Experience

• Manager / Team Leader - CGI & Animation at JCB India Ltd (www.jcb.com)

  Pune, India

  May 2014 - Present

  • Team Leader for CGI & Animation Dept., Part of Leadership team of JCB Design Center
  
  • Delivering Brochure Images, Launch Videos and other CGI content for India & Worldwide JCB Machinery.
  
  • Initiation of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) & User Interface(UI) Design activities
  
  • Projects Management & Monitoring - Estimating Man-Hrs for jobs, Scheduling projects and maintaining delivery date commitments
  
  • Taking various sized project – stills, animation, editing, etc from planning to execution & delivery.
  
  • 3D Artists Mentoring & Appraisals
  
  • Managing received outsourced jobs from UK
  
  • Quality Monitoring
  
  • Working hands-on on critical tasks using Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, FCP, Logic Pro
  
  • Departmental Budgeting, Forecasting & Procurement of Resources

• CG Production Manager at Happy Finish India Pvt. Ltd. (www.happyfinish.com)

  Mumbai, India

  March 2013 - May 2014

  • Estimating Man-Hrs for jobs
  
  • Scheduling projects and maintaining delivery date commitments to clients.
  
  • Projects Management & Monitoring - Taking various sized project – still & animation from planning to execution & delivery.
  
  • Client’s Relations Management - Communicating with clients on project plan and deliverables.
  
  • Clients & Artists Assesment
  
  • Managing received outsourced jobs
  
  • Assisting Marketing & Sales Team with required project approaches and ballparks
  
  • Technology Monitoring

• Project Manager at 3D Upside Down Ltd. (www.3d-upside-down.com)

  Mumbai, India

  November 2008 - March 2013

  • Providing leadership for the team including mentoring for 3D artists
  
  • Creating project schedules and delivering within those schedules.
  
  • Supervising various depts. Including Modeling, Texturing, Rigging & Animation in the pipeline for projects in films, TV spots, web-series, corporate presentations.
  
  • Troubleshooting, QC'ing and supporting members of the team and their work.
  
  • Managing Quality Personnel & Department Heads.
  
  • Communicating with clients on project plan and deliverables
  
  • Estimating man hours for tasks, developing algorithms for estimating specific work hours for tasks. • • Assigning tasks and ensuring all relevant reference is available.
  
  • Preparing guides and video tutorials for artists to learn tools & techniques.
  
  • Interfacing with the Clients, and giving feedback to the team.
  
  • Providing the standards of ensuring the delivery of a tasks that will match specifications.
  
  • Overseeing, managing and providing leadership and encouragement to the team.
  
  • Working Hands-On on critical tasks

• Senior 3D Instructor - Consultant at Toonskool India Pvt. Ltd. (http://www.toonskool.net/)

  Mumbai, India

  November 2008 - July 2009

  • Responsible for lecturing & mentoring students in 3D, Specifically in Animation.
  
  • Conducting exercises in Animacting, Animation principles and related foundation subjects in Animation.
  
  • Creating course content.

• Visualization Designer at General Motors India Design Studio (www.gm.com)

  Bangalore, India

  July 2007 - October 2008

  • Solely responsible for Design Visualization (photo-realistic 3d animation & rendering in Maya & realtime renderer RTT Deltagen) activities at GM India Design Studio; reporting primarily to a Global Manager at U.S. & coordinating with global counterparts.
  
  • Trained at GM Daewoo (South Korea) in March 2008.
  
  • Presenter for high level real-time 3D Digital Reviews to GM Leadership.
  
  • Worked on several global programs as well as the first local production program & first advanced design program at the GM India Design Studio.
  
  • Worked with high-end visualization software RTT Deltagen (aka 3DXCite) and projection system - BARCO.

• Freelance 3D Artist at Various Companies

  Mumbai, India

  June 2006 - July 2007

  • Character Animator, Facial Expressions Modeler – Internet broadcast episode series done for an american project through 3D Upside Down studio, Mumbai. (viewable at https://www.youtube.com/user/SonnyFica)
  
  • Character Animator – Gym Exercises for instructional video done for cgCharacter Studio, Australia (viewable at www.hyperstrike.com)
  
  • Modeler – Medical project (liver, elbow, etc.)
  
  • Modeler – Vehicles & weapons for a game project
  
  • Character Animator – Martial Arts for a game project