The Long & Short of It

I was multi-hyphenate before it was a thing.

I've worked in too many roles to count – everything from writer to director/camera to VFX supe to Flame op. I've animated on cels, with clay, in 3D, even recently with generative AI.

I've naturally found myself gravitating to leadership roles in many of these disciplines, mostly by striving to be the best at a thing, and thereby leading by example. Increasingly, I've gotten very good at leadership itself – beyond leading by doing into cultivating a culture of excellence, rigor, and self-motivation that multiplies upon itself.

Somewhat Abridged Greatest Hits™ :

• Friend-of- for nearly 20 years. Pushed a fair bit of work across the All-Seeing Eye of Steve Jobs. He thought I didn't suck.
• Feature animation experience (Blue Sky Studios): Ice Age and Robots. Good people and great work.
• Varied TV experience: CGI & Post Supe on The Sopranos (yes, including the infamous Lidia VFX reconstructions, AMA). A fair few pilots: Avatar (Original Animated Series), SpongeBob, Fairly OddParents, Backyardigans, Dick van Dyke Show reboot. VFX Supe on Michael Cuesta's Babylon Fields. 
• Put full CGI cars in foreground shots of TVCs before it was thought ready for primetime. Pontiac Solstice (2005), Acura MDX (2006). 
• Built a fully synthetic, CGI-based product photography pipeline for L'Oreal/Maybelline very far ahead of the curve. Too far, in fact, for the Parisian brand leadership... (but my way won in the end)
• Launched a drone off the Roof of Africa as part of an awareness raising film for the Mandela Foundation. Hypoxic piloting is a good time!
• Coded my first neural network in 2001 in Java... the ongoing (re)discovery of AI is amusing.
• Most recently: turned The Bad News Bears into The A-Team. Inherited a completely broken and poorly thought out internal design & production department and rebuilt it from the studs up.

The more boring LinkedIn version is below.