818 . 681 . 4732
matthew@rehrer.com
48 Senior Ave . Berkeley . California . 94708-2212

Education

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Bachelor of Science College of Engineering Major: Civil Engineering with emphasis in Environment Additional Emphasis: Computer Science

Experience

Silicon Graphics (SGI), Mountain View, CA	June 2000 - Current
Applied Engineer / Technical Marketing, Telco Media Developed custom applications to aid customer integration Managed external software beta program Developed and taught classes for systems engineers, support personnel, and customers Managed trade show activities for the broadcast group including IBC, SIGGRAPH, Streaming Media, and NAB

University of California, Berkeley, CA	August 1999 - December 1999
Research Assistant, Paul Debevec's Graphics Research Group Studied light, rendering algorithms, high dynamic range photography, and color space representation Investigated physically correct lighting simulations for CGI Aided in design of a reflectance field recording device for real objects

Puffin Designs Inc., Sausalito, CA

May 1997 - March 1998

Systems Engineer, Engineering and Marketing Contributed production work for Commotion product demo reel Aided in design and execution of user interface elements for Commotion Gained fluent knowledge of digital effects industry solutions for film and video Traveled to trade shows, value added re-sellers, and user sites for the purpose of demos, sales, and support Managed hardware software setup at trade shows including SIGGRAPH, MacWorld, and DV Expo Oversaw heterogeneous network of Macintosh, Windows, and Silicon Graphics workstations and servers

Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA

September 1995 - May 1997

Programmer & QA Technician, Internet Strategies & Quality Assurance Created graphic design concept for external corporate website Aided in creating dummy interfaces of upcoming products in HTML Managed multiple servers (internal and external) running on Silicon Graphics, Sun, and Linux workstations. Gained proficiency in use of Allegro Common Lisp development environment for testing purposes Free-lance Computer Generated Imagery: Faithhealer Films, San Diego Symphony, Stryker Productions, Beyond the New Age Operating Systems: MacOS, Windows NT and 98, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, AIX, Linux, BSD Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Commotion, Premiere, Media100, 3D Studio MAX, ElectricImage, Radiance, BMRT, SolidWorks, Mechanical Desktop, AutoCAD, PageMaker, FileMaker, HTML, CGI, Shell Scripting, Constructor, Lisp, JAVA