Guardian Multimedia: Integrating audio and video to AS3

Guardian Multimedia

Ported the Guardian's audio, video and slideshow widgets to AS3. Integrated Omniture analytics logging. Worked with Brightcove to build a custom player able to display video and ad content at multiple resolutions across the Guardian site. Helped the Java team incorporate versioned SWF artifacts into their main build process using Ant, Maven and SVN.

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Amgen Sensipar: Serving interactive graphics and HD video

Amgen Sensipar

Helped San Francisco agency Viscira create a Flash-based product presentation for pharmaceutical company Amgen. Researched and advised best practices for serving HD video over the internet. Liaised with studio staff to combine multiple visual elements into a web-friendly package. The finished result combined video footage, 3D animation and motion graphics into a coherent interactive design.

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Tarceva Quiz Game: AS3 and LAMP integration

Tarceva Quiz

Helped San Francisco agency Viscira build a Jeopardy-style quiz game for pharmaceutical company Tarceva. This required plenty of hands-on work developing and integrating an AS3 client with a LAMP web app. Also spent time structuring a Scrum-based workflow to help producers coordinate designers, copywriters and interactive developers to meet oft changing client requirements.

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Guardian Open Platform: An API for all to use

Access the Guardian archive via an open API

Built an AS3 library that wraps up the Guardian Open Platform API and makes it available to Flash and Flex projects. Set up Ant scripts to manage build a SWC, generate ASDoc documentation and run a series of FlexUnit tests. Shared the result on Google code for all to use.

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Facebook BMX Game: A Sport England collaboration

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Helped build a Facebook BMX game commissioned by Sky Sports, Sport England and British Cycling. Developed a multi-player engine in record time by combining a custom SmartFox installation with a lightweight API for AS3 developers.

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