Work Experience
NVIDIA Corporation (May. 2022 - present)
- Senior Software Engineer
- Developed material and shading features for Omniverse platform
Industrial Light & Magic (Dec. 2012 - Apr. 2022)
- R&D Engineer
- Designed texture and lookdev workflows; developed application plugins
- The Mandalorian Season 3 (2023)
- Hawkeye (2021)
- Captain Marvel (2019)
- Downsizing (2017)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- Jurassic World (2015)
Digital Domain (Jan. 2008 - Nov. 2012)
- Technical Director / R&D Engineer
- Developed rendering pipelines, shaders, and application plugins
- Performed look development
- Jack The Giant Slayer (2013)
- TRON: Legacy (2010)
- 2012 (2009) [uncredited]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Sony Pictures Imageworks (Oct. 2004 - Jan. 2008)
- Senior Color & Lighting Technical Director
- Developed rendering pipelines, shaders, and application plugins
- Performed look development, shot lighting, and compositing
- I Am Legend (2007)
- Monster House (2006)
ESC Entertainment (Apr. 2002 - Sep. 2004)
- Color & Lighting Technical Director
- Developed shaders
- Performed look development
- Catwoman (2004)
- Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- Matrix Reloaded (2003)
OptGraph, Inc. (Jul. 2000 - Apr. 2002)
- Software Engineer
- Developed stand-alone commercial renderer (project canceled)
SEGA Enterprises (Apr. 1999 - Jun. 2000)
- Technical Artist
- Developed shaders and application plugins
"Hakuchi" Project (Jun. 1998 - Dec. 1998)
- Part-time Technical Director
- Developed shaders
- Hakuchi: The Innocent (1999)
Education
- Master of Image Science and Technology
- Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Atsugi, Japan (Apr. 1997 - Mar. 1999)
- Bachelor of Engineering in Image Information Engineering
- Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Atsugi, Japan (Apr. 1993 - Mar. 1997)
Skills
- Languages & Frameworks
- C/C++, Python, GLSL, MDL, Boost, Qt
- Maya, Mari, Nuke, Katana, mental ray, RenderMan, Arnold, Omniverse, MaterialX
- DCC Software
- Maya, Mari, Nuke, Katana, mental ray, RenderMan, Arnold, Omniverse
Publications
- Duiker, H., Perez, O., Suzuki, M., Trevino, R. "Earthquake! Building a Pipeline to Destroy Los Angeles in 2012," SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Sketch, Yokohama, Japan, 2009.
- Burshukov, G., Sabourin, K., Suzuki, M., Larsen, O., Mihashi, T., Faiman, K., Schinderman, S., James, O., Jack, J. "Making of the Superpunch," SIGGRAPH 2004 Sketch, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.