Director | Producer | VFX | Creative Operations | Project Management | AI & Technology
Studio Visual Effects · 2010–Present
A career built inside the connective tissue of ambitious productions—capturing what happened on set, protecting the data that describes it, and coordinating the teams that carry every shot to final delivery.
The throughline
The role has changed—from post-production assistant, to on-set data lead, to coordinator, to production manager—but the job has always been the same: make complex creative work move clearly.
Career arc
Rango, Burn Notice, and The Lone Ranger established the language of post, schedules, handoffs, and studio-scale VFX production.
From Terminator Genisys through Marvel and The Mandalorian, on-set work connected cameras, lenses, lighting, textures, and reference photography to downstream digital teams.
The Mandalorian, The Christmas Chronicles 2, The Book of Boba Fett, and Percy Jackson expanded that experience into shot tracking, editorial turnovers, vendors, versions, and approvals.
Beginning with the Senior VFX Coordinator role and continuing as VFX Production Manager, the work spans team leadership, cross-studio strategy, distributed vendors, high-volume asset pipelines, and final delivery.
Production credits
Presented in the chronology of Derrek’s professional work history, with overlapping productions preserved.
The Walt Disney Studios · 2022–Present
VFX Production Manager · Senior VFX Coordinator
Leading cross-studio coordination for a large-scale episodic VFX pipeline, from on-set capture and editorial turnovers through multi-vendor delivery and final streaming distribution.
Lucasfilm · 2020–2021
VFX Coordinator · Data Wrangler
Managed shot tracking, vendor communication, versions, approvals, and on-set media workflows across a fast-moving episodic production.
Netflix · 2019–2020
VFX Coordinator · Data Wrangler
Helped carry a high-volume feature VFX workflow through the industry’s rapid shift to fully remote production, maintaining continuity across turnovers, versions, vendors, and delivery milestones.
Lucasfilm · 2018–2019
VFX Coordinator · Data Wrangler
Supported shot tracking, vendor turnovers, editorial communication, delivery schedules, and structured on-set data capture for a landmark episodic production.
Marvel Studios · 2017–2018
Senior Data Wrangler
Led on-set capture and metadata workflows that protected the integrity, traceability, and downstream usefulness of high-resolution assets entering Marvel’s editorial and VFX pipelines.
Marvel Studios · 2018
Senior Data Wrangler
Managed on-set media, camera, lens, lighting, texture, and reference data for reliable handoff into studio post-production and visual effects.
Marvel Studios · 2017–2018
Senior Data Wrangler
Helped establish scalable on-set data-capture standards for one of Marvel’s largest visual-effects productions.
Marvel Studios · 2016
Data Wrangler · Reshoots
Managed secure ingest, validation, metadata capture, and structured handoff of on-set elements during reshoots.
Warner Bros. · 2016
Lead Mocap Witness Camera Operator · Reshoots
Led witness-camera capture during motion-capture reshoots, supporting accurate performance reference for downstream VFX work.
20th Century Fox · 2016
Data Wrangler
Managed on-set media validation, metadata, and reference capture for a VFX-heavy studio production.
Lionsgate · 2016
Data Wrangler
Connected physical production to post through disciplined on-set capture, organization, and delivery-ready metadata.
20th Century Fox · Uncharted Territory · 2015–2016
Lead Data Wrangler · Match-Mover / Tracker
Led the on-set data team, captured environments and textures, then translated that real-world material into camera solves and scene reconstruction for downstream CG teams.
Warner Bros. · 2014–2015
Data Wrangler
Supported large-scale VFX production with reliable media, camera, and reference-data workflows on set.
Lionsgate · 2015
Data Wrangler · Elements
Captured and organized production elements for integration into the film’s visual-effects workflow.
Paramount Pictures · 2014
Assistant Data Wrangler
Supported on-set VFX data and reference acquisition across production in New Orleans and San Francisco.
The Walt Disney Studios · 2012–2013
VFX Production Assistant
An early studio VFX role supporting the production team across New Mexico and Los Angeles, and a bridge from post-production into increasingly complex visual-effects work.
Fox Television · 2011
Post-production Assistant
Built a foundation in the pace, precision, and coordination required to move episodic material through post-production.
Paramount Pictures · 2010–2011
Post-production Assistant
The first major feature credit in a career built around the systems, teams, and details that carry ambitious images from production through final delivery.
Recognition
Children’s & Family Emmy Award Winner
Derrek received an Emmy as part of the recognized visual-effects team, credited as Visual Effects Senior Coordinator. The honor represents a career progression from individual asset capture to leadership across the full VFX production ecosystem.
Directing and producing provides the other half of the perspective: not only how complex images are managed, but why storytellers need them in the first place.