Eric Bermender

Current

• Sr. Systems Engineer at ImageMovers Digital

Past

• Senior Systems Engineer at Digital Domain
• IT Infrastructure Architect Contractor at Rotofactory Inc.
• Senior Systems Engineer at Industrial Light and Magic

• Visual Effects Supervisor at Sonnet Films

see less...

1 more...

Education

• Cogswell Polytechnical College

Recommended

4 people have recommended Eric

Connections

68 connections

Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Eric Bermender’s Experience

• Sr. Systems Engineer

  ImageMovers Digital

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  -I'm initially working on projects to prepare IT gear for the company move to a new facility being built.

• Senior Systems Engineer

  Digital Domain

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; D2; Animation industry)

  April 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  -Desktop and Render Server Systems Architect
  -OS and Software heterogeneous integration in production pipelines
  -Data Center architect and power management
  
  Some recent examples:
  
  * creating a render server linux network boot image which uses ramdisk and aufs
  * deployment of 64bit debian image to 400+ desktops & 900+ render servers
  * implemented vmware so users can boot directly off a local windows partition or boot off that same partition through linux.
  * create puppet server for linux sync, a ghost server for windows sync, a syslong-ng server, ganglia server, a local debian repository and mirror, and implemented various configs for nis, nfs, ldap, dns, & dhcp servers.
  * In 1 month, architect and implemented an emergency plan to install render servers at a co-location facility 30 miles away from our file servers.

• IT Infrastructure Architect Contractor

  Rotofactory Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)

  I was contracted to help implement a back end CGI & IT infrastructure on a tight budget.
  
  various projects included setting up a windows domain, user groups, and group policies. created a file server which uses an encrypted data storage system. Used vmware to host multiple service machines for ftp, web sites, and email. Integration of OSX machines in the windows domain.

• Senior Systems Engineer

  Industrial Light and Magic

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  April 1998 — April 2007 (9 years 1 month)

  started out as a night time systems operator keeping the facility running overnight. Moved into server support and integration
  Finished out my last 3 years in Systems Engineering helping to Architect the backend pipeline and completing other assorted future looking task (i.e. testing new processors, designing ways to implement new technology in the current pipeline)

• Visual Effects Supervisor

  Sonnet Films

  (Public Company; Myself Only; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  March 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 4 months)

  An independent film in which I did all of the live action visual effects. The bulk of the work was paint and roto with some key compositing scenes. About 80 shots total.
  
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279683/

Eric Bermender’s Education

• Cogswell Polytechnical College

  BA , Computer & Video Imaging , 1995 — 1997

  Cum Laude