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Personal Profile

British remote working J2ME freelancer specialising in the development and design of applications, tools and computer games. Vast experience of all areas of Java development, ranging from high level commercial Swing applications to mobile game/application development in J2ME. Masters degree in Technology & Innovation Management, excellent technical skills.

A number of titles (games and applications) in development which will be available for publishers who have a proven track record of good sales and distribution. Prototypes can be requested, and will be delivered after an NDA has been signed.

Currently based in Taipei City, Taiwan with a successful J2ME freelance career for over 5 years. Currently seeking remote J2ME freelance or contract work on projects of any size. Email me if you have any queries

Extensive portfolio and experience including :

• Winner of ‘Young Software Engineer Of The Year’ award in 2002 for undergraduate Honours Project
• Worked on many big commercial games titles and licenses (including Paperboy, Grand Theft Auto Vice City & Ice Age) as well as world leading mobile phone applications (including Visto Mobile and OilSpace)
• Developed leading Bluetooth solutions for the worlds largest mall in Dubai, in car prototypes for Seattle Police and mobile trading tools for the London Stock Exchange.
• Experience of working as Designer, Programmer, Lead Programmer, Producer, Project Manager and Technical Director for various companies in the software/games industry.

Softography (Screenshot Version)

• Commercial Video Games
  • Designer & Lead Programmer :
    • 1997 : Ultimate Gloom - Amiga, Alpha Software
    • 1998 : Zombie Massacre - Amiga, Alpha Software
    • Release due soon : Super Wah Wah Ball - Mobile phone, DC Studios
  • Lead Programmer:
    • 2003 : Sprintz - Embedded bar game, BoyStuff.co.uk
    • 2005 : Be The Boss - Mobile Phone, Beyond Capture
  • Programmer :
    • 2002 : Grand Theft Auto : Vice City - Playstation2, Rockstar North
    • 2004 : Ice Age Skater - Mobile Phone, DC Studios
    • 2004 : Planet Sagem Racer 3D - Mobile Phone, DC Studios
    • 2005 : NHRA Championship Racing - Mobile Phone, Firebrand games
    • 2008 : Paperboy: Wheels on fire - Mobile Phone, Elite Systems
    • 2008 : Ultimate Spot the difference (official) - iPhone, Sabtec
  • Producer :
    • 2006 : Bad Lads Army - Mobile Phone, ITV television

• Commercial Applications
  • Designer & Lead Programmer :
    • 2006 : AirBlue - The complete Bluetooth advertising/networking package (Server PC) - details on request (This package is available to buy and is designed for marketing companies, request information)
    • 2007 : MobyGooey - mobile phone GUI/build/porting engine (Desktop PC)- details on request.
  • Lead Programmer :
    • 2003 : Seattle Police department prototype rostering system (Desktop/Mobile PC) - details on request.
    • 2006 : Bluetooth Proximity Marketing System using OBEX (PC) - details on request.
    • 2007 : OilSpace - Oil/commodities Live trading tool (mobile phone) - details on request.
    • 2007 : Online Communities client - (mobile phone) - details on request.
  • Programmer :
    • 2008 : Visto Mobile - Mobile Phone, Visto Corporation

Programming languages

I specialise in J2ME, particularly in the area of mobile phone development. I currently have experience of the following mobile specific technologies:

• JSR 184: Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME
• JSR 120, JSR 205: Wireless Messaging API (WMA)
• JSR 135: Mobile Media API (MMAPI)
• JSR 75: FileConnection APIs & PIM
• JSR 82: Bluetooth API (read more about JSRs, I can do more.)
• Mobile phone build systems
• Porting (+Device database knowledge of): LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, SonyEricsson, Samsung, Sharp, Siemens + more.
• Signing midlets.

Other programming languages:

Java, Swing, Java3D, all areas of J2ME, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, WML, WMLScript, UML, PL/SQL, SQL, C/C++, C#, XML, COBOL, LUA, Prolog, Assembly, VRML, Perl, OPL/16, Z, Arexx, Blitz Basic, Flash Lite / ActionScript, Processing (see processing.org).

OOP/OOD and the software engineering lifecycle for application and computer game development: Multi-platform, PC, Console (PS2, Nintendo DS, PSP, GBA, CD32, XBOX360), Mobile, TC65, Embedded etc. Knowledge of many industry standard development tools including: Together, Rational Rose, MS Visual Studio, MS XNA Game Studio, RealJ, LejOS, Joomla, Kawa, LAMP, Codewarrior, NetBeans (+Matisse), Eclipse, Carbide.J, LCDUI, LWUIT, Sun WTK, Ant, CVS, JSP, Servlets, Antenna, Dreamweaver, Linux, AmigaOS etc.

I am now developing applications for Blackberry, iPhone (Objective-C), XBOX360 (XNA) as well as mobile and desktop.

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