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Last Update:
April 2008
A b o u t

Experience

April 2001 - Present
Freelance Flash/Actionscript developer
Agency work as an Actionscript developer for various clients including BT, Toyota, NatWest, Sainsbury’s, John Lewis, Diageo, Deutsch Bank & DHL, developing advanced web and desktop application’s with Flash and MDM Zinc, Flash integration with ASP/.NET backend, corporate training CDROM’s (with flv streaming video), Flash microsites with dynamic multi-language XML, games, e-learning applications, classes, scripted animation, XML generation from Flash, Flash-Javascript communication and AS tweening.

Other experience includes 14 month Flash ActionScript Developer contract at NCALT, 8 month Flash ActionScript Developer contract working on Pearson's UK Knowledgebox, a series of eight medical training cdrom's for Healthcare Productions, websites for Broomfield House School and photographer Caroline Shuttle, business card cdrom for Grant Thornton, drewmedia website, "Real Victorian's" children's educational cdrom and more.

Further details of these projects can be found in the portfolio.

1999 - 2001
Act Two Ltd
Multimedia developer on PC Friendly, a fortnightly adult computer training CD-ROM and magazine partwork published by GE Fabbri Ltd. Produced the first twenty-four issues of this product in twelve months, working to extremely tight deadlines. Highly regarded within the team.

Promoted to lead developer on PC Play and Learn, a series of educational multimedia products for 5-7 year old children. Responsibilities included supervising and training two junior developer, delegating the programming, co-ordinating testing, preparing master discs for production and meeting tight project deadlines.

Moved on to work as lead developer on Nutrition Mission, an interactive CD-ROM created for the British Heart Foundation. Responsible for programming, representing the programming team at meetings, advising on technical issues, and providing work breakdown and deadline estimates.

Summer 1996
Freelance website developer
Developed a number of small to medium sized websites.

(Note: Please contact me if you require a detailed CV - this is just a summary.)

Skills

Software package Basic Advanced Expert
Flash 8     6yrs
Authorware 7     3yrs
Director 8     2yrs
mdm Zinc     2yrs
PhotoShop CS2   4yrs  
SoundForge 8   4yrs  
Dreamweaver MX 2004   3yrs  
Nero 8   3yrs  
Sothink SWF Decompiler 3   2yrs  

 

Programming/Scripting Basic Advanced Expert
HTML     5+yrs
Actionscript     5yrs
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)     2yrs
Lingo     2yrs
XML & XHTML   2yrs  
Perl/CGI   1yr  
JavaScript   1yr  
C/C++ 1yr    

 

 

Education

1997 - 1999: MSc in Computing University of Limerick, Ireland
1993 - 1997: B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering University of Limerick, Ireland

 

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