Provided the overall IT infrastructure design to allow a site to produce animation under an outsource with local leads model
Constantly preparing ongoing cost and capital expense scenarios based on a deep knowledge of our industry (Animation)
Project management for most IT centric technical work at this site
Core design emphasis was to allow a dynamic business strategy and minimize infrastructure cost of any strategy changes
Respec network to support animation production work
Respec core storage/SAN to allow creation of animation at a feature production pace
Define storage needs to support animation production work
Define IT needs for all job positions at the company from PA to Artist to executive
Source and direct vendors
Specify servers and related VM Infrastructure
Prepare IT budget items and all user facing IT/ computing needs for every job position from PA to Technical animator to Executive.
Improved site'spurchase tracking process to allow better expense tracking
Improved site's detail view into actual expenses for finance and executives
Regular consulting with sister site's teams to address Production and IT needs
Systems Administrator
DreamWorks Animation
November 2013 - February 2015
Glendale
Systems Administrator for the Television Division
Spec servers (physical and VMs) for TD tool servers
Package management for the coding staff/ TDs on Linux and Win
Spec servers (physical and VMs) for large production apps.
License servers creation and administration
Helped with licensing implementation and strategy
Automount support
3rd party applications (mostly animation production related apps)
Linux RHEL support
Windows support (Win7, Server 2003, Server 2008)
Animation app support (Maya, Houdini, Nuke, etc)
AD and LDAP account support
Systems Administrator
DreamWorks Animation
September 2000 - November 2013
Redwood Shores, CA
PDI was a subsidiary of DreamWorks animation, having been bought.
License servers creation and administration
Helped with licensing implementation and strategy
Multi protocol filesharing on Samba and other software based sharing services.
NetApp administration (Ontap)
Automount support
3rd party applications (mostly animation production related apps)
Thin client installs for Linux
Linux RHEL support
Windows support (Win7, Server 2003, Server 2008)
Animation app support (Maya, Houdini, Nuke, etc)
AD and LDAP account support
Spec servers (physical and VMs) for TD tool servers
Spec servers (physical and VMs) for large production apps
Systems Administrator
Trendmasters
September 1999 - September 2000
Greater St. Louis Area
Systems administrator for the 3D animation group (SGI and Windows)
Toy Design
Trendmasters
September 1999 - September 2000
Greater St. Louis Area
Designed toy shells for Rumble Robots, BabyBot, Applebot in Maya.
Some behavior code for these toy lines.