I was running a startup with a colleague before the 2020 Corona Virus Crisis. We have a full demo of a Mindfulness app aimed at both coaches and their clients. This app is cross platform, written in Dart and Flutter, leveraging our own API that connects to a Firebase back end. Video and Code samples are available on request.

Hired as a consultant to help optimise the iOS / Android teams. I rewrote large pieces of their code in a cross-platform code-base using C++, Lua Scripting language and Dependency Injection. 

Cross-Platform Specialist

Hired initially as a Ruby on Rails Developer to help create a dashboard for a Mobile Telematics App. We changed direction internally and I was then asked to create an Android and iOS App for their flagship Telematics product, which I did, however we realised quickly that we needed to combine both codebases to avoid duplication. I was then teamed with another Designer / Architect where we designed and built a C++ / Lua cross platform framework, hired C++ developers to use it, and continued supporting and upgrading the internal framework until the company was sold in 2017.

Software Architect

I was contracted by Stipso to build a back end administration and front end user experience for their Infographic / Survey / Marketing products. All projects use Ruby, Rails, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript / Coffeescript / Jquery, Ajax and Postgres. I was the sole developer for all UX, Server and Database code.


Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

Tasked with writing a suite of 15 short and fun retro style games for a major chewing gum brand in the US. All games written using Starling / Stage3D in Actionscript 3 / Flash Builder and compatible with the Web, iOS and Android.

Game Programmer (Consultant)

My long relationship with Clustrmaps finished when the company was recently sold. Many versions of their
visitor tracking software was developed over a long period of time. The last version was written in HTML5 and Coffeescript,
producing a highly optimised graphic / animation system to display web analytics and statistics including integration with
social media for websites to monitor and track activity on their websites. I made an iOS App for Clustrmaps that they released
to their customers towards the end which gave them very detailed and visually interesting stats about their websites that
incorporated the Clustrmaps widget. During my time with Clustrmaps I was informed of their massive server uptime costs
which their legacy code was causing by rendering all of the clustrmaps on the server and sending to the webpage as a jpg. I
changed this so that the rendering was based on a compressed data file that described the visuals of the widget and that
data was then received by the widget and rendered client side instead. I continue to work with Clustrmaps founder Marc
Eisenstadt to this day on exciting hobbies / concepts, such as BlockChain based Apps.
Marc Eisenstadt, the founder of Clustrmaps also ran Meet-O-Matic, an online meeting scheduler, which I was also
responsible for maintaining and revamping occasionally. All of this work was in PHP and Javascript.


Mobile / Web Developer

At iBAHN I was working with Rails, Flash, ActionScript 2 and Actionscript 3, C++, iOS and Android.
Spending most of my time within the R&D department working on their
hospitality platforms for IPTV and other guest services. Most of the
development was for their own custom hardware with some server side
and mobile development for their guest hospitality suite.


Senior Software Engineer

Technical Lead / Senior Developer on AT&T Digital World, Pearl Drops Instant White, Drench, JCPenny, and other projects.
R&D, building internal frameworks, experimenting with Flash Video and SWF file formats. Heavy optimisation work for Size and Performance using Flash. Duties included: Technical design, functional spec, conceptual design, staff allocation, technical lead, code lead, task
allocation, bug management, managing resources and coding tasks to milestone and budget requirements, testing, pushing
releases live, R&D, project pitches, and other advisory roles

Team Lead

I was hired due to my experience with optimising Video Game Multiplayer Communications. They wanted to leverage my experience optimizing, packing data efficiently, minimising error loss, rapid encoding and decoding of data into the relevant datastores, synchronisation, etc.

Senior Software Analyst

I was initially hired by Minds Eye Productions to co-design and program Monopoly Junior, a children’s game for Hasbro Interactive. During the production of Monopoly Junior I was promoted to Development Manager. I hired the technical staff needed to complete the Monopoly Junior and Thomas the Tank Engine projects, both of which were completed on time. I went on to technically produce and hire another team to develop Pac Man – Adventures in Time for Namco / Hasbro Interactive. I also worked on tools for Starsky and Hutch, and other emerging titles.
I designed Minds Eyes internal code libraries, managed several other projects, liaised with publishers, often spending time overseas representing Minds Eye when visiting publishers.

Development Manager

I developed and co-designed Art Attack: A Creative package that includes a Paint Program, Animator and a fun Creative Studio. Art Attack was developed using C++, Direct Draw, Direct Sound, Direct Input and includes fast 2D and 3D graphics techniques, Sound Playback via several streams allowing music and overlaid special effects, Video Playback, and Animated Scenes. A full virtual scrolling desktop was implemented using classic tile based mapping techniques. I also wrote several Windows Tools for the generation of the Maps, Tiles and Graphics. A flexible file/script system was also written that
echoes the basic functionality of the C language allowing the software to be completely data driven. I also helped build a team for their Rally Games and created several architectural game engines for other internal projects.

Senior Game Developer

Hallman had an exciting concept of a Multiplayer Pub Football game, which was to run on Pub / Sports Bar large screen TV’s. I worked with a team of four, training two people in C++ whilst directing the development of the project.
I designed and coded football player AI, ISDN multiplayer, special graphical effects, and infrared controller handling. The game used the same projection screens often used in pubs for Sky Sports and utilised custom wireless controllers.
way before xbox came to market. I am very proud of the development work we put into this game. Ultimately the sales of the
game were lacklustre and the project was sold completely to a french chain of bars and the development was shut down.

I was hired, to give help and advice on C++ programming and to bridge the knowledge gap between the UK and US teams.
The UK team was to use existing code from the Wing Commander game series when writing the ‘Darkening’ project. Whilst at EA,
I contributed to the overall object design for the game along with Artificial Intelligence, 3D engine implementation, Animation, Flight Model Dynamics, Data File Formats and Sound Streaming.

Software Engineer

My position involved the production of Amusement Machines. My projects spanned from concept development to the final game code, visuals and sounds. I used the Unix Operating System and "C" cross compilers for the 6809, 6502, 68000 processors. During my time at Maygay I was given the responsibility to write software on the PC that would make the coding
of any new machine more automated. This was largely based on my previous knowledge gained through writing authoring applications.
I eventually moved to the R&D department, where I furthered my OOP/OOD skills, designed 3D code, and experimented with very early multiplayer technology using dial up modems.

I started a company called Oryn Digital with a project written in Dart, Flutter, Javascript, and Firebase for mindfulness coaches and their clients. Myself and my business partner who I have worked with several times in my career took on this work with my partner working as a producer / co-designer while I wrote all of the code, designed all of the graphics, sound and API / Database work. A Video demo of this project can be made available. Work has suspended due to the 2020 Pandemic.

I've been writing games since I was 13 (Early 80s). Starting with Z80 on a ZX80, 6502 for Commodore Machines, 68000 on later Commodore and Atari, moving onto 6809 and 68000 for Arcade Machines. Finally adopting x86 before transitioning to C, then C++ until modern languages like Lua, Javascript, Java became more useful, which I leveraged for scripting engines. I've been involved with all aspects of game development over 3 decades professionally.

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