Contract work

• Senior programmer in a team producing games, maps and graphing tools for high-profile financial organisations, using Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and JavaScript/jQuery.• Lead Flash programmer on http://www.expatexplorer.hsbc.com/ which includes the award-winning Box2D-driven “bubble map” guide to popular expatriate destinations.• Created and maintained a suite of children’s games on http://www.jcbexplore.com/• Mentored new team members and provided software development training for the entire team, employing use cases and sequence diagrams to plan complicated projects, as well as giving technical presentations and tutorials.• Helped create and maintain a stock-watching tool, both as an iPhone app (using Objective C) and as a Vista Desktop Gadget (using JavaScript and HTML).• Created back-end interfaces for Flash, iPhone and iPad applications using Visual C# .NET.• Produced an image gallery application using MS Silverlight’s Deep Zoom technology.• Created and maintained various iPhone and iPad applications, using Objective C.

• Created and maintained a suite more than 60 multilingual online games and applications for http://www.jackpotjoy.com/ including slot machines, poker, roulette, quizzes, tutorials and chat rooms.• Created tutorials to guide players through site registration and playing the games.• Programmed brand-focused games, featuring popular brands such as Big Brother, Coronation Street, GMTV and The X Factor. These games had to be heavily load tested, due to being advertised on television (ITV and Channel 4) as well as being featured on many major UK homepages, including Yahoo, Orange and MSN.• Ported large amounts of ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 code to ActionScript 3.0.• Taught usability techniques to improve existing GUI.• Taught refactoring techniques to improve team skills and the existing code base.

• Created C++ device drivers for treadmills, exercise bikes and electronic scales. Information gathered by the driver was stored in a MySQL database, allowing gym users to record their workouts and chart their progress towards fitness goals.• Produced online tutorials to train gym staff and gym users in use of their new computer system, as well as preparing and giving live tutorials and training courses.• Helped produce and maintain a Flash GUI (accessed via a touch-screen) that allowed gym users to access their fitness records mid-workout.• Linux system network administration.• MySQL database administration (installation, set-up and maintenance).• GUI design and programming using Flash, ActionScript, Fireworks and Photoshop.• Developed various utilities and middleware products using Perl, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro.• Technical author and proofreader for company documentation / promotional material.

• Senior programmer leading a six-person team in the design and implementation of a test suite in Perl.• Object-orientated design and development of a financial application web interface using Sybase PowerBuilder, JavaScript, HTML and Oracle.• Part of a team of 30+ C programmers writing telecommunications code for Orange.• Part of the Quality Assurance (QA) team for a high-security government project.• Visual Basic programming reading data from MS Word and Visio files to produce C code templates from pre-existing structured documentation and flowcharts.

This section describes the work done over several summer holiday placements during University.• Senior programmer leading a team of four in the production of multimedia web pages giving access to videos and transcripts of speeches given by IBM's technical experts.• Taught and mentored work experience students in HTML, JavaScript and Perl.• Improvement of internal communication channels via creation and development of a prototype intranet site (using HTML, JavaScript and Perl), while liaising with senior managers and professionals to develop the site specification.• Authored and administered a web-based software-reuse database, using C, HTML and SQL.

• Liaised between customers and IBM's technical specialists.• Used SQL to perform DBA duties for a database of client requirements.• Prototyped a web-based interface for a back-end database in REXX.• Part of a student team responsible for initiating IBM UK’s interest in Java.