triathlon - 2005
  
• Pacific Coast Triathlon - 2004
• Long Beach Triathlon - 2004
• Catalina Island Triathlon - 2004

• Um, all of them.