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Technical director

Typically, a TD is a mix of an artist and a programmer, responsible for the more technical aspects of film production, such as programming shaders, developing character rigs and animation setups, performing complex simulation tasks and setting up the pipeline how the data is passed from one stage in the film production to the next.


Jonathan Aspas

With the new technical staff of R.E. MouscronMiroslav Đukić (coach) and Amedeo Carboni (technical director) – playing a major part in his signing, Aspas moved to the Belgian League for the 2009–10 campaign.

Robert Procureur

He works alongside of his coaching job with Muang Thong United as Technical Director of Yadanabon FC and reach the same performance in Myanmar (champion 2009, 2010 and winner of the AFC president cup) and president of the Académie Jean-Marc Guillou Thailand.

Teatro Tomasino

The Executive Board is made up of the following with their respective duties and obligations as per stated on the guild's constitution: Artistic Director, Technical Director, Business Director, Executive Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Auditor, Marketing and Public Relations Officer, Asst. Marketing and Public Relations Officer, Alumni and Special Events Coordinator.


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Arthur Haddy

His work as Technical Director of the Decca Record Company Ltd. caused him to be nicknamed "the father of hi-fi".

Bas Dost

At one point he was just about to move to Finland, to RoPS as Emmen's former technical director Tom Saintfiet was coaching there.

Bellanger-Denhaut 22

The Bellanger-Denhaut 22 (sometimes known by the military designation Bellanger-Denhaut HB.3) was a twin-engined bomber/reconnaissance flying boat designed by François Denhaut the technical director for seaplanes for the car manufacturer Bellanger.

Bill Westenhofer

In 1994, he joined Rhythm & Hues as a technical director, and Westenhofer’s lighting and effects animation work was featured in Batman Forever and numerous commercials.

Bob de Klerk

De Klerk joined Toronto FC on January 6, 2011 as First Assistant Coach along with former Ajax colleague Aron Winter who became Head Coach/Technical Director.

Bryan Norcross

Norcross started in television as an engineer at WFSU-TV in Tallahassee, Florida while in college, moving to WXIA-TV (then WQXI-TV) in Atlanta as a maintenance engineer/technical director after graduation in 1972.

Capital City F.C.

Head coach Shaun Anthony Harris led Capital City into 2011-12 season as head coach and technical director.

Don O'Riordan

The club appointed Wang Baoshan as the new Head Coach on 4 May and O'Riordan returned to his usual role of Technical Director/ Coach.

Dylan Keefe

Although Dylan is still a part of the rock trio today, for a limited time he was the Technical Director for the weekly public radio program On the Media, based in New York City, and the Technical Director on another NYC-based public radio program The Takeaway.

EGADE Business School

Since its creation, the school requires every applicant to achieve a minimum pass mark at its own academic aptitude test for postgraduate studies (Prueba de Admisión a Estudios de Posgrado, PAEP); an instrument designed and maintained by academics of the Institute (with some guidance provided by the technical director of The College Board office in Puerto Rico).

Émile Allais

After a spell in North and South America (Squaw Valley, California and Portillo, Chile) Allais held the post of technical director at Courchevel from 1954 to 1964, where he introduced many ideas from the U.S. regarding slope preparation and piste security.

Eugene E. Covert

In the 1970s he was the chief scientist of the US Air Force and technical director of the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development.

Europa XS

The Europa touring wing uses a unique Dykins 12% thickness/chord ratio airfoil designed by Donald H. Dykins, who had been deputy Chief Aerodynamicist at Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and later technical director of British Aerospace and chief aerodynamicist on the European Airbus.

Gertrude Blanch

For a while she worked as a substitute teacher at Hunter College; then, in 1938, she began work on the Mathematical Tables Project of the WPA, for which she was technical director.

Graeme Dell

In the early 1990s Dell worked as a regional coach for The FA as part of their Centres of Excellence Programme where he was involved in the player review and selection process for each years intake of The FA National School at Lilleshall, eventually becoming part of Technical Director Keith Blunt's Final assessment staff.

Gustav Brunner

With March Engineering folding, he moved to Minardi for 1993, designing their successful M193 chassis, before another switch, to Ferrari's Research & Development department, eventually returning to Minardi as chief designer in 1997 to help new technical director, Gabriele Tredozi, and became the technical director in 1999.

Hans Peter Anvin

Previous employers include Transmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; and rPath.

Hardy Oil and Gas

Due to the merger changes were made to the executive board - Alan Gaynor was CEO; Peter Hill became technical director and Steve Holliday was international director.

Ian Juryeff

In April 2012, he was appointed first-team trainer and technical director at minor French club, US Gonnehem from the Pas-de-Calais department.

Jerry Saltzer

Additionally, while technical director of Project Athena, he was supportive of the development of the X Window System, an open windowing system, still used and developed to this day on Linux and UNIX.

Jim Rilatt

Rilatt continued to coach youth soccer with Lake Oswego Soccer Club before being hired in 2009 as Director of Coaching for youth club EastSide United FC where Portland Timbers General Manager Gavin Wilkinson serves as Technical Director.

Jim Warman

All the AEI staff were sacked, including those on the TXE project and it was then that Jim joined GTE International, the American company, as European technical director based in Milan, along with some members of his team from AEI.

