SLP 2023 Who's Who

Organization Team



Karen Ruggles
(SLP Founder & Chair)

Kaitlin Pollock (she/her)
(Co-Chair)

Ferby Cremer (she/her)
(Intro Course Lead)

Sean Wallitsch
(Mentor Lead)



Tom Szenher (he/him)
(Team Leads Lead)

Trina Roy
(Member)

Aliza Carpio (she/her)
(Autodesk Liason)







Team Leads



Parag Gupta (he/him)
Pipeline Technical Director

Tracy Priest (she/her)
Sr Pipeline Engineer



Douglas Tinoco (he/him)
Technical Director

Kirk Shimano
Production Engineer
(Lighting)

Ximena Jaramillo (she/her)
Software Engineer





Mentors



Sean Wallitsch (he/him)
Sr Specialist Solutions Architect

Tom Szenher (he/him)
Lead Technical Director,
Virtual Production

Trina Roy
Senior Software Engineer

Isabela Rovira
Technical Director

Stephen Garver (he/him)
Lead Software Engineer

Kathryn Rumohr (she/her)
Senior Manager - Cinematics TD

Grant Bowlds
Associate Software Engineer

Narendra Kumar Vadapalli
Principal Software Consultant

Jacob Melvin
Senior Software Engineer

Wan-Chun Alex Ma (they/them/he/him)
Research Scientist/Engineer

Patrick Coleman (he/him)
Global Technology
Departmental Supervisor

Doug Walker (he/him)
Technology Lead

S. L.
Assistant Editor

Haldean Brown (he/him)
Software Engineer

Tuba Yalcin (she/her)
Pro Workflow Expert
FX & Simulation

Scott Wilson
Workflow Engineer



J. G.
Art Director


Alyssa Lee
FX Technical Director



Adriana Damiani
Software Engineer

Rielle Dizon
Pipeline Coordinator/
Technical Project Manager





Learners

Cindy Xu (she/her)

Ninette Tan (she/her)

Benjamin Beilharz (he/him)

Julia Sousa (she/her)

Katherine Faye Nitti (she/they)

Brooke Galvin (she/they)

Megan Menetrey (she/her)

Jericho Dibb (he/him)

Vivian Liu (she/her)

John Haley (he/him)

Vincent Lee (he/him)

Wenyi Zhang (she/her)

Christopher Lew (he/him)

John Henges (he/him)

Audrey Wahking (she/her)

A. K.

Ailla Crossman (they/them)

Elina Eskelinen (she/her)

Samantha Aguilar Hernandez (she/her)

D. Pillis (he/him/they/them)