OBJECTIVE:
To apply my programming & design skills, to advance an organization leading the trends in interactive marketing, and to keep my expertise ahead of the bleeding edge of technology. I am most interested in crafting cross-device data-driven experiences.
SKILLS:
- Android / iPhone Web App Development
- various project-management / tracking / wiki / blog software
- Movie special effects with Maya for 5 years before I made the jump to web programming
2 years experience
- jQuery JavaScript Library
2 years experience
- PHP, MySQL, some Apache mod_rewrite5 years experience
- HTML5 Strict / Transitional, cross-device-compliant CSS
10 years experience
- Facebook Graph API, Connect, Canvas Apps, FBML, widgets
4 years experience
- Twitter Phirehose
6 months experience
- Flash AS3/2, Flash Builder, FDT, Flex 4, and a lot of integrating them all8 years experience
- Objective C for iPhone Cocoa
3-6 months introduction
- OOP, MVC, Cairngorm design patternsalways searching for the fastest, most flexible, and full-featured way to code
- SVN Management and SVN-client-wrangling- various project-management / tracking / wiki / blog software
- Movie special effects with Maya for 5 years before I made the jump to web programming
EXPERIENCE:
Petrol Advertising
Advertising Agency: http://www.petrolad.com/
Senior Developer
March 2009 -- July 2011
PROJECTS:
RIOT GAMES LOBBY MONITORS
SONY PLAYSTATION MOBILE SITE
MXvsATV MOBILE SITE
TOMB RAIDER TEASER SITE -- http://www.tombraider.com/
FALKEN TIRE -- http://www.falkenfanatic.com/
THE CRAZIES MOVIE -- Battlemail Facebook Game
NOX AUDIO -- http://www.nox-audio.com/Simulator
FIDM DIGITAL ARTS -- http://www.fidmdigitalarts.com/
HOUSE OF REVENJ -- http://www.houseofrevenj.com/
THE CONDUIT -- http://www.seeing-is-deceiving.com/
UDRAW SITE -- UDraw Tablet
project still under NDA
- AS3 project to display real-time, in-game statistics from their game network in their lobby
- Consisted of a World Map with active user locations, a Forum Feed, and an In-Game Achievements Detail.
- Managed database architecture on Riot's side
- Wrote all of the infrastructure for connecting Flash Apps to the backend in a near real-time fashion
- Wrote all the dynamic animation routines necessary to reflect state
SONY PLAYSTATION MOBILE SITE
project still under NDA
- A redesign for mobile devices of http://us.playstation.com/
- Built an HTML/jQuery solution, Android/iPhone compatible
- Major challenge was to create horizontal-swiping HTML menus that functioned without swiping the page
- Also wrote a jQuery lazy-loader for image content to reduce the page load sizes
- Extremely detail-oriented project: corporate spec, as well as the templates would later be re-engineered with real data...the front-end UI needed to survive that surgery
MXvsATV MOBILE SITE
project still under NDA
- Android/iPhone compatible HTML
- Animated menus, accordion UI, breadcrumbs
TOMB RAIDER TEASER SITE -- http://www.tombraider.com/
- HTML site intended to be mobile accessible
FALKEN TIRE -- http://www.falkenfanatic.com/
Falken Fanatic site is an endeavor designed to create a sense of community around Falken's racing, offroading, and gorgeous models
- Followed the lead of another developer
- Built this as a custom HTML blog with a robust CMS
- Features included video uploading/processing via PHP, image uploading, galleries, threads/topics/comments management, and sweepstakes
THE CRAZIES MOVIE -- Battlemail Facebook Game
- Viral initiative targeting facebook users
- A glorified rock-paper-scissors game where a user chooses a series of 10 zombie killing-techniques
- Their friends are invited via Facebook to defend themselves by choosing their 10 defenses
- Then we filmed all possible combinations, and the user gets to watch a video play out to reveal the winner
NOX AUDIO -- http://www.nox-audio.com/Simulator
- Nice little Flash piece to show-off their flagship headphones
FIDM DIGITAL ARTS -- http://www.fidmdigitalarts.com/
- 1 of 3 developers built out this full Flash experience, data XML-driven
HOUSE OF REVENJ -- http://www.houseofrevenj.com/
- Flash E-Commerce site
- Built on the Magento software
THE CONDUIT -- http://www.seeing-is-deceiving.com/
- A GigaPan-style application for the web
- Challenge was to stage the load of an image with a resolution exceeding 100,000px in width.
