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Work Experience

Rigging Pipeline Technical Director

Bardel Entertainment
June 2024 - April 2025

Supported rigging team through pipeline development research, maintenance and tool testing

Senior Rigging Artist March 2023 - July 2023

Versatile Media
May 2022 - December 2022

Developed Rigging modules for open source task builder, for show assets
Mentored Junior Rigging artists
Gave direction on Maya Python tool development
Unreal Engine rig publish and validation for Visual Art Production

Rigging Technical Director

Western Post
May 2022 - December 2022

Character setup for a canine using MGear

Rigging Artist

Zoic Studios
March 2021 - March 2022

Skinning and Character setups for digi double assets for TV Shows
Passed Quality control tests on all skinned asset work

Rigging TD and Pipeline TD

Twisted Mountain Inc
June 2020 - August 2019

Developed Maya Auto Rigger modules
Asset and Character Rigging work
Maya Rigging tool development, blendShape and mesh manipulation

Intermediate Rigger

ICON Creative Studio
August 2018 - August 2019

Creature rigging and deformation work for TV Shows
Extensive prop asset work
Developed rigging workflow tools

Creature Rigging TD

Method Studios
October 2017 - August 2018

Creature Setups for Antman and Christmas Chronicles
Modifying creature and prop autobuilder scripts, skincluster deformation
Technical Animation for cloth simulations

Python Programmer

Method Studios
June 2017 - October 2017

Developed converstion tool using PyQt
Converting Video image sequences
Converting edit decision lists to color decision lists, comma separated value files for post production

Creature TD, Pipeline TD

Artifex Studios
July 2016 - July 2017

Developed new pipeline for file authoring
Asset management tools for Maya and Nuke, Deadline submission tools, Shader importer/ exporter
Complex creature rigging, millipede setups