Leo Chan

Work History

• 

  Senior Software Engineer (AR/VR)

  Amazon

  June 2017 - Present

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Responsible for the real-time animation and graphics engine and editor for Amazon Web Services's AR/VR platform.
• 

  Senior Software Engineer (Games/Cinematics)

  Amazon

  2014 - June 2017

  Responsible for all aspects of the Cinematics feature set in Lumberyard, Amazon's Game Engine, including coding, design, customer relationships, and technical and product strategy. This enables designers, artists and programmers to Lumberyard to create films for in-game scenes and rendered movies.
• 

  Creative Technology Director

  A Thinking Ape

  February 2014 - August 2014

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Responsible for studio-wide game concept innovation process, production and technical lead for a new free-to-play multiplayer mobile game.
• 

  Director of Technology

  Pixar

  January 2013 - November 2013

  Vancouver, Canada

  Responsible for studio-wide IT and technology teams and strategy spanning render farm, workstations, network storage, proprietary and third party software development and integration, production tracking and accounting systems, remote collaboration connectivity, tools and vendor relationships.
• 

  Production Engineering and Rendering Lead

  Pixar

  April 2010 - December 2012

  - Responsible for proprietary software development for Modeling, Texturing, Animation, Lighting and Rendering systems.
  - Leadership and Management for the Production Engineering Team (4)
  - Liaison to artists and managers for technical production issues and prioritization
  - Leadership and Management of the Rendering Team (4)
• 

  Director of Technology, Content Production

  Electronic Arts

  2006 - April 2010

  - Responsible for Computer Graphics Techniques Innovation, specializing in procedural techniques for terrain generation, texturing and process automation
  - Directed CG Supervisors and mentored change management techniques
  - Architected and Directed Technical Pipeline Technologies, Tools and Processes