Jody Hilton

Unreal Staffing, Inc

As the Founder - Chief Gaming Officer at Unreal Staffing, Inc, I excel in understanding and addressing the unique challenges faced in securing top talent. My team ensures that complex requirements are fulfilled and enables productive collaborations, paving a direct route to innovation and success. Reach out to join our epic quest for success!

Founder - Chief Gaming Officer 

SureTech Staffing

Founder

E V E R T I D E

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Co-Founder & CEO

Strategic IT Staffing, LLC

I successfully built and sold this $20M IT staffing company, paving the way for future entrepreneurial endeavors.

I am providing executive leadership to articulate goals for sales management, systems development, corporate communication, compensation, employee relations, quality, training and organizational development.

I am also pioneering all of the B2B strategic digital and print marketing plans that include Branding, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Email and Content Marketing, leveraging internal and external resources, creating innovative campaign programs in all vertical IT markets, generating individualized sales email campaigns, developing Marketing automation and lead-generation tools, and setting up business intelligence tools for leadership decision-making across the organization through a customized performance business intelligence dashboard.

Key achievements include:
-Ranked 10 in Sacramento Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies 2007-2009 – and ranked 38 in 2011-2013. 
-Winner of the Most Innovative Communications Program from The American Staffing Association.

Chief Operating Officer

The overall business objective of Strategic IT Staffing LLC is understanding your business, your culture, and your needs. The first step in achieving your goals is understanding them, that is where we come in.

As the Founder and CEO, my role was to help the company realize its vision of creating unique and strategic staff augmentation solutions through mentorship, coaching, advising current leadership, and constructing a consultative Sales, Marketing and Recruitment process to seize unique revenue-generating value proposition opportunities.

Founder & CEO

Flash Network Solutions - MSP

At Flash Network Solutions, my responsibilities encompassed the delivery of cutting-edge technology solutions, premier services, and comprehensive IT support tailored specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises. Our expertise spanned technical network assistance, helpdesk support, computer maintenance, and strategic consulting, ensuring our clients could focus on their core business objectives.

We forged strong partnerships with a diverse array of businesses in the region, proactively addressing IT challenges to prevent costly downtime and facilitate seamless operations. Driven by our motto, "Your success is our success, and as you grow, we grow," we remained steadfast in our commitment to fostering the growth and prosperity of our valued clients.

I successfully built and sold this $10M IT staffing company, paving the way for future entrepreneurial endeavors.

I am providing executive leadership to articulate goals for sales management, systems development, corporate communication, compensation, employee relations, quality, training and organizational development.

I am also pioneering all of the B2B strategic digital and print marketing plans that include Branding, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Email and Content Marketing, leveraging internal and external resources, creating innovative campaign programs in all vertical IT markets, generating individualized sales email campaigns, developing Marketing automation and lead-generation tools, and setting up business intelligence tools for leadership decision-making across the organization through a customized performance business intelligence dashboard.

Key achievements include:
-Ranked 10 in Sacramento Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies 2007-2009 – and ranked 38 in 2011-2013. 
-Winner of the Most Innovative Communications Program from The American Staffing Association.
- Championed a Marketing automation system AKA “Marketing Machine” which sent around 250K emails a month nationally and generated around 3 to 10 job orders a week that were mostly from new clients.
- Developed and implemented a company-wide performance management and recognition program for Sales and Recruitment which resulted in a 20% improvement in developed and modeled consistent pay plans and incentive packages.

Scott Kirvan VFX - Freelance and Consulting

Real-time filmmaking R&D, focused on image fidelity, mocap, and integration with a VFX pipeline.

Virtual Production - Unreal Engine

● GMC Sierra (on-set VFX Supervisor - Sept 2021) - INVNT - Data-wrangling and HDRI capture - commercial spot.
● SWORDFISH (pre-production, on-set, post) - Warner Brothers - Bullet time explosion and helicopter sequences;
  - Worked closely with VFX Supervisor, generating data for and coordinating between multiple VFX & SFX teams;
  - Followed shots from pre-production through post, assisting with R&D tests, look-dev, and developing plugins and scripts to improve production efficiency;
  - Improvised and refactored the camera rig after an SFX car destroyed a portion of it, helping quickly get the production moving and keeping the shot in the film.
● JEEPERS CREEPERS (on-set) - American Zoetrope - Creature wing reveal;
  - Coordinated with the Director and DP, Supervised and data-wrangled the shot;
  - Helped the VFX team with look-dev and in overcoming some rendering challenges on the wing's translucency.
● FREAKYLINKS (on-set) - Fox Television / E=mc2 - CG Creature FX;
  - Simple supervision gig with a couple locked-off shots, data collection, and reference materials delivered to the VFX team - episodic television, so very fast turn-around;
● SOULKEEPER (on-set) - One-Tu-Three Productions - multiple sequences;
  - Mostly standard oversight, data collection, and reference;
  - Following a prop failure, worked with the 1st AD, and the 1st and 2nd unit cameras to improvise a dual, in-camera solution, turning a potential post-production nightmare into a relatively simple comp;
  - Worked with the VFX post team, recommended approaches, developed pipeline tools, and procedural shaders/filters to help with final image quality and on-time delivery.

