Industry Experience

Fresh Media Group (Oct 05 - Sept 06)

Publishing - Lead Product Developer for Ceros Media

Fresh Media Group hired Listings Lab to create an industry leading magazine publishing application called Ceros cerosmedia.com. The product was developed from scratch to allow the online publishing of magazines from the PDF created during the normal publishing cycle of a traditional magazine.

The product has been sold commercially since summer 2006, and has been successfully used by Dennis Publishing in the launch of their ground-breaking internet-only publication:
monkeymag.co.uk

Find out more about this project. Read online reviews of the product here and here.

IG Index (Nov 04 - September 05)

Financial Sector - Senior Systems Designer/Developer

Senior flash developer overseeing the process of migrating IG Index front end systems and marketing materials to a 3rd Generation flash platform.

IG Index is the world's leading financial spread betting company. With offices in the UK and Australia, we offer clients the opportunity to speculate on a wide range of financial instruments. We also provide spread betting in the UK on many sports, entertainment and political events.

Victoria Real (Sept 04 - Nov 04)

Financial modeling for Norwich Union- Independent Flash Developer

Taking Microsoft Excel Applications designed and built by qualified actuaries as a starting point, this job required extraction of the relevant Mathematical models from the original and rebuilding the Applications in Object Oriented flash MX. The models can be viewed here.

Dynamite Idea (Jun 04 - Aug 04)

Casino Games - Independent Flash Developer & Project manager

Integrated a gambling game built by Dynamite dynamiteidea.com with BlueSquare's bluesq.com/bet OpenBet fulfilment solution using XML protocol.

Cantor Fitzgerald, London (May 03 - May 04)

Financial Sector - Senior Systems Designer/Developer

Developing financial gambling applications in Flash MX. Integrating a sophisticated java-based pricing and fulfilment system with flash web client using open socket XML protocols. Further development and maintenance of all Cantor Fitzgerald UK web properties;
cantorindex.co.uk , cantorsport.co.uk , cantormobile.co.uk

Eurobet, London (Mar 03 - May 03)

Casino Games - Senior Flash Developer & Project manager

Coordinated the development of a suite of real casino games for delivery via both CD Rom and Internet. The games replaced an existing suite that Eurobet licenses from a third party, saving the company £4 million per financial year. eurobetcasino.com

Saffron Interactive, London (Feb 03 - Mar 03)

E-Learning - Flash Developer

Using Flash MX, with component and Object Oriented Programming architecture to build an e-learning application for British Telecom to train sales staff to sell EMC products.

Pearson Broadband, London (Sept 02 - Feb 03)

E-Learning - Flash Developer on the 'KnowledgeBox' product

KnowledgeBox: A digital learning system for UK schools, KnowledgeBox provides quick and easy access to more than 1,500 digital resources matched to the National Curriculum and National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies. With KnowledgeBox, teachers can access high quality video and animation, software activities, print resources, pre-selected Internet links and teacher lesson guides. KnowledgeBox also lets teachers easily create their own lesson guides. KnowledgeBox also lets teachers easily create their own links and teacher lessons using resources based on materials they are already using in their classrooms from leading educational publishers such as Longman, 4Learning, Puffin and Dorling Kindersley. Developed by Pearson Broadband and Longman, KnowledgeBox offers truly innovative support of teaching with ICT. www.uk.knowledgebox.com

Kyunet, Sydney Australia (Jan 02 - Aug 02)

E-Learning - Senior Flash Developer

study-now.com - an e-learning website to teach business English to Japanese speakers. All ActionScript development on the project, development of a streaming technology to deliver Flash MX video, a similar audio (MP3) delivery system, and overseeing the integration of Flash into the website as a whole. Also responsible for producing the DHTML in the individual lesson pages using Dreamweaver and Macromedia CourseBuilder.

KPE Europe, London (Nov 00 - Aug 01)

New Media Agency - Senior Flash Developer

KPE, an International web-agency focusing on the entertainment industry with offices in New York, Los Angeles and London. General Responsibilities were to bring my Flash expertise to the creative department, and to bridge the creative and technical departments. I worked with the design Department, developing the ActionScript behind several online flash games and viral marketing campaigns. I also worked closely with the Entertainment department, and became familiar with the processes and software used in the production of film for both television and for the Internet, including shooting, editing and post-production. kpeeurope.com

Projects
Channel 4 channel4.co.uk
Initial Launch website for the E4 digital entertainment channel. The site content and navigation was managed by an Interwoven CMS using an XML protocol.

Aspinalls Online Casino aspinalls.com
Involved with the development of a series of viral marketing game promoting the online casino using server technology written in Java, and XML as the communication protocol. Because the game offered a cash prize, security was an issue and an encryption technology was developed in ActionScript and Java.

Flash XML Socket layer connection. Using flash version 5, I led the team developing real-time communication using flash XML socket layer. I oversaw the technical team for this production to working prototype stage.

4MAT.COM, London (May 1999 - Jan 00)

(Recruitment - Client Side Web Developer)

Gaining a grounding in basic middleware development, using Microsoft ASP technologies, and developing a method of retrieving live database information and inserting it into a browser based flash movie. This was the basis for the ‘data-driven flash’ products I have been developing ever since.

Transmedia, London, UK (Jan 99 - May 99)

Software Trainer

Developing and delivering 2-3 day courses in Flash and Dreamweaver all over the UK from basic flash introduction courses to advanced ActionScripting.

Chaos UK, Newcastle, UK (April 1998 - Jan 1999)

Small Business Owner

Whilst still studying for my degree, I started a small web-design agency using funding achieved from the Prince's Youth Business Trust, and using training and support from the government agency Business Link. I successfully secured and carried out contracts for several clients, including a Photographic shop, a marketing company, and a Canadian greeting card company. The skills I learned in this initial period have proved invaluable and I have continued to operate a limited company ever since.

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