Mark Manca
Passionate about enhancing storytelling possibilities and operations for artists via strategic evolution of technology.
- Role
- Director of Product Management at Pixar Animation Studios
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mark Manca
Animation can give us a surprising connection to what it is to be human. What it is to have passion. What it is to love. What it is to grow beyond yourself. My purpose is to help artists tell their stories by strategizing with and motivating diverse teams to evolve technology to create better (and more efficient) storytelling opportunities for artists.I value a \"yes, if\" approach to teamwork rather than a \"no, because\" mentality. Challenging people to think about \"yes, if\" to solve a problem encourages the creative solutions required for technology development. A \"no, because\" response to problem solving stifles innovation.The most important thing I do is to motivate teams by helping them see the \"why\" of strategy and requirements - to help them come to \"yes, if\" and to then remove barriers to making a project successful.I bring a right and left brain aesthetic to my work. I bring my entrepreneurial spirit, leadership ability, innovation, strategic thinking, agility, motivation, and technology skills to the table every day.
Experience
Director of Product Management
Oct 2022 — Present · Emeryville, CA, US
Working to transform RenderMan\'s strategy to allow it to continue to be the renderer Pixar and the wider Media and Entertainment industry needs to deliver increasingly complex projects on tighter delivery timelines and budgets. The rendering marketplace is evolving rapidly, with disruptive technology causing paradigm shifts in how rendering is done.I am working on RenderMan\'s strategy, and together with the Engineering team, the best way to evolve the historic renderer to a place where it continues to lead the category for the next 10 years by bringing interactivity and performance to artists. All the while maintaining its DNA of giving artists and TDs ultimate freedom to create images to support the stories being told.
Education
University of Washington
BS, Computer Engineering
Skills
- C++
- Content Management
- Microsoft Office
- Android
- Python
- Creative Problem Solving
- Com
- Mel
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Attention to Detail
- Blackberry
- Wikis
- Javascript
- Business Strategy
- Katana
- Actionscript
- Mysql
- Premiere
- Product Strategy
- Objective-C
- Renderman
- Rest
- Ios
- Html
- Flex
- Nuke
- Opengl
- Drupal
- Linux
- Java
- Photoshop
- Product Management
- Maya
- Css
- Windows
- Team Motivator
- Digital Asset Management
- Mac
- Php
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