Robert Pringle

• Established strong working relationships with clients through exceptional communication skills, fostering trust and collaboration.
• Wrote, reviewed and edited technical architectural documents in accordance with template requirements.
• Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
• Participate in governance for schema design, internal GraphQL usage
• Diagnose performance issues, recommend short and mind-term solutions including prototypical solutions

Hands-on leadership role developing new core platform initiative resulting in successful MVP for customer evaluation and CEO funding for expanded product development.

• Engage with product managers to define initial offerering
• Work with external stakeholders to align vision with business needs
• Work directly with platform architects to design core components, make recommendations to rectify platform deficiencies
• Hired new managers, development teams including remote contractors
• Coordinated the implementation of security best practices across all software development activities, minimizing vulnerabilities and protecting sensitive data from potential breaches.
• Developed strategic plans for technology investments that aligned with business goals, supporting long-term growth initiatives.
• Championed a culture of continuous improvement, fostering an environment where team members were empowered to suggest and implement positive changes.

• Led the migration of legacy systems to modern architectures, minimizing downtime during transitions.
• Established a culture of continuous improvement within the development team by promoting knowledge sharing and professional growth opportunities.
• Streamlined development processes by introducing agile methodologies, reducing project timelines and improving team collaboration.
• Enhanced system stability through rigorous testing, debugging, and addressing technical issues.

Hands-on technical leadership throughout complete software development lifecycle of a new scalable, multi-tenant SAAS product, and productized to AWS Marketplace (Loupe). Resulted in successful acquisition by Autodesk Inc.

• Collaborated with CEO and other internal stakeholders to provide technical vision from product inception to release
• Actively participated in product design process
• Multi-tenant architecture/design, technology review and selection (Django/Angular stack deployed to AWS) for all LoUPE components (Task Management, Asset Management, Review, Rendering)
• Prototype through implementation of key components (schema design, Asset Management, Transit Manager, OData, AWS service integration, end-user API, etc)
• Set and oversaw technical processes and procedures (CI/CD, customer deployment/onboarding, disaster recovery)
• Direct management of backend, frontend and DevOps teams (12 people), including recruiting, mentoring, review and retention
• Lead daily scrum sessions and provide solutions or facilitate problem solving amongst developers
• Worked with project managers to set priorities and assign resources against delivery milestones
• Managed code check-ins and deployments, database migrations as required
• Worked with internal business stakeholders and external vendors to provide metering strategy and implementation using a mixture of internally developed tools and low-level AWS solutions (AWS Athena, Tackle.io)
• Performance optimization and troubleshooting including application and costing issues
• Managed technical and product security reviews and mitigation (AWS, ISE)
• External vendor management or engagement as required (Onica, AWS, ISE, Tackle.io)
• Customer engagement (pre and post sales) for internal and external customers

• Managed team of six technical directors and two software developers for NextGen feature film production (Netflix)
• Prototyped studio asset management system (Django, DRF, NGINX)
• Provided solutions to transition from on-premise hardware to cloud (AWS/Alibaba) under extremely tight deadlines
• Developed prototypes and production code

• Managed software developers and technical directors at studio level
• Participated in executive strategy meetings
• Troubleshoot complex client delivery problems with respect to contractual obligations
• Worked with other stakeholders to set priorities for multiple simultaneous projects

Responsible for technical production pipeline. Generalized tooling and expanded production capabilities for service work.

• Managed Technical Directors (team of 12)
• Actively participated in resource planning
• Designed architecture of new caching system designed for high-throughput and reproducible behavior
• Architected proprietary lighting tools to make them render agnostic (Mentalray, Arnold and Renderman)
• Developed new asset publishing framework to track relevant asset changes per department based on Alembic

• Managed team of 16 technical directors and set direction for studio pipeline
• Responsible for transition of pipeline from per-show toolset to a single toolset resulting, resulting in consistent tooling for all shows.
• Provided technical supervision for Gnomeo and Juliet feature film (Disney)
• Worked directly with VFX, CG supervisors and production departments to ensure technology required for film was available and developed as required

• Developed core pipeline tools
• Maya Plugin development (C++)

• Provided custom tools and solutions to Animation department
• C++ Renderman procedural and shader development for near-camera plant animation

• Pipeline development and integration for Max and Maya
• Plugin development for both Houdini and 3D studio Max, including custom shaders, model and shader conversion
• Maintained and improved existing in-house asset management tools
• Dealt with day-to-day animation issues, and directly supervised several individuals dealing with off-site deliveries of animation for lighting
• Primary technical conduit for off-site production partners

• C++ Plugin development for Virtools 3D authoring package including writing a rigid body dynamics simulation suite for use building in-house 3D game content.

• Provided Prisms development support for first-tier customers in the Los Angeles area (Disney, DreamWorks)
• Developed new functionality and UI for Houdini 4.0 (Dopesheet, Custom UI builder, Texturing prototype, Interactive Preview Rendering, custom language extensions) primarily using C++