VFX Geek for hire and all 'round good guy
Montreal, Canada Area
- Current
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- Technical Director at Hookolo
- Editor in Chief at XSIBlog
- Past
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- Visual Effect Technical Supervisor at Vision Globale
- Resident Geek at Buzz
- 3D Animation Generalist at Buzz
- Compositor at Buzz
- Web Programmer at Enter-Net
- Web Programmer at WebProductions
- Education
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- NAD Centre
- Connections
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- Industry
- Motion Pictures and Film
- Websites
Patrick Boucher’s Summary
Multidisciplinary, self-motivated coder with a focus on problem solving and work flow enhancement. Specializing in production support tools the goal will drive the solution and whatever technology is necessary to achieve the goal will be used. Constantly driven by the need to learn as well as tech others. Extensibility and usability are always front and center in any product developed.
Compositing and 3D Animation experience help round up the package to better tailor solutions to actual production needs.
Patrick Boucher’s Specialties:
Python and Perl programming, QT, C++, SQL / DB Admin, tool development, pipeline engineering, render farm management, systems administration, Windows, Linux, *nix
Patrick Boucher’s Experience
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Technical Director
Hookolo
(Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — Present (2 months)
Pipeline and IT consulting as well as software development for visual effects firms. Expertise includes Softimage|XSI, render farm management (Qube!, Rush and custom), process / work flow management, tool development (Python, QT), plugin development, systems administration (Windows, Linux, OSX), SQL, Apache, Django, etc.
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Editor in Chief
XSIBlog
(Animation industry)
February 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Owner, maintainer and editor in chief of a community / education web site dedicated to Softimage|XSI users around the world. http://www.xsi-blog.com
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Visual Effect Technical Supervisor
Vision Globale
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Softimage|XSI, render farm management, process / work flow management, tool development, plugin development, systems administration
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Resident Geek
Buzz
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
March 2002 — July 2007 (5 years 5 months)
Softimage|XSI, render farm management, process / work flow management, tool development, plugin development, systems administration
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3D Animation Generalist
Buzz
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
August 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 7 months)
3D Generalist in Maya, Softimage and XSI as well as Shake Compositing
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Compositor
Buzz
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
January 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Commercial Compositing in Discreet Products (Flint).
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Web Programmer
Enter-Net
(Internet industry)
September 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 7 months)
Web site design and programming. Perl / Html / Photoshop.
Web site / application deployment.
Unix experience. -
Web Programmer
WebProductions
(Internet industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Web design and development in the nascent world wide web
Patrick Boucher’s Education
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NAD Centre
3D Animation and Visual Effects for Film and Television 1998 — 1998
Additional Information
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Patrick Boucher’s Interests:
Technology, snowboarding, cycling, motorcycling
Patrick Boucher’s Groups:
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Visual Effects, Film and Games Professionals (www.vfx-recruit.com)
Patrick Boucher’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- consulting offers
- new ventures
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