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Jeff Wike

Animation CTO
DreamWorks

Jeff Wike is the CTO for Film and TV Production for DreamWorks Animation, where he is responsible the strategic vision, creation, operations and maintenance of the studio’s 3D computer-generated animated production platform. In his role, Jeff is responsible for all aspects of technology needs for film and TV production, including software development, technical operations and the provisioning of technology resources required for digital content production at the California studio.

Jeff has taken a leading role in a number of significant technology initiatives in his tenure with DreamWorks Animation. He was instrumental the conversion of the studio from 2D to 3D; authoring of films in stereo; the adoption of Linux; creation of pre-visualization capability; and development and deployment of the studio’s advanced artist tools rearchitected to take advantage of multi-processor hardware architectures and cloud computing as well as big data analytics for infrastructure efficiency. Jeff has been with DreamWorks Animation for 20 years.

Prior to joining DreamWorks Animation, Jeff developed software for the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as well as led R&D projects for TRW in the area of 2D and 3D image processing, robotics and artificial intelligence. As a Captain in the U.S. Army, Wike served as a paratrooper, an intelligence officer and developed software for intelligence and electronic warfare battlefield automated systems.

Jeff has a B.S. in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is on the executive board and CFO of the International Animated Film Society, a member of the Visual Effects Society and a member of Industry Council for the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project.

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