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Guardian Multimedia: Integrating audio and video to AS3

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:32:22 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:37:05 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:13:10 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:52:05 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:51:33 +0000

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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Moshi Monsters: Building interactive games for kids

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:29:36 +0000

Led the development of an award-winning virtual world where kids can adopt monsters with unique personalities. Worked with illustrators, animators and designers to create a Flash client with features like puzzle solving, social networking, mini-games, user-generated content and a dynamic behavior engine with its own scripting language.

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The Folk Songs Project: Exploring cultural identity through sound

admin — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:06:45 +0000

Co-founded a project exploring themes of cultural identity by mapping the sounds of New York, Manchester and five Portuguese cities. This work combined a Flash client with a MySQL database and a custom MP3 streaming engine. It was featured in TimeOut, the Guardian newspaper and BBC Radio and won several prizes and festival commissions.

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BioMed Central: Enabling open-access publishing

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:42:23 +0000

Coordinated the conversion of over 150 electronic journal titles to a J2EE platform for one of the world's largest open-access publishers. The chosen architecture combined an Oracle-backed SOA with web apps built using Struts, JSP and Velocity.

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