Prapanch Swamy

Work History

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  External Mentor

  Innovation Hub at Carleton University

  January 2022 - Present

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  Creative Technologist | Product & Engineering Management

  Invisible Thread

  July 2021 - Present

  Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

  Undisclosed (M&E Content Management) - Project Lead (July 2021- Present)
  Undisclosed (M&E Cloud Solutions Provider #1) - Solutions Architect (February 2022 - Present)
  Undisclosed (M&E Cloud Solutions Provider #2) - Solutions Architect (February 2022 - Present)
  Undisclosed (M&E Cloud Solutions Provider #3) - Solutions Architect (March 2022 - Present)
  Undisclosed (Internal Development) - Product & Engineering Consultant (January 2022 - Present)
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  Product & Engineering Management Consultant

  Self-employed

  November 2020 - October 2021

  Nexodus (VFX) - Lighting/Rendering Project Consultant (Nov 2021 - Jan 2021)
  Undisclosed "L***" (E-Commerce) - Digital Asset Management Project (Jan 2021- April 2021)
  Undisclosed "T****" (E-Commerce) - Technical Project Manager (Feb 2021- March 2021)
  Undisclosed "N***" (Social E-Commerce) - Program Manager (Jan 2021 - April 2021)
  Undisclosed "I***" (Social E-Commerce) - Interim Product Manager (July 2021 - August 2021)
  Undisclosed "N******" (M&E Virtual Production) - Virtual Production Supervisor (September 2021 - November 2021)
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  Director of Technology | Virtual Production Product & Engineering

  Versatile Media Ltd

  March 2021 - July 2021

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Technology
  - Responsible for all technology utilized by Studio Management, Operations, M&E Production and Technology organizations.
  
  Virtual Production (XR) Product Management
  - Responsible for our foundation of productizing our Virtual Production (XR) stages, pipeline and production practices using discovery, planning and execution frameworks.
  
  Virtual Production (XR) Engineering
  - Responsible for building, developing and maintaining our Engineering organizations which includes
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  Senior Product Manager

  Wayfair

  March 2020 - February 2021

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  Senior Product Manager - Catalog Media: Create
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  Head of 3D & Senior CG Supervisor

  Pixomondo

  September 2017 - February 2020

  Vancouver, BC Canada

  Film:
  A Dog's Way Home (January 2019) - CG Supervisor (Sony Pictures Feature Film)
  Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (October 2018) - CG Supervisor (Sony Pictures Feature Film)
  Kim Possible (2019) - CG Supervisor (Disney Channel Feature Film)
  Child's Play (2019) - CG Supervisor (Feature Film)
  Pegasus (February 2019) - Division CG Supervisor (Feature Film)
  The Hunt (2019) - Head of 3D (Feature Film)
  Midway (2019) - Head of 3D (Feature Film)
  The Water Man (2020) - Head of 3D (Feature Film)
  Fengshen Trilogy (2020) - Division Head of 3D (Feature Film)
  Greenland (2020) - Division Head of 3D (Feature Film)
  
  Television:
  Siren, Season 1 (March 2018) - CG Supervisor (Disney+ Television Pilot & Series)
  Snowpiercer, Season 1 (2020) - CG Supervisor (TNT/Turner Television Pilot & Series)
  The Magicians, Season 3 (January 2018) - CG Supervisor (SyFy Television Series)
  The Magicians, Season 4 (January 2019) - CG Supervisor (SyFy Television Series)
  The OA, Season 2 (March 2019) - CG Supervisor (Netflix T
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  Senior Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  April 2013 - September 2017

  Meg (2018) - Lighting Lead/Supervisor & FX Lookdev
  Emojimovie: Express Yourself (2017) - Show Lighting Lead
  Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) - Show Lighting Lead
  Ghostbusters (2016) - Lighting Lead & FX Lookdev
  Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass (2016) - Lighting Lead and Lookdev Artist
  Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) - Senior Lookdev, Lighting, and Compositing Technical Director
  Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - Senior Lighting Technical Director
  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) - Senior Lighting Technical Director
  Edge Of Tomorrow (2014) - Senior Lighting Technical Director
  
  Sony Pictures Entertainment Applause Award - May 2015
  Sony Pictures Entertainment Applause Award - June 2016

  

  

  

  
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  Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  August 2012 - March 2013

  Pacific Rim (2013) - Lighting/Effects Technical Director
  The Lone Ranger (2013) - Lighting/Effects Technical Director
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  Senior Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  March 2012 - July 2012

  Hotel Transylvania (2012) - Senior Lighting & Compositing Technical Director
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  Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  October 2011 - February 2012

  Battleship (2012) - Lighting/Effects Technical Director

  

  

  

  

  
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  Freelancer

  Method Studios

  August 2011 - October 2011

  Verizon 4G LTE (2011) - Lighting, Lookdev and Digimatte
  Verizon/NFL (2011) - Lighting
  Grumman Northrop (2011) - Lighting and Lookdev
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Industrial Light & Magic

  November 2010 - June 2011

  Cowboys & Aliens (2011) - Lighting/Effects Technical Director
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  Lighter

  DreamWorks Animation

  May 2010 - October 2010

  Megamind (2010) - Senior Lighter

  
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  January 2009 - January 2010

  Avatar (2009) - Shots TD (Lighting and Effects)
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  Senior Lighting Technical Director

  Framestore

  October 2007 - November 2008

  The Tale of Despereaux (2008) - Senior Lighting Technical Director

  
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  Technical Director

  Blue Sky Studios

  September 2005 - September 2007

  Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - Lighting Technical Director
  Horton Hears a Who (2008) - Fur Technical Director and Effects Technical Director
  Ice Age 3 (2009) - Effects Technical Director

  

  

  

• Medical Visualization Specialist

  Break The Glass, Inc.

  September 2001 - September 2005

  Burr Ridge, IL 60527

  Projects:
  - Craniosacral Biodynamic Visualization for Illinois Chiropractic Society - https://www.ilchiro.org/
  - X-ray Crystallography Data Pipeline and Visualization Workflow at University of Chicago's Moffat Labs - https://moffat.bsd.uchicago.edu/
  

• Instructor

  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  August 2004 - August 2005

  Instructed four undergraduate/graduate courses in CG animation, modeling, effects and compositing.

• Technical Assistant

  Digital Kitchen LLC

  May 2001 - December 2001

  Assisted VFX Supervisor, Flame/Inferno Artists and Creative Directors on several television spots, bumpers and title sequences.