• Teaching animation 101 - Photoshop and After Effects to incoming freshmen, short film making
• Teaching animation 108 - Cinematography for Visual Effects, Editing principles, short film making
• Teaching Art Experience 29 - 3D animation course using Maya. High School students go through the entire pipeline of animation in a 6 week course. They begin with character design and end with a fully rendered animation.

• Teaching careers in animation and VFX; professional practices, promotional materials, networking. 
• Interviewing, teaching techniques to stay on point and on track for successful outcomes in job interviews

• Teaching Junior Project 1 and 2 - students learn to make a short film in one semester. They learn the struggles and goals to achieve creating short films in a small in a short time frame. This preps them for their final year of filmmaking. 
• Teaching CFX: Cloth FX : Teaching students cloth simulation, set up, sim running, cleanup
• Teaching Animation 2: A continuation on the basic principles of animation. Exercises include : weight shifts, jumps, lifts, possessions.
• Teaching Rigging : Teaching character rigging; blend-shaping, paint-weights, controls with implementation, IK/FK setups for arms/legs/spines
• Teaching Advanced Rigging: Teaching quadruped and robot rigging, blendshaping, paint-weights, controls with implementations, teaching multiple IK FK leg spine and arm set ups

• Consulting on Rigging of characters and giving instructions to employees on how to proceed
• Teaching: Paint weight techniques to employees 

• Teaching the Creative Arts; Coming up with Course Plans per year to teach to the students
• Teaching drawing, painting and sculpture, and how the arts have affected us historically and in our communities today
• Helping students to understand time management and importance of repetitive tasks using game dynamics
• Teaching students to work together so we may all succeed and reach our goals using game dynamics

• Teaching graduate level and undergrad level classes; teaching proper rigging techniques
• Teaching character rigging; blend-shaping, paint-weights, controls with implementation, IK/FK setups for arms/legs/spines
• Teaching facial rigging; facial setups with GUI's
• Teaching advanced rigging; stretchy systems, bendy systems, ribbon systems, muscle systems, cloth systems
• Teaching careers in animation and VFX; professional practices, promotional materials, networking
• Teaching Directed Studies: one on one with students moving forward in rigging 
• Teaching CFX: Cloth FX: teaching students cloth simulation 
• Studio X Rigging: Studio experience for students: Supervising and overseeing short film projects that require rigging for animation. Studio X projects listed below:
  "Grounded" by Thomas de Maleingreau - Short Film June - Dec 2014 
• Rigging Supervisor, Model Advisor
• Oversaw creation of all character and prop rigs for project

• Biped Rig: Old man; Hector
• Creature Rig: Goose; Waldo
• Mechanical Rig: Plane Rig
• Prop Rigging: Hangar and all props inside

• Rigging Supervisor, Model Advisor
• Oversaw creation of all character and prop rigs for project 
• Managed rigging artists for:
  - Character Rigs: Biped; Jacob, Zeta Bear
  - Creature/Mechanical Rig; Nightling monster

• Rigging Supervisor, Model Advisor
• Oversaw creation of all character and prop rigs for this project
• Managed rigging artists for:
  - Character Rigs: Bipeds; Ninja Turtles
  - Prop Rigs: Weapons; bow staff, sai, katanas, nunchuks, ninja stars 

• Rigging Supervisor
• Oversaw rig fixes to pre-rigged characters
• Managed rigging artists for:
  - Character Rigs: Bipeds; Hank, Marvin, Honey

• Rigging Supervisor, Model Advisor
• Oversaw creation of character rigs for this project
• Managed rigging artists for:
  - Character Rig: Egg Cat 

• Rigging Supervisor, Model Advisor
• Oversaw creation of all character rigs for this project
• Managed rigging artists for:
  - Character Rigs: Bipeds; John, Paul, George, Ringo, Scarf Girl

• Rigging Supervisor
• Oversaw creation of character rigs on this project 
• Managed rigging artists for:
  - Character Rig - Biped - Paperman

• Rigging Supervisor, Model Advisor 
• Oversaw creation of Character and Creature rigs on this project 
• Managed rigging artists for:
  - Character Rig: Biped; The knight
  - Creature Rigs: Chicken, Fire Chicken, Octo Dragon

• Character TD/Rigger on four main characters for cloth simulation
• Rigging, painting weights, control implementations.
• mel scripts
• blendshapes

• Character TD/Rigger on the main character for commercial test
• Rigging, painting weights, control implementations.
• Mel scripting
• blendshape support

• Character TD/Rigger on the vehicle used in the short film.
• Rigging, painting weights, control implementations.

