Jason P. Kaplan Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Leading technical team with agile development practices and direct management of developers. Overseeing the development of all projects in a technical capacity. Training junior programmers on development practices and style. Developing original IP for mobile devices as well as interactive content for existing properties on web (HTML5/Phaser) and mobile (Unity3d/Spine). Projects include Pop Rocket Rescue (http://poprocketrescue.com) and the upcoming Justin Time GO PLAY!

Toronto, Canada Area

Creation and management of code standards and programming practices for all in-house development. Outlining technical scope of work and timelines for development of features and applications. Leading technical team with agile development practices and direct management of developers. Overseeing the development of all projects in a technical capacity. Research of emerging technologies, technologies best suited for each project, and technology integration. Aiding in debugging and the tutelage of junior developers on the team.

Toronto, Canada Area

Unity3D and C# programmer for iOS interactive media applications such as CBC's The Moblees second-screen experience. Development of features and applications for mobile technology. Building prototypes for new ideas and innovations. Project management of junior mobile developers.

Toronto, Canada Area

Unity3D and C# programmer for primarily mobile application/games development for television properties owned by DHX Media Ltd. Developer on Yo Gabba Gabba! Hello Friends, Inspector Gadget, Pikotoons, Doozer Creek, Doozer Podmobile. Additionally developed internal intranet web applications, internal marketing applications, and other systems for games and applications.

Global/Online

The Game Prototype Challenge was a not-for-profit monthly event encouraging game designers and developers to create rapid prototypes within a time and theme constraint. I began the initiative after being inspired by Gamercamp (a Toronto-based game development conference) and was the sole creator and organizer. Visit gameprototypechallenge.tumblr.com for more details.

Toronto, Canada Area

Independent game development, making games in Adobe Flash for the web and working on iOS titles to launch across iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. My recent iOS projects include Go!Speed!Go!, starcatcher, and Flew The Coop. I'm also on Kongregate and Newgrounds: http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/JasonPKaplan and http://jasonpkaplan.newgrounds.com/

Toronto, Canada Area

My time at Spatial View was spent helping development of 3DeeCentral. Mostly C++ programming; worked with .JPS and .MPO files and static 3D image displays. Also some C#/.NET programming, creating COM DLL for use in C++ for YouTube. Used Qt for tool development. Worked in a Windows environment.

Toronto, Canada Area

My triOS College Video Game Design and Development program internship was spent with the great people at TransGaming Studio (visit the studio's website at studios.transgaming.com) working on Garage Inc. which will be deployed across a number of platforms. I worked primarily in a Windows environment and dabbled in the Mac environment to help bring the game to fruition.

Bcmp, Computing

Studied: Linear Algebra, Differential and Integral Calculus, Discrete Math for Computer Science, Intro. to Computer Science 1 and 2, Logic.

Video Game Design And Development + Internship

Studied: C Programming, Career Management, C++ Programming, Video Game Technical Design, Video Game Business, Video Game Mathematics.