Engineer Software
Resume:
Blake Senftner
Burbank, CA 91505
Voice: 213-***-****
Email: *********@*********.***
Software Engineering MBA and Accomplished Manager who loves building Great Teams, User Friendly
Technologies, and Superior Environments for technology dependant organizations.
Equally comfortable writing code for software projects, managing development teams, and producing/project
managing media teams, as well as operations management & financial analysis unrelated to software development.
I have substantial cross-disciplinary skills, capable of bridging the gaps between non-technical and technical
individuals. I design and implement efficient, enterprise class systems, as well as clearly and succinctly
communicate these systems for operations and non-technical use. I have superior optimization capabilities, both in
software as well as with operations and personnel. I am known to bring calm to high-pressure development and
production environments.
Software Languages, APIs and Application Environments:
o C, C++, OpenGL, GLSL, Advanced BASH, OS Services and daemons
o PHP, SQL, Java Script, JQuery, XHTML, CSS
o Drupal sites, custom modules, advanced Services & Flash integration, eCommerce and more
o Excel VBA (guru level), plus the complete suite of MS Office (guru level at MS Word too)
o Maya & 3DS MAX 3D Graphics, Animation & Feature Film VFX Production
o Photoshop, Gimp, Shake, pretty much any graphics or compositing software out there
o Lisp, Concurrent Euclid, Pascal, Cobol, Basic
o Equally comfortable in Linux, Mac OS X, MS Windows, as well as embedded & proprietary systems
Skills:
o Web Development, 2008-Present
o Beyond general web development and graphic design skills, I have intermediate to advanced skills with the
Drupal content management system, creating graphically pleasing and media rich web sites that include
blogs, forums, galleries, videos, easy page editing, and Web 2.0 user interfaces. My Drupal skills include
eCommerce, custom module development, custom themes and advanced web applications.
o http://www.DigitalDollHouse.com on 3-person team porting eCommerce site to Drupal 6
o http://www.ecoprowater.com created eCommerce site for water purifier company
o http://www.JewelOfTheAdriatic.com an online documentary promoting Montenegro
o http://www.usmnebc.org US Montenegro Business Council
o http://montenegrin.usmnebc.org above web site s Montenegrin language version
o http://www.homemastersre.com a real estate developer
o http://www.lpcpaint.com/drupal_6_14 a paint & construction contracting company
o http://theBasics.popdigitaltech.com a financial education company
o http://www.BlakeSenftner.com my personal resume web site
o Systems design, development, deployment, and optimization
o Founder & CEO, 2005-Present: Flixor Inc, a 3D visual effects technology company; formed corporation;
recruited partners; secured partnerships; managed all staff, accounting and finances. See www.flixor.com.
o I recruited a team with Academy Award winning visual effects backgrounds, the #1 patent firm in the
world, and a diverse set of highly skilled business partners.
o Designed and implemented completely automated visual effects pipeline capable of taking a single photo
of a person and realistically replacing an actor in filmed media with the photo s likeness; system spanned
multiple operating systems, technologies, and disciplines including artificial intelligence, realistic 3D
animation, and large scale web applications.
o In addition to personally developing a significant portion of the software, I wrote the business plan, the
financial projections, and economic forecasting models the business models are based. I wrote the patent,
as well as many of the initial drafts of many of our contracts and legal documents.
Blake Senftner
o Awarded US Patent 7460731 Personalizing A Video": processes and apparatus for creating libraries of
digital actors, libraries of personalization-ready media, and the automated creation of advertising and
popular media with consumers and product placements realistically inserted.
o Freelance MBA Consultant, 2005-Present: creating business plans, financial forecasts, and general
consulting for businesses and start ups, with clients including:
o Tait & Associates: successful project as Federal EPA lobbyist for environmental architecture firm
o Gloria Martinez Law Immigration Group: compensation system analysis, created their web site
o http://www.askourlawfirm.com
o Breast Health & Wellness Center: technology analysis, automated breast health analysis software system
design, financial and operations forecasts, general strategy analysis
o http://www.breasthealthandwellness.com
o Mist Net Inc: complete business plan, financial forecasts, web site, 3D product visualizations
o http://www.mistnetinc.com
o Innovmed Inc / Laprostop LLC: private placement offering prospectus, 3D product visualizations
o http://innovamed-us.com/
o Federal Tag Inc: RFID tracking system s monitoring application software design specification
o Financial and Operations Analyst, 2002-2005, for Rhythm & Hues Studios: analysis of digital artist
productivity and studio bidding process, created a statistical forecasting system in Excel allowing highly
accurate forecasts of production activities, including identification of the production team s learning curve;
performed analysis for 6 major release feature films.
o Lead Software Engineer, 1994-1998, at Rhythm & Hues Studios, founding their Games Division, designed
and co-authored entire production pipeline for advanced film-quality 3D graphics in early PlayStation
environment, co -authored 3D game engine, scripting language, multiple character AIs and multiple game
levels, as well as trained 17 person game scripting team.
o Software Engineering with an emphasis on Media Production
o Behavior Animation A.I. Engineer, 2001-2002 at Pandemic Studios: authoring player artificial intelligences
for a 3D volleyball game in C++ for the PlayStation2, plus additional related game features.
o Director of Research, 2000-2001, at Rotor Communications: a pre-YouTube streaming video web site
focused on interactive web video; managed projects for the NHL, RealNetworks, Apple QuickTime support,
as well as writer and producer of 45 minute variety talk show.
o Technical Director, 1998-2000, at Adrenalin / Sennari Games, managing 20 person engineering and artist
staff in PlayStation video game production of Tiger Woods Golf, NCAA Football, Brunswick Bowling 1 & 2,
and Flintstones Bowling; evaluated new platforms, generally managed all staff, wrote code for productions.
o Lead Software Engineer, 1994, at Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo, working with the original
PlayStation Operating System team creating and fine tuning the original PSX development environment
Education
MBA: Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, 2005
o 4.0 GPA, earning Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society
o Dual majors in Entrepreneurialism and Finance, minor in Internal Business
BS/BA: School of Management, Boston University, 1988
o 3.86 GPA, Management Information Systems, with additional advanced studies in Statistics & Economics
o Senior 3D Graphics Consultant, Boston University 3D Graphics Lab, 1985-1988
References are available upon request.
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