Cruz deWilde

Hired on to help develop and refine the stereoscopic workflow of 3-D performance-capture animated films for a mid-stage startup company founded in 2007 by Disney and Robert Zemeckis. Responsibilities include integrating the left/right/center stereo camera layout with lighting and compositing pipelines, developing script-based tools for workflow automation, and exploring new techniques for enhancing the stereoscopic compositing and publishing processes.

Commissioned to create a digital animation to background a conference and paper presentation describing a two-component jet system emerging from an exploding star.  Later commissioned to create an animation describing gamma emission from the outer gap of a pulsar.

Rebuilt and textured a digital model of the NOAA-18 weather satellite for the new Morrison Planetarium's flagship production, "Fragile Planet”.

Created a series of six original animations for a nationally televised documentary on the GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope). The animations described the inner workings of the satellite, what it sees, and provided a visual exploration of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Responsible for the architecture, implementation, and sustaining engineering of three TeamSite content management systems, which serve as collaborative development environments for creating modular standardized tests for K-12 education.

Responsible for the architecture and implementation of PG&E’s intranet and internet search solutions using the Inktomi (now Verity) Enterprise Search Platform and TeamSite. Developed a number of Perl applications for automating the migration of web content and streamlining work-flow, including a dynamic hierarchical search taxonomy using Verity’s Content Classification Engine, and a universal JavaScript wrapper for internal web-based applications that ensures a consistent look and feel to the new intranet site without the need for an application server.

Launched an Artificial Intelligence research startup called "Emergent Minds, Inc." in San Francisco. Though the company closed within a year when my partner moved to Dallas, the experience provided some valuable training in establishing a corporate identity, writing federal grant proposals, and communicating a business plan to potential investors. My partner has recently taken the project through its first round of funding under the name "Neuroblast", and I continue to work with him developing animations for product marketing.

Responsible for the development and administration of Brocade’s TeamSite content-management system and heavily customized Inktomi search engines for Brocade’s internet, extranet, and intranet web sites. Served on the IT Architecture Council, and created over 20 self-sustaining information-management applications for streamlining work-flow as well as automating access and management of corporate systems and data.

Joined this fast-paced, early-stage Silicon Valley dot-com startup to lead the design and implementation of an automated, end-to-end management infrastructure for monitoring a wide-area network of check-cashing ATM’s using CA Unicenter and custom-designed SNMP agents. Received the highest annual performance rating (97%) of all 52 software engineers in the technology development department.

Designed and implemented an SNMP-based HP OpenView network management system for monitoring Microsoft’s world-wide telecommunications network, including technologies such as voice-over-IP, PBX switching systems, video-teleconferencing, broadband, voicemail, and more.

Designed and implemented a web-based Network Operations Center to manage a WAN of over 35,000 heterogeneous nodes (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, NT, MacOS, Cisco, Network Appliance, etc.) using HP Network Node Manager 6.0 as the base platform; capabilities include geographical and service-level views of the network, fault-management, performance-monitoring, system accounting, historical analysis, and security. Created several customized WEB applications from the ground-up using Perl, JavaScript, and VB as well as several C extensions to Network Node Manager using the OpenView API. Promoted twice within the first 18 months of hire.

Joined this early-stage software company during my junior year in college, and was promoted twice within my first year of hire, ultimately working with Engineering to QA test new components of Blyth’s primary software product, OMNIS7: a cross-platform programming environment for developing, deploying, and maintaining front-end client/server applications with connectivity to industry-standard databases through middleware such as ODBC, SQL*Link, and Open Client. Authored sample applications distributed to thousands of customers as examples of coding techniques.

• Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship
• Intensive four-week ‘Mini-MBA’ program designed to prepare students to launch entrepreneurial ventures

• M.F.A. Digital Animation & Visual Effects (full-time, in progress)

• Current GPA: 3.95, Expected Graduation: May 2009

• B.S. Symbolic Systems

• Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction