Cédric de Saint Léger is an adaptive engineer with a background in visual effects and web development. He has worked for major VFX studios like Framestore and animation studios like Les Armateurs. He is looking for new opportunities to learn, grow, and take on challenges. Some of his experiences include designing workflow and tools to help productions at Framestore and Les Armateurs. He has skills in programming, software, and operating systems.

1. 26 yo
Cédric de Saint Léger +33 6 18 82 85 00
11 rue du Maréchal Joffre c.desaintleger@gmail.com
78000 Versailles FRANCE
{ Adaptive Engineer
with strong VFX experience }
> Profile and Objectives Enthusiastic engineer with strong background in VFX and web development, I
enjoy working in a creative team and lead innovation to take up new challenges.
Having experiences from great VFX companies to more entrepreneur projects
to share, I am looking forward to learn and grow better.
> Last Work Experiences
> Alternative Channel WebTV entrepreneur project focused on sustainable development
10 months - present Help the project ramping up by designing video editing and broadcasting
Paris - 2010 workflow, designing and managing client’s webTV sites, finding innovative ways
to generate audience on the Internet and concluding significant partnerships
with big portals such as MSN, Orange or Dailymotion.
> Framestore Largest VFX house in Europe with some prestigious references
2,5 years Systems – Production liaison engineer: in charge of meeting with production to
London – 2006 discuss their technical resources allocations (storage, procs, licenses).
London – 2008/2010
Designed and developed an intranet tool that eventually evolved into a daily
reference for both producers and engineers: it could ingest producers crew
sheets, evaluate their resources needs and anticipate crunch time.
Pipeline Auditor: Audited the Framestore Animation production pipeline and
workflow from top to bottom and made a comprehensive report on what has
been put in place for Framestore’s first animation feature film the Tale of
Despereaux. Audited the VFX production pipeline the same way.
Helped Pipeline, Systems and Data Ops to consider what should be improved.
> Les Armateurs / Renowned French animation production studio (Kirikou, Belleville Rendez-Vous…)
McGuff Ligne Worked on “Why I did (not) eat my father”, a 25 million euros 3D animation
6 months internship feature film scheduled for release in 2011. Designed and developed asset
Paris - 2007 management tools to smooth the pre-production workflow across les
Armateurs and MacGuff Ligne. Helped production management, crew building
and scheduling.
> Education
> Gobelins, Ecole de
l’Image Followed an additional master’s degree course in digital projects management,
in partnership with ESCP. Learned production management, marketing, project
Master’s degree budgeting and funding… applied to creative industries
Paris – 2006/2007
> Ecole Centrale de
Nantes Leading French school of general engineering (Grande Ecole), prestigious
equivalent to a 5 years university level. Specialized in Project Management and
Engineer’s degree Computer Science.
Nantes – 2003/2006
> Skills
PHP HTML Web APIs
> Programming
JS - Jquery SQL Shell
> Software MS Office FileMaker MS Project
> OS Mac OS Linux Windows
> Language French English Spanish
> About me I design and develop a new kind of social networking site as a personal project.
I also like drawing, animation, world-music, social trends on the Internet. My
friends also dub me guacamole-making champion...