Dan Enstrom

Work History

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  Senior Digital Compositor

  Apple Inc.

  May 2019 - Present

  Sunnyvale, California
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  Digital Compositor

  Industrial Light & Magic

  October 2012 - May 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Digital Artist responsible for integration of all live action and digital elements/assets/effects that compose a final shot as approved by the client. As a technologist and a member of ILM's compositing technology team, I designed and presided over the implementation of a global nuke settings profiler for ILM's compositing pipeline. This allows the nuke compositing software to be customized based on not only where a user is in the world, but the type of project that they are working on as well. This means that nuke only loads the tools that are needed for the project allowing it to operate as fast and efficiently as possible. I also worked closely with ILM Research and Development to build and test Deep Learning machine models for film resolution imagery.
  
  Projects:
  Pacific Rim
  Noah
  Transformers: Age of Extinction
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  Agent Carter
  Tomorrowland
  Jurassic World
  Jurassic World Apatosaurus VR Experience
  Gymnasium Whale Jump (AR Visualization)
  Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
  Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Sunken Treasure (Shanghai Disneyland)
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
  Doctor Strange
  The Great Wall
  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  Nissan Rogue: Star Wars Rogue One Driving Test Course (VR)
  Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
  Black Panther
  Ready Player One
  Solo: A Star Wars Story
  Antman & The Wasp
  Us
  Avengers Endgame
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  Gatekeeper

  Industrial Light & Magic

  December 2008 - October 2012

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Member of show crew responsible for all third party vendor data transfers and conversions. For nearly every discipline in the ILM pipeline, manage and convert all incoming and outgoing data needed to support visual effects work at third party locations. This was a role largely expanded on my first show as a Gatekeeper, "Rango"​, where I was also responsible for working with our Information Systems group and each department supervisor to write, deploy, and maintain tools for preparation and scrubbing of ILM data to send out, as well as tools to re-ingest completed VFX data back into ILM's pipeline seamlessly.
  
  Projects:
  Rango
  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  Battleship
  The Avengers
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  Digital Resource Assistant

  Industrial Light & Magic

  October 2006 - November 2008

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Member of show crew responsible for the management of all show data including conversions, the loading of incoming plates and reference, and the exporting and quality control of final shot frames. Worked with a team of other Resource Assistants to manage all of ILM's storage arrays keeping shows within quota and running smoothly. Additionally responsible for maintaining, upgrading, and expanding storage management and conversion pipeline tools and infrastructure.
  
  Projects:
  Evan Almighty
  Ironman
  Confessions of a Shopaholic
  Termination Salvation
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  Stock Team Lead

  Nordstrom

  March 2006 - September 2006

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Worked closely with Shipping and Receiving personnel, Loss Prevention, and each Department Manager to organize and deploy Stock Team Members as needed to monitor and restock store inventory. Also organized members of the stock team on short notice to relocate department inventory while the store was undergoing a large scale remodel.