Allen Stetson

Work History

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  Associate Lead Pipeline TD (Senior II), Cinematics

  Blizzard Entertainment

  September 2017 - Present

  Irvine, CA
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  Lead Pipeline Engineer

  Wētā FX

  May 2015 - August 2017

  Los Angeles, CA
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  Department Supervisor

  DreamWorks Animation

  July 2000 - February 2015

  
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  Lead/Technical Director

  DreamWorks Animation

  February 2003 - November 2008

  departments: Animation, Surfacing, FX, Lighting.
  films: Shrek2, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, The Bee Movie, Flushed Away
  Responsible for meeting/maintaining the technical requirements of a department in developing an animated feature film. Support, development, training.
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  Technical Assistant

  DreamWorks Animation

  February 2002 - February 2003

  Animation Dept. Shrek 4D. Assistant to the Technical Director

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Render Assistant

  DreamWorks Animation

  July 2000 - February 2002

  Shrek 1, Shrek Imax.
  
  Full time duties include: submit and monitor requests from all departments to the render farm respecting priority and achieving balance between queues. Examine each frame repairing those that can be fixed and filing a detailed report on those that cannot. Prepare rendered shots for film out by converting frames into specified movie files. Monitor the performance of render machines, production servers, and network machines. Manage emergencies that may arise on my shift in any of the above areas. Work closely with Sequence Superviso

  

  
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  Project Manager

  Hewlett-Packard

  January 1999 - July 2000

  Media Solutions department. Projects included internal web sites, web-brodcasting, web-based training, video encoding and streaming.
  
  Full time duties included: website design/maintenance, web programming, logo design, CD-ROM interface design, CD-ROM programming, video/audio streaming, customer relations, video/audio encoding, project management (coordination of efforts, quality assurance, financial planning, project scheduling, customer interfacing), PERL, JAVA, DHTML, CCS, Visual Basic, Flash programming.

• Media Designer

  Corporation for Studies and Analysis

  July 1995 - April 1997

  Part time duties included: graphic design, 2D and 3D animation, sound design, music composition, treatment writing, script writing, software authoring