Profile:

1999 - present

Lexicon Design UK Ltd..

Position:

Freelance Flash Developer/Designer, UK

Description:

Lexicon Design UK Ltd. is my own company who I work under for freelance contracts. (Formally established as a limited company at the beginning of 2005).

I started off in 1999 by delivering projects of various sizes (major projects are listed below) from touching up photography in Photoshop, creating multimedia presentations to creating websites and more complex content management, e-commerce and e-learning systems.

I have specialised in delivering more complex and dynamic Flash based applications (particularly in e-learning), making the most of the latest OOP implementation of ActionScript wherever possible.

In my spare time I am putting together an e-learning package in conjunction with a Lesson Designer and an Illustrator. This is designed primarily to be a portfolio piece, highlighting each of our skills to their best. Our secondary objective is to expand on this in our spare time until we have a product ready to be published.The first module (Roman Britain) has now been written and has received enthusiastic approval from some local school teachers. I am now busy developing the Flash based software and writing a comprehensive library of classes. We are hoping to have the first module finished within a month.

Jun2006

Maplecroft, Bath

Freelance Position:

Flash Designer/Developer

Description:

This small-scale project was to design and develop a highly dynamic graph generator, designed to map out important issues for the World Economic Forum.

Created in Flash 8 to display XML data.

Sep2005-May2006

Bosenet, London

Freelance Position:

Flash Designer/Developer

Description:

Complete development of a large scale business coaching DVD containing many multimedia components. The project contains animations, videos, sounds, presentations, slideshows, mp3 player, printable interactive forms and text based pages.

The application was created in Flash8 (AS2) and XML. It was compiled into an executable using Zinc.

Information from forms and mp3 playlists were stored in various xml files written to the users harddrive.

I was responsible for advising on and implementing the designs with various third party designers and animators.

Also responsible for managing myself; by designing the architecture, working out development times and creating deadlines as well as liasing with the overall project manager, various designers/animators etc.

Soley responsible for designing and writing all the code and incorporating all the elements into the final application. The modular design of the application was developed so that it can be easily changed and updated. It can be re-branded and content changed by editing XML files.

Aug2005-Oct2005

Biscit, Yorkshire

Freelance Position:

Flash Designer/Developer

Description:

Design and development of a dynamic animation editor and player.

These web-applications were written in Flash 8 (AS2), XML and PHP. The brief was to create an application where golf club owners could create their own animations to show how to complete their golf course best.<.p>

The application works by allowing the user to set up a series of frames which have an editable time variable. The users can then add certain events to these frames:

• Add, remove narration text.
• Hide or display images that the user uploads.
• Add, remove, position and animate various premade elements (such as balls, flags, arrows, hazards etc).
• Draw in realistic ball trajectories that the ball can animate along.
• Draw totally custom freeform shapes (used to highlight areas of interest in any uploaded image).

Details of each animation are saved as XML files via a PHP backend so that the player application can be used as a standalone desktop application or on a website.

Jan2005-Aug2005

Cranfield University of Military Science, Shrivenham (nr Swindon)

Freelance Position:

Flash Developer

Description:

This involved working on various e-learning projects for the MOD. In addition to building the lesson pages I was also responsible for designing and creating numerous ActionScript 2.0 classes to help ease the workflow and introduce some consistency for all programmers employed to program the individual pages in the various lessons. I also advised on the use of shared class libraries and how the efficiency of the ActionScript and swf files could be improved.

Also responsible for designing a large scale project to share content between different document types (Flash, inDesign, PDF, Word and Others) using xml, xslt etc. I was heavily involved in the research, design and creating the project proposal documentation for this particular project.

Jan2004-Nov2004

The Learning Business, Wellingborough

Position:

Flash Designer/Developer

Description:

Responsible for the design and development of the SCORM compliant e-learning module player on which the company is based, using Flash MX 2004 Pro (with AS1 and AS2 versions), XML and mp3. New lessons and unique corporate theming could be easily added by use of simple configuration files.

I designed and built Flash based e-learning materials to be played in the player for clients such as Hotpoint, Neff and General Electrics (GE Sentinel).

Designed and built the new company website and logo’s.

Designed and built various e-learning and animation related material for various websites including www.businesslink.gov.uk.

Jun2002-Sep2003

Megazone Technology Ltd., Leicester

Position:

Graphic Design, Avil Technician, Multimedia and Animatronics.

Description:

Hardware and software support for Avil which controls all sorts of things from animatronics to theme park rides. This included creating graphics and software for a “Crystal Maze” style visitor attraction in Ireland and refurbishing a theme park ride in Alton Towers (“Duel, Haunted House Strikes Back”).
I designed all the companies advertising material for magazines such as Parkworld and Interpark. I also designed the company brochures, business cards, posters, leaflets, signs, logo’s, exhibition stands and everything else that needed designing.
Responsible for designing and building multimedia presentations, websites, games, music using Flash(actionscript), Director, Multimedia Fusion, HTML etc.

jan2001 - Mar2002

Coleman Graff Interactive. Lutterworth Leicestershire.

Position:

Multi-Media and Web Designer/Developer

Description:

Designing and building websites using a variety of techniques, including, Flash (and actionscripting), (D)HTML, Perl, Coldfusion, JavaScript and Photoshop.
I was also responsible for developing all of the multimedia projects for the company. This included many animations, presentations, sounds, 3D work etc.

Jul2000 - Nov2000

Digital Systems. Sandiacre, Derbyshire

Position:

Computer Technician

Description:

I was building and testing computers. Also responsible for carrying out some on-site repairs and installations. In addition to this I redesigned the company website and created newspaper adverts for the local papers.