Nicholas Hurm

Award-winning animation and visual effects studio known for “The Lego Movie” and “The Matrix”

Collaborated with stakeholders across multiple craft groups to assess needs and implement a strategy as Animal Logic and Netflix Animation Studios unified. Managed the user story backlog, defined technical goals, and oversaw quarterly planning. Led the modernization and release of an interval creative review toolset (PyQt, RV) improving session control and stability, while additionally being a core developer of the project. Provided technical support during high-stakes reviews, troubleshooting tools like RV, Clearview, and Syncsketch.

Award-winning visual effects studio that worked on “Game of Thrones” and “The Mandalorian”

Manage and lead the Technical Assistant and Desktop Support teams. Optimize and administration of the High Performance computing cluster (HPC) and queuing software (Tractor) and ensuing databases (PostgreSQL) . Report data metrics and continually ensure data accuracy, integrity and security. Liaise with production managers to set and maintain render priorities that support competing show needs and project future production requirements. Manage Data IO to and from external stakeholders. Oversee and collaborate with stakeholders on the restoration of archived data. Develop web, command-line, and GUI application tools to facilitate efficiency, analytics reporting, and data transfer. Manage the Department coding toolbox and CI/CD workflow. Troubleshoot service issues. Mentor team members.

Award-winning feature animation and commercial VFX studio, known for “The Book of Life”

Administered and optimized the render farm and render queuing software on 800+ servers and databases. Reported data and storage metrics. Worked with production managers to set and maintain render priorities that support competing show needs and project future production requirements. Supported existing pipeline technologies based on production needs. Developed tools (web, command-line, and GUI application) to facilitate render farm efficiency, reporting, and data cleaning. Mentor the render wrangling team.

Commercial HVAC call center and on-site technicians servicing mostly grocery stores.

Led IT technical support for workstations, servers, network infrastructure and phone systems of 100+ user, 24/7 call-center environment using Windows Server and VM management through HyperV and user management and permissions through Active Directory. Gained basic knowledge of TCP networking. Managed the internal Helpdesk Ticketing system. Troubleshoot COM port, modem dialing, and networking (client and server-side) issues. Helped Integrate Linux in a Windows-only facility