Production Lead High-End

MICHAEL J. GUDZ 415-***-****

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CAREER HISTORY

Schawk! Inc. - June 2008 to March 2009

CGI Specialist & 3D Production Lead

Electronic Arts, Factor Design, Seagate.

Quad/Graphics Inc. - May 2005 to June 2008

Color Sponsor

I gained valuable knowledge and relationships with new and existing clients which led to my promotion as Color Sponsor for weekly and monthly product catalogs for Dell Home Computers. As our workload increased, I was also given the opportunity to represent the company for national publications including Bark Magazine, Mother Jones, and a boutique children’s nursery catalog, Serena & Lily. During high production times I also provided support for California Magazine, Sierra, Stanford, Sunset, Wired, and Yoga Journal. Freelance - February 2010 to Present

CGI Generalist, Internal Contractor

3D/2D generalist, Creative Retoucher providing high-end renderings and retouching for various agencies of their internal clients. Clients included AAA, Beauty Army, Columbia, Corning Gorilla Glass, Dickies, Doritos, HP, LUCID Motors, McDonalds, MINI Cooper, Mission Foods, Pepsi, Priceline, Restoration Hardware, San Francisco GIANTS, Sorel, under Valley Casino, Virgin America.

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Associate of Liberal Arts - June 2004

City College - San Francisco, CA

Strong emphasis in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Film/Cinema. EDUCATION

Associate of Science, Computer Animation - August 2000 Full Sail University - Winter Park, FL

Core studies included all phases of animation and audio/video production. Received Course Director’s award in Sociology. 3D

Maya Unlimited 1.0 - 202x, Vray, Redshift, Cinema4D, Modo, Blender, Substance, Keyshot SOFTWARE & HARDWARE PROFICIENCY

2D

Advanced knowledge in pre-press production environments from high-end retouching and color management/ to page assembly. ACM/SIGGRAPH

Graphics conference attendee and Studio/3D Animation subcommittee member introducing animation techniques to attendees from 2000-2004. Attended 1999 as Full Sail Humanbooth member in recognition of academic achievements. AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Member active in historical newsletter archives and technology meetings. Adobe CC suite(Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After E ects, Premiere), Final Cut Pro Expert production knowledge in modeling, texturing, lookdev, camera matchmoving, particles/dynamics, scene optimization and render farm utilization.

Extensive compositing/video editorial experience using After E ects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere. Web

Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML/XML, PHP

Experienced from design to implementation and maintenance. Ability to hand-code HTML and intermediate knowledge of PHP. Programming Languages

C++, MS-DOS, UNIX, Intermediate knowledge of Python, MEL

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