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Manager Development

Location:
Los Angeles, CA, 90025
Posted:
August 13, 2010

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Experience

Ramsey Isler

February 2009 - Feb. 2010 Appliya, Inc. Los Angeles/Tokyo

North American Branch Manager - iPhone applications

Responsible for managing all North American Operations for Appliya, Inc.,

a Japanese iPhone app development company. Provided design and concept

development for applications, as well as ensuring quality standards were

met during production. Led North American business development services

including intellectual property licenses and contract negotiations. Led

promotional efforts and social media strategy for all apps.

1. Managed a multi-property iPhone app licensing deal with FUNimation

Inc, a top American anime company

2. Designed several iPhone applications for world-famous franchises

including Neon Genesis Evangelion and Fullmetal Alchemist

August 2007 - Current Los Angeles, CA

Freelance Mobile Developer

Developing mobile application prototypes for companies like Cricket,

Palm, and AT&T. Specializing in user interface/experience for upcoming

and experimental mobile applications and devices.

September 2005 - Current IGN Entertainment Los Angeles,

CA

Writer

Freelance writer and editorial contributor for IGN.com, specializing in

TV, anime/manga, and video games.

Late 2007 Clearwire/Clearmedia Los Angeles, CA

Senior Manager of Flash Development

Developed on-device rich media strategy for Clearmedia, a subsidiary of

wireless broadband ISP Clearwire. Created tech demos for executive

presentations in Flash, Flash Lite, and AIR as part of a mobile-to-

desktop content ecosystem strategy. Guided user interface and front-end

development planning for Clearwire's new Clear 365 portal website.

Mar. 2006 - August 2007 Amp'd Mobile Los Angeles, CA

Flash Engineer/Architect

Led Flash UI development and architecture for the Amp'd Live storefront and

media player on the Motorola Q. Developed software products on BREW and

Windows Mobile phones. Often collaborated with engineering, QA, and product

teams at Motorola, Qualcomm, and Verizon. Managed a small team of Flash

developers and closely interacted with Adobe developers, executives, and

product managers.

1. Received awards from Adobe for filing the most bug reports for the

BREW beta release of Flash Lite 2.1

Jan. 2005 - March 2006 Naviciti, LLC Detroit, MI

Technical Director/Co-founder

Developed Flash-based interactive map applications for tourism and city

planning. Integrated other mapping APIs (Google, Yahoo!, etc.) with

Naviciti software. Responsible for technical strategy and all

development tasks.

Nov. 2000 - Nov. 2002 Rootlevel, Inc. Detroit, MI

Programmer / Software Designer

Primarily provided lead front-end and interactive programming expertise

on large projects including GM.com and La-Z-Boy.com. Specialized in

Flash, PhotoShop, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS and media conversion.

Utilized back-end skills in PERL, PHP, ASP and SQL when needed.

Administered and maintained Linux servers and web applications. Worked

on a large number of projects both individually and as part of a team.

Lead developer on the award-winning 2002 GM.com North American

International Auto Show site, and member of the GM.com maintenance team

3. Lead developer on all DHTML and Flash projects

4. Developed Flash and Director games for the Jeep Liberty advertising

campaign

5. Built the Linux based text-messaging schedule system for the 2002

Michigan IT Summit

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY

Software Engineering Major

Skills

. Front-end web programming - HTML, JavaScript, Flash

. Back-end web Programming - LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

. Customer relations

. Graphic Design

. Business Development

. Mobile Industry Expertise

. Game Development (C, Java, Flash)

. Product Development/Management

. Managing small teams of developers and designers

. Social Media Management

. Writing - Technical writing, fiction, non-fiction, blogging

Other