Marco Romeo

Work History

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  Lead Software Engineer

  MPC

  January 2015 - Present
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  Master in Computer Animation - Director

  Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  October 2011 - January 2015

  Director of the Master course in Computer Animation at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
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  Senior Software Developer

  MPC

  July 2014 - December 2014

• Research and Development Supervisor

  Bee and Bird animation studios

  January 2014 - June 2014
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  Character TD

  SKARA - THE BLADE REMAINS LIMITED

  September 2013 - December 2013

  Developing an automatic rigging system for the game's characters and providing animation tools.

• Pipeline Engineer / Consultant

  Bee and Bird Animation Studios Barcelona

  February 2013 - December 2013

  As a Pipeline Engineer and Consultant at Bee and Bird Animation Studios I'm helping the team to define the production flow and develop tools and processes to deal with data flow.
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  Teacher of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)

  Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  October 2004 - December 2013

  As a teacher in Computer Animation, I teach the use of Autodesk Maya from the it's philosofy and basic features to the more advanced tools and workflows.
  The course includes:
  Maya Foundations
  Nurbs and Polygonal modeling
  UVs and Texturing
  Shading
  Lighting
  Rendering with Maya Software/Hardware and Mental ray
  Rigging
  Animation basics
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  Researcher

  Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  January 2004 - November 2013

  I've been researching in the fields of Computer Graphics and Computer Animation, developing automated processes and intelligent tools for CGI Media Production.
  Projects:
  - IMPART (https://impart.upf.edu/)
  - Noa & Max (https://www.noamaxproject.com/)
  - Barcelona World Race, The Game (https://www.thegame-barcelonaworldrace.org/)
  - Barcelona World Race, Automatic Sign Language News (https://www.rtve.es/radio/20110121/borja-ens-informa-barcelona-world-race/396895.shtml)
  - I3Media (https://i3media.barcelonamedia.org/)
  - Salero (https://www.salero.eu/)
  - IP-RACINE (https://cordis.europa.eu/ist/kct/ip-racine_synopsis.htm)
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  Character TD / tools and pipeline engineer

  post23

  July 2012 - October 2012

  During my stay at Post23 I've been working at the effects for the mind game sequences of the Ender's Game film.
  My tasks where mainly related to:
  > taking technical decisions
  > supporting rigging with custom tools and plugins
  > creating a facial capture system
  > mapping system for body and facial captured data
  > creating pipeline tools for custom data storage and management of assets

• Tools and Pipeline Research and Development

  Sixbirds Productions SL.

  January 2010 - January 2011

  Research and Developing an asset delivery tool with full integration with Tweak Software's RV and Shotgun Studio.
  Research and Developing an asset and task tracking system to help production.
  Research and Developing parts of the in-house translator from XSI to Arnold Renderer (from Solid Angle).
  Developing some aspects of the skin and hair shaders.
  Developing production tools for XSI.

• Technical Director

  MediaPro Group

  October 2007 - June 2008

  I've leaded the CGI department (30 people) for the creation of an Omnimax movie that represented Spain at the 2008 Universal Expo in Zaragoza (Spain).
  The video has been awarded with the 2008 Domie Award (Chicago, 2008)