• Character TD/Rigger on one of two main characters for the short film.
• Rigging, painting weights, control implementations.

• Character TD - Rigging - rigging on complex characters for animation for real time engine (Havok) use 
• painting weights
• CFX - Cloth setup and simulations on character for real time engine (Havok)
• Project Lead for animators: Responsible for hiring animators and overseeing work sent down the pipeline to completion
• Project Lead for modelers: Responsible for hiring 3D modelers and overseeing work sent down the pipeline to completion
• Animation Layout -setting up scenes for animators
• Lighting - Lighting scenes in Maya 
• programs: Maya 2012, 2013

• Character TD - Rigging - facial setup and rigging on complex characters for animation and 3D printing
• Painting weights
• Blendshaping - facial blendshape creation and application on characters for animation and 3D printing
• MEL scripting
• Fixes for animators 
• Programs: Maya 2012, 2013, Shotgun, linux

• CFX: Cloth Sim Artist
• Cloth simulations and clean up
• Blendshapes for Cloth
• Animation for cloth
• Programs: Maya 2011, Maya 2012, Shotgun, Linux

• CFX: Cloth Sim Artist
• Cloth prep and set up
• Cloth simulations
• Blendshapes for Cloth
• Geocaching scenes for cloth/lighting/blends
• Animation for cloth
• Programs: Maya 2011, Maya 2012, Shotgun, Linux

• CFX: Cloth Sim Artist
• Cloth simulations and clean up
• Blendshapes for Cloth
• Animation for cloth
• Programs: Maya 2011, Maya 2012, Shotgun, Linux

• Character TD
• Rigging, character set-up,control implementations, paint weights, corrective blends
• Prop rigging
• Facial Rigging, fixes for animators
• Rig layouts for animators
• Scripting

• Character TD in the apprentice program for the Feature Film Division
• Rigging, Character Set-up, Facial set-up, paint weights, corrective blends
• MEL scripting, linux
• Tech Anim - Cloth Hair and Fur set up AND simulations

• Character TD - Rigging, Painting weights, control implementations
• HIK skeletal set ups and matching for rigs designed for blending between mocap and animation sequences
• Scripting
• Scene prep for animators
• Geocaching scene files for lighting and cloth/hair sims
• Cloth TD - cloth sims on characters

• Lead Character TD. Overseeing progress of work done by student riggers.
• Maintaining quality of work and quality of rigs.
• Monkey and Robot Winner of Animation Magazine's Pitch party for both 2009 and 2010.

• Faculty - Directed Study Advisor to MFA students
• Teaching the proper implementations of character set up and rigging
• Teaching the proper implementations of the Maya Muscle System

• Cloth TD - Cloth Sims on Trailer
• Maya 2010

• Faculty - Directed Study Advisor to MFA students
• Teaching students the proper implementations of Rigging

• Character TD: Rigging for cinematics for the DCU MMO.
• Rigging, painting weights, control implementations.
• Maya 2010

• Technical Animator : Cloth, Hair, Fur TD
• Cloth,hair and fur simulations and clean up in post production.
• Proprietary Software, Linux

• Character TD: Rigging the main character for animation
• Maya 2009

• Character TD: Rigging the main character for animation
• Maya 2009

• Character TD: Rigging a character for mocap & Painting Weights
• Maya 8.5

• Academy Art University c/o 2009 (BFA in animation emphasis on Rigging)
• College of Marin (transfer)
• Salesian High School c/o 98

Skills

• Rigging
• Facial Rigging
• Paint Weights
• Mel Scripting
• Linux & unix w.proprietary software
• Muscle System
• Control Rig Setup and Implementation
• Simple and Complex Character Skeletal Setup
• Prop Rigs
• Blendshapes on Cloth
• Blendshapes on Faces
• Cloth
• Fur
• Hair

• Maya
• Adobe Suite CS4: PhotoShop, After Effects
• Shotgun