Alumni Talk: From Fitchburg to Star Wars, Apple, and NVIDIA
9:30am - 1:45pm Presidents' HallMazzaferro Center, 291 Highland Ave.
About This Event
The Alumni Association presents a talk with Richard Kerris '83 entitled "From Fitchburg to Star Wars, Apple and NVIDIA - an Alumni's Journey."
Kerris is the general manager for media and entertainment, the Omniverse platform, and head of developer relations at NVIDIA. With a career spanning Alias|Wavefront, Apple and Lucasfilm, his experience combines driving marketing and product development with a focus on bringing new ideas to life.
At Alias|Wavefront, he was director of Maya technologies and led the teams that brought the groundbreaking 3D software to OEMs and new platforms. At Apple, he directed developer relations and managed the ProApps teams for Final Cut Pro, Logic and Aperture. At Lucasfilm, he served as CTO, managing research and development, IT and information services.
Join the conversation in person in Presidents' Hall Session I from 9:30 - 10:45 a.m., Session II from 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. or virtually https://vimeo.com/event/4140591/a281cfb51c
