I work mostly on the 'Flash platform' though I don't think of myself as solely a Flash Developer. I have successfully developed a broad range of projects from banners to presentations to full-blown websites, touchscreen applications and video players.
I am happy to work in both AS2 and AS3. My last 3 decent sized projects have been developed using AS3/Flex Builder and the PureMVC coding framework.
I have decent PHP and CSS skills and can create and maintain MySQL databases, configure Apache sites and successfully use version control systems. I am currently working with jQuery/CSS because standards based web-sites are increasingly important and offer a lot more 'interactivity' than they used to.
In common with most multimedia developers I prepare assets for projects - video editing/re-sampling, sound editing, Photoshop/Fireworks, however I am not a designer and cannot work-up a brief into a finished design.
Usually I work within in a client focused, agency environment and am often the last point of call for technological queries from designers and troubled project managers.
When I manage to escape Planet Computer, I like to spend time with my daughters (eight and four), or relax with a good book - ideally historical and very, very heavy.
Posted : 04/07/2010
This was a defunct project from 2009. I converted the project into a Flash Builder project to speed up the development process
and subsequently updated the site with new content. I then coded a streaming music player and added
Facebook functionality so users can post to their 'Facebook wall' after the appropriate login has been completed.
Also acted as a 'prime mover' to get the PHP and related databases running again as these were no longer
live.
Eighty percent of this project was done by the time I started work on it. That said, I spent 3 weeks getting it through the Ogilvy QA process - fixed bugs, reduced memory overheads, added scrolling menus and content and sorted out a 'show-stopping' sound glitch under IE6.