Jon Parkins

Jon Parkins

FX Artist / Sys Admin @ Warner Bros Supernatural

Junior 3D Generalist & FX Artist / Supervisor IT Manager / 7 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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IT Manager

Sleeping Dogs (2012)

FX Artist / Systems Admin

Supernatural (2005)

Digital Compositor

Fire (2005)

IT Manager

Little Big Planet Karting

It Manger

Mod Nation Racers

Smash+Grab

Jr FX Artist on Supernatural, as well as systems administration.

Previously systems administration at both game and TV series studios. Mostly MS Windows environments, but with mixed OS support and supporting the full range of studio needs, storage, networking, communications, etc.
Work History

  • Director of Technical Operations & FX Artist

    Get Set Games

    December 2019 - February 2024
    London, United Kingdom

  • Consultant

    Get Set Games

    June 2019 - December 2019

  • System Administrator / FXTD

    VFX Supernatural

    August 2017 - April 2019
    Burnaby, BC

    Keeping the IT flow moving, and helping out on FX/TD work on the 13th season of the show Supernatural.

  • IT Manager / Sr Sys Admin

    United Front Games (Vancouver, Canada)

    November 2007 - October 2016
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    In charge of all design, implementation, maintenance and support of the studio. Primarily a Windows shop, but as with most places we have a mixed environment, with some OS X and Linux machines/servers.

  • Systems Administrator / IT

    Pseudo Interactive

    January 2006 - October 2007

    Dealt with all of the studios IT related issues, file storage, networking, VOIP.

  • Systems Administrator

    Get Ed Productions

    2004 - 2005

    IT / Systems administrator for studio. Dealing with all technology concerns, from AD, Exchange, switch configuration, VOIP, Backups and so on

  • Systems Administrator / IT

    Elliott Animation

    2001 - 2004

    IT / Systems administrator for studio. Dealing with all technology concerns, from AD, Exchange, switch configuration, Backups and so on

  • Systems Administrator

    Red Rover Animation

    2001 - 2002
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Education

  • Mastering Destruction with Houdini

    CGMA

    October 2018 - December 2018

  • Intro to Houdini

    CGMA

    May 2017 - July 2017

  • Live Action VFX

    Allan McKay Live Action Series

    August 2016 - July 2017

  • Diploma in Computer Graphics - Technical

    Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

    1999 - 2001

  • Ajax High

    ? - ?