Michael Jefferies

Work History

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  Senior Software Engineer

  Pixar

  April 2021 - Present

• Product Development Manager

  Pointwise, Inc.

  August 2014 - March 2021
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  Tools TD

  Reel FX

  January 2012 - August 2014

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  Implemented the Animation Slices tool to enable multiple animators to simultaneously work on different rigs in the same shot. This includes the following components:
  * Maya C++ Plugin for import, export and display of mesh and cameras in Alembic format
  * Maya MEL Scripts to playblast shots encoded with asset information
  * RV Python Plugin to allow selection of assets in a playblast, including building of slices
  
  Implemented various pipeline and Maya tools for set assembly and asset management using MEL and python, including animated set pieces with ability to apply per-shot overrides.
  
  Designed and implemented new feature and hotfix release process with a git backend that is used by all in-house developers.
  
  Credits include Freebirds (2013), The Book of Life (2014) and Rockdog (2017).
  

  

  

• Software Engineering Specialist

  Pointwise, Inc.

  May 2002 - January 2012
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  Senior Software Engineer

  Intel Corporation

  May 1997 - April 2002

  Chandler, AZ

  Software engineer in the Consumer Media Technologies group for Intel Labs, contributing to projects in the areas of infrastructure, audio, and networking:
  * Developed internet streaming MPEG playback stack, MP3 playback stack, Dolby Digital and Dolby ProLogic audio codec optimizations for MMX and SSE processors, Universal Plug and Play expertise
  * Achieved first industry implementation and certification of a Dolby Digital decoder based on the 7.0 reference source
  * The media appliance device developed by my team was featured in the CES 2001 Keynote by Intel CEO Craig Barret with the Blue Man Group