Bill Polson is the Interim CTO for R&D at Technicolor Creative Services. He's responsible for the software architecture and roadmap for three service lines: Advertising, Animation, and FEV (Film, VFX, Episodic). This encompasses everything from Ingest to Assets to Shots to Renders to Deliveries. Previously, for the past several years, he was the Global Head of Pipeline and Workflow for FEV. Prior to Technicolor, Bill was at Pixar Animation Studios for 19 years, in a variety of roles from Artist and SW Developer to Assistant CTO. Bill is known as a pipeline theorist and author of the web resource www.PipelinePatterns.com.