UDRAW SITE -- UDraw Tablet
Heavenspot
Design Agency: http://www.heavenspot.com/
Developer
August 2007 -- February 2009
PROJECTS:
ADOBE CS3 BRILLIANT SITE
DEMAND MEDIA CORPORATE SITE
CREATA
NEWLINE CINEMA - HAROLD & KUMAR 2 FACEBOOK "Bottomless Party" APP
XM RADIO - XM BASEBALL FACEBOOK "Bobblehead" APP
REDBULL, Shaun White
No longer online
- Flash experience with modular vignettes from studios promoting CS3
DEMAND MEDIA CORPORATE SITE
No longer online
- HTML site with dynamic breadcrumb utility to work with the CMS
- Built a back-end manager for dynamically handling site links
- Built all of the News/Press front-end functionality, sharing, rss, pagination, etc
CREATA
- Built the Flash game and engine Polar Passage
NEWLINE CINEMA - HAROLD & KUMAR 2 FACEBOOK "Bottomless Party" APP
Unsupported as of FB's new profile rollout
- Flash app prompted users to upload photos and place them on a nude-bottomed model
- Full Facebook integration with voting, points, and wall posts
XM RADIO - XM BASEBALL FACEBOOK "Bobblehead" APP
Unsupported as of FB's new profile rollout
- Flash app prompted users to upload photos and place them on a bobbly Pro Baseball anim
- Full Facebook integration with voting, points, and wall posts
REDBULL, Shaun White
No longer online
- Integrated a Flex app with WordPress API as a backend CMS
Panjea
Start up video-sharing company: http://www.panjea.com/
Chief Architect
February 2007 - August 2007
PROJECT:
http://www.panjea.com/builder/
- 1 of 2 front-end developers
- Built a Flex app for conglomerating and sharing "channels" of internet video from many sources, including YouTube, Google, MySpaceTV, MetaCafe, etc
- 1 of 2 front-end developers
- Built a Flex app for conglomerating and sharing "channels" of internet video from many sources, including YouTube, Google, MySpaceTV, MetaCafe, etc
Happy Love Design
http://www.happylovedesign.com/
Owner
June 2004 - February 2007
PROJECTS:
Many, many projects...please browse the website 'Project History'
Rhythm & Hues
Movie special effects: http://www.rhythm.com/
Technical Director, Lighter
August 2003 - May 2004
PROJECTS:
Garfield -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356634/
- used proprietary software to light and render Garfield
Scooby Doo II -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331632/
- same job
- used proprietary software to light and render Garfield
Scooby Doo II -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331632/
- same job
The Karate Dog
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270882/
Technical Director, 3D Hair programmer
January 2001 - January 2002
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm962369792/tt0240468
Technical Director, modeling, texturing, hair, lighting
March 2000 - December 2000
I and several others did that whole kung-fu cow sequence
South Park, Movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158983/
Technical Director
January 1999 - June 1999
Scissors and construction-paper development -- jk, Alias Wavefront 3D
Parkin Design
Print design studio with clients like LA Philharmonic, EMI Music, etc
Assistent Designer
January 1996 - November 1998
EDUCATION:
Art Center College of Design
http://www.artcenter.edu/
Computer Graphics & Illustration
January 1996 - November 1998
Northern Michigan University
http://www.nmu.edu/
Undergraduate studies
September 1994 - December 1995