On-Set VFX Supervisor & Technical Adviser

- Bidding & Script Breakdowns
- Treatments, Scriptwriting, & Editing
- Cross Functional Team Leadership
- Coordination and Tracking

● Actor, ”Blaine” - TILT - short film - Dirty Shirley Productions
● Add’l Writer, Actor ”Soldier 3”, Digital Artist - ONLY HOPE - short film - Max Ink Productions
● Lighting TD, Digital Artist - GENERA -  short film - Inertia Pictures
● FX Programmer, stereoscopic 2D look-dev - SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS 4-D - Paramount Parks / Nickelodeon
● Digital Artist - SPORTS CENTER - ident-bumper - Sports Center/RazorFish
● Digital Artist - WARRIORS OF MIGHT AND MAGIC - video game cinematic - 3DO

Creative and Production Roles

Visual Effects Society

VES Awards Committee Member

VES WA Section

Visual Effects Society, Washington Section Board of Managers

Apple TV+ / Mesquite Productions

On-Set Visual Effects Supervisor for season 4 of Apple TV+'s hit series, "For All Mankind."

On-Set Visual Effects Supervisor

Amazon / Media Res

Associate VFX Supervisor and Scale (as in "Size") Ambassador of Boots Riley's new Amazon series I'M A VIRGO (in post-production).  Pre-production, forced-perspective shot planning, on-set VFX supervision, and Unreal Engine tech-viz.

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor & Scale Ambassador

Slaughter County Brewing Company, LLC

Managing Director

Founder ● Head Brewer

Nike

Unreal Engine Editor Tools, Cloud (Pixel) Streaming, and Unreal Build Automation.  Python & Blueprint dev in UE4, AWS, Github, Jira, Jenkins.

3D Pipeline Engineer - Immersive Tech

Caustic Graphics, Inc.

- Served as liaison to A-list film and entertainment studios, architectural firms, and fortune 500 hardware and software vendors;
- Provided technical guidance and validation of integration; Brazil API & Caustic raytracing hardware;
- SME in meetings with top-level studios and directors

AcquiHire • General Manager Brazil r/s™ • M&E Subject Matter Expert

SplutterFish, LLC

- Co-authored the globally recognized Brazil Rendering System; 
- Developed business relationships and provided consultation to A-list studios, architecture & design firms, hardware and software producers, and cloud rendering providers; 
- Provided personal on-site tech support and production assistance ("smokejumping") for key customers including: Industrial Light & Magic (Skywalker Ranch, Kerner Optical, & the Presidio), The Orphanage, Matte World Digital, Blur Studio, Max Ink Cafe, Inertia Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment, Frantic Films, Digital Domain, Microsoft Games, Autodesk.

Founder • CEO • Developer

Blur Studio, Inc.

• Took on various technical and artistic responsibilities in support of production requirements.
• Occasionally provided on-set supervision for the facility and contributed substantially to the studio’s stereoscopic and non-photoreal pipelines.
• Contributed technically and creatively during staff meetings and assisted with artist education, especially in communicating old-school techniques and math-centric methods and concepts; 
• Represented the studio in meetings, contract negotiations, and software licensing agreements with Autodesk, Inc., licensing several plug-in products; ILM’s OpenEXR, RayFX (an integrated ray tracer that worked inside ADSK’s scanline renderer), and others. 

● FX Programmer, Digital Artist - SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER, AND UNCUT - feature film - Comedy Partners
● Lighting TD, FX Programmer - FOR THE CAUSE - feature film - Grand Designs
● FX Programmer, Look-dev TD - 1001 NIGHTS - short film - Hyperion / BS24 Japan
● Add’l VFX Supervisor (on-set) - SOULKEEPER - feature film - One-Tu-Three Productions
● FX Programmer - THE REAL ADVENTURES OF JONNY QUEST - animated TV series - Hanna-Barbera
● FX Programmer - DEEP RISING - feature film - Walt Disney Pictures
● FX Programmer - THE VISITOR - TV series - Centropolis
● FX Programmer - METEOR ATTACK - stereoscopic ride film - Tobu Zoo, Tokyo
● FX Programmer, Stereoscopic pipeline TD - GUINNESS: RIDE THE RECORDS - Stereoscopic IMAX ride film - Guinness World Records
● FX Programmer - CARNEVIL - video game cinematic - Midway Games

Computer Graphics Specialist • Software Technical Director •  FX Programmer

Highly qualified amalgam of filmmaker, VFX professional, and engineer with an extensive production background and over 20 years in creative, leadership, client-side, supervisory, and vendor-side in-studio roles. Well-versed in a range of compositing, 3D animation, and simulation tools, and a natural collaborator skilled in the use of film and digital methodologies for Virtual Production, VFX, SFX, and Animation.

Current area of focus: Unreal Engine, Virtual Production, Real-time Tools, Pipelines & Workflows

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