Joachim Sauer

For a brief time during and after the German reunification (1990–1991) he was the Deputy Technical Director (Catalysis and Sorption) for BIOSYM Technologies, San Diego/USA (now Accelrys).

John Alexander Fladgate

Today, the only direct kinship with Fladgate at Taylor, Fladgate, & Yeatman is David Fonseca Guimaraens, Winemaker and Technical Director, the son of Bruce Duncan Guimaraens and Fladgate's great-great-great nephew.

Joseph Delmont

During 1910 he returned to Vienna where among other things he worked for the Österreichisch-Ungarische Kinoindustrie (later Wiener-Kunstfilm) as a cameraman, and was thus cameraman, and also technical director and director of scenery, on the oldest Austrian drama film to survive entire: Der Müller und sein Kind of 1911.

KAIT

Rodger Bumpass - announcer, film processor, cameraman, audio technician, and technical director (best known for providing the voice of Squidward Tentacles on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants)

Keith Griffiths

Keith Griffith (born 1947), current technical director of the US Virgin Islands soccer team

Ken Furphy

During the 2000/01 season he was appointed as a "Technical Director" of Exeter City, to help then manager Noel Blake as the club battled against relegation, however this tenure was short lived and he left the club after just 6 days in the job.

Michael I. Yarymovych

In 1962 he joined NASA Headquarters as Assistant Director of Systems Engineering on the Apollo project and later moved to the Air Force as Technical Director of the Air Force Manned Orbital Laboratory, and Deputy for Requirements to the Assistant Secretary for Research and Development.

Mike Coughlan

On 3 May 2011 it was announced that Coughlan was hired by the Williams F1 team as the chief engineer, in part replacing the then technical director Sam Michael and chief aerodynamicist Jon Tomlinson.

Barnard parted company with Arrows after falling out with Tom Walkinshaw during the 1998 season, but Coughlan stayed on, taking the role of Technical Director in the following year.

Mir Zafar Ali

Ali has worked on visual effects and graphics in many Hollywood movies, including The Day After Tomorrow, X-Men (in which he was primarily in charge of the character Banshee as effects technical director), Stealth, Monster House, The Golden Compass, The Incredible Hulk, The Mummy and Aliens in the Attic.

Otto Liebermann

His father Alois came originally from Pilsen (Czech Republic and had started out working in the Oderfurter Mineraloelwerke at Ostrau (near Halle (Saale), Germany); he subsequently went to Galicia to work as a manager in the oil fields there and eventually became Technical Director of Nafta A.G. in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine).

Paddy Kenny

In August 2012 Kenny's former club Q.P.R. wrote a formal letter of complaint to Leeds United over abusive texts allegedly sent by Kenny to their technical director Mike Rigg and chairman Tony Fernandes.

Pat Symonds

Shortly afterwards, the team parted company with existing technical director Nick Wirth.

Porsche Panamericana

It was designed by Dutchman Harm Lagaay (designer) and Ulrich Bez (technical director) to renew the design of the 911.

Project ARTEMIS

Robert A. Frosch, in his capacity as Technical Director of Hudson Laboratories (Columbia University), was Technical Director of the project.

Putter

Their use in professional tournaments is hotly contested; Jim Furyk and others on the pro tours including Langer and Vijay Singh have used belly putters at some point with a marked improvement of their short game, while players like Tiger Woods and officials like former USGA technical director Frank Thomas have condemned it as conferring an unfair advantage on users.

Renault CH-Type engine

In 1972, after an agreement was reached with Elf, François Castaing, technical director of Renault Gordini, was given the go-ahead to build a 2-litre engine that could be used in a "sports" model and then in Formula 2.

Simtek S951

The car was designed by Simtek owner and technical director Nick Wirth, along with the chief designer of Simtek Research, Paul Crooks.

Stephen deRoux

On 12 January 2011, Montreal Impact technical director Nick De Santis confirmed on CKAC that deRoux would not be back with the Impact for the 2011 season.

Steven Tan

In 6 January 2011 He was appointed as the headcoach of Tampines Rovers FC for the 2011 S-League season replacing Vorawan Chitavanich who moved up to become the Technical Director for Tampines Rovers FC.

The Man Who Sold the Moon

Fred Brooks's The Mythical Man Month quotes the exchange between Harriman and his chief engineer as an example of a "technical director as boss and producer as right-hand man" relationship.

Trustworthy Software Initiative

It is managed by a Technical Director, Ian Bryant, with Stakeholder interests being represented by a President, Sir Edmund Burton, and a team of Vice Presidents responsible for particular communities of interest.

Una Hale

In 1960, she married Martin Carr, at that time Technical Director of the Royal Ballet - subsequently a theatre consultant - and retired from the stage in 1965 after the births of her sons, the composer Paul Carr and the conductor and chorus master Gavin Carr.

Vanitha Rangaraju

Rangaraju was part of the team that won a 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for movie Shrek, for which she was credited as lighting technical director.

Velić

Jasminko Velić (21st century), current technical director of Panathinaikos FC

Vera Pauw

In September 1998 Pauw was appointed coach and technical director of the Scotland women's national football team, while husband Bert van Lingen was working as assistant manager of Rangers in Glasgow.