Cruz deWilde 937 Stanyan Street Apartment 2 San Francisco, CA 94117 phone: (415) 317-2042 email: dewilde@avantgravity.com portfolio: http://www.avantgravity.com/ ================================================== CRUZ DEWILDE ================================================== TECHNOLOGY SKILLS ================= 3-D Animation & VFX: Houdini, Maya, Nuke, After Effects, 3-D Studio Max, RealFlow, Final Cut, Adobe CS3 Application Development: Python, Perl, Mel, JavaScript, SQL HScript Systems Administration: Unix (SunOS/Solaris, Linux, HPUX), Windows, MacOS Web Technologies: HTML, XML, CGI, LDAP, TeamSite, Documentum, UltraSeek PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ======================= ImageMovers Digital San Rafael, CA 02/09 - present ----------------------------------------------------------- Stereoscopic Technical Director Hired on to help develop and refine the stereoscopic work- flow 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 en- hancing the stereoscopic compositing and publishing pro- cesses. NASA/Sonoma State San Francisco, CA 08/08 - 01/09 ----------------------------------------------------------- Lead Digital Animator (contract) 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. CA Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA 04/08 – 06/08 ----------------------------------------------------------- Digital Modeler Rebuilt and textured a digital model of the NOAA-18 weather satellite for the Morrison Planetarium's flagship production, "Fragile Planet”. NASA/Casadonte Group Mountain View, CA 03/08 – 05/08 ----------------------------------------------------------- Lead Digital Animator (contract) 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. CTB/McGraw-Hill San Francisco, CA 04/04 - 04/09 ----------------------------------------------------------- Content Management Architect Responsible for the architecture, implementation, and sustaining engineering of three TeamSite content management systems, which serve as collaborative development environ- ments for creating modular standardized tests for K-12 edu- cation. Pacific Gas & Electric Santa Cruz, CA 09/02 - 10/03 ----------------------------------------------------------- Web Applications Developer (PoR Intranet Team, Contract) 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 uni- versal JavaScript wrapper for internal web-based appli- cations that ensures a consistent look and feel to the new intranet site without the need for an application server. Emergent Minds, Inc. San Francisco,CA 03/02 - 09/02 ----------------------------------------------------------- Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer 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 con- tinue to work with him developing animations for product marketing. Brocade San Jose, CA 09/00 - 05/02 ----------------------------------------------------------- Senior Web Engineer (Web Technology Group) 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 Archi- tecture Council, and created over 20 self-sustaining infor- mation-management applications for streamlining work-flow as well as automating access and management of corporate systems and data. InnoVentry San Francisco, CA 08/99 - 09/00 ---------------------------------------------------------- Senior Software Developer (Infrastructure Engineering) Joined this fast-paced, early-stage Silicon Valley dot-com startup to lead the design and implementation of an auto- mated, end-to-end management infrastructure for monitoring a wide-area network of check-cashing ATM’s using CA Uni- center and custom-designed SNMP agents. Received the high- est annual performance rating (97%) of all 52 software engineers in the technology development department. Microsoft Redmond, WA 02/99 - 08/99 ---------------------------------------------------------- Software Design Engineer IV (Information Technologies Group, Contract) 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-teleconferenc- ing, broadband, voicemail, and more. Synopsys Mountain View, CA 12/96 - 02/99 ---------------------------------------------------------- Systems Administrator III (Core Services) 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 Appli- ance, 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. Blyth Software Foster City, CA 03/95 - 12/96 ---------------------------------------------------------- Product Support Engineer (Staff) Joined this early-stage software company during my jun- ior 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. EDUCATION ========= Stanford Business School Stanford, CA 06/08 – 07/08 ---------------------------------------------------------- • Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship • Intensive four-week ‘Mini-MBA’ program designed to prepare students to launch entrpreneurial ventures Academy of Art University San Francisco, CA 01/06-present ---------------------------------------------------------- • M.F.A. Digital Animation & Visual Effects (in progress) • Current GPA: 3.95 • Expected graduation: December, 2008 Stanford University Stanford, CA 09/92 – 12/96 ---------------------------------------------------------- • B.S. Symbolic Systems • Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction Anton-Philipp-Reclam-Schule Leipzig, Germany --------------------------------------------------------- • Youth for Understanding exchange program St. Albans School for Boys Washington DC --------------------------------------------------------- • Primary focus on foreign languages (Spanish, Japanese, German) and economics Course Certificates Various Locations --------------------------------------------------------- System Admin II for Documentum 5 EMC (Pleasanton, CA) 2005 System Admin I for Documentum 5 EMC (Pleasanton, CA) 2005 Technical Fundamentals of Documentum 5 EMC (Pleasanton, CA) 2004 Using JSP Technology in Dynamo ATGroup (San Francisco, CA) 2001 Server-Side Programming with Java ATGroup (San Francisco, CA) 2001 Practical Applications of XML Brocade (San Jose CA) 2001 Java Programming II GE Access (San Francisco, CA) 2001 TeamSite User Training Interwoven (Sunnyvale, CA) 2001 TeamSite System Administration Interwoven (Sunnyvale, CA) 2001 Gasper Manager Administration Gasper Corp. (Dayton, OH) 2000 Java Programming Sun Microsystems (McLean, VA) 1998 HP-UX 10.x System Admin for HP 9000 Hewlett-Packard (Atlanta, GA) 1997 HP-UX Troubleshooting Hewlett-Packard (Mt View, CA) 1997 Windows NT Administration Microsoft (San Jose, CA) 1997 OMNIS 7 v3 Programming Blyth Software (Foster City, CA) 1995 ======================================================== Cruz deWilde 937 Stanyan Street Apartment 2 San Francisco, CA 94117 phone: (415) 317-2042 email: dewilde@avantgravity.com portfolio: http://www.avantgravity.com/