Jeff H. Platt
Senior Software Design Engineer
Jeff Platt has
twenty years of development experience with embedded real-time systems.
He has extensive experience building analog and digital control systems for
special visual effects applications.
He specializes in designing software operating systems for real-time controllers.
Jeff has written
multiple complete motion control software packages.
Starting
in special visual effects at Boss Film Studios in 1987, he designed software
for most of their optical printers,
along with multiple camera / camera head controllers, and visual effects tools.
He was head of the electronics department until 1997.
At Warner Brothers
(Warner Digital Studios), he oversaw the integration of the analog(film) and
digital(effects) operations at the studio, and developed among other things
a 6 axis inertial navigation system.
In 2001 - 2003,
Jeff wrote the software sound engine for the Alesis Andromeda
synthesizer, which is still gathering great reviews all over the world.
Jeff has been
working with Alvah Miller for the last few years, designing software for custom
embedded systems.
PATENT (Comet's Tail)
Moving
lights simulator
U.S. patent #6,013,987 (awarded 1/11/2000)
FILM CREDITS* AND EXPERIENCE
I, Robot*, Batman and
Robin*, Mars Attacks*, Eraser, Species*, Outbreak*, True Lies*, Drop Zone*, Multiplicity*, The Specialist, The Scout*, Last Action Hero*, Cliffhanger*, Alien 3*, Batman Returns*, Ghost, Die Hard, Hunt
For Red October, Solar Crisis*,
Big Top Pee Wee*, Earth
Star Voyager*, Vibes*, Leonard VI*, Date with an Angel