roland watson

Work History

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  Data Tech / Sys Admin

  One Of Us

  August 2012 - Present

  Installation and set-up of Centos,Windows and Mac operating systems, Software package installation Adobe,Autodesk,Nuke,3DE.
  Data management, archive/restores, FTP, Aspera, VPN.
  General day to day systems / tech helpdesk tasks.
  Monitor Calibration.
  
  Film Projects-
  Under the Skin

  

  
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  John carter - Stereoscopic Co-ordinator

  Cinesite

  February 2011 - January 2012

  John Carter - Stereoscopic Coordinator
  Coordinated internal and external teams, scheduled and prioritised work.
  Updated show project database with current job statuses
  Core contact for editorial status changes from external editorial clients
  Organised daily client review of current work with the external production clients (Pixar)
  Facilitated delivery of production data from external stereo vendors and internal mono vendor.
  Arranged export of client approved production data to the external production clients.
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  Digital Resource Manager

  MPC

  2004 - 2010

  Managed the film production data servers
  Assessed daily production data usage and allocated server space.
  Key data dept contact for local and global commercial / film production teams.
  Originated and implemented data server policies.
  Directed and mentored the Data department. Recruited, trained, scheduled and prioritised work.
  Undertook performance reviews of the data team on a probationary and annual basis
  
  Projects worked on include -
  Clash of the Titans
  Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
  Watchman
  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  Harry Pot
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  Production Co-ordinator Xmen3

  MPC

  2005 - 2006

  Tracked shots against main production schedule
  Liaison between 2D / 3D crews and the Project Producer / Supervisor.
  Managed show production data.
  Arranged internal and external reviews of current work.
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  Digital Resource Manager

  Wētā FX

  June 2002 - May 2004

  Digital Resource Manager - The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers, The Return of the King
  Managed the digital production servers online/offline/nearline
  Allocated production server space
  Key data contact for production supervisors / coordinators and sequence teams.
  Requested data movements/archives/restores from the data wrangler department.
  Maintained production asset library
  Coordinated delivery of production data for external client (Peter Jackson) review calls.

  

  
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  Production Co-ordinator / Mill Film Disk Manager

  Millfilm

  October 2000 - June 2002

  Coordinated production team and tracked work through production pipeline.
  Organised external client reviews of current work
  Updated production database with client feedback and editorial status.
  Managed incoming / outgoing production data to and from external production client.
  Allocated production server space.
  Projects worked on include -
  Cats and Dogs
  Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
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  Data-ops

  Cinesite

  1997 - 2000

  Maintained and allocated production server space
  Carried out production data requests
  Organised resources for computational rendering
  Monitor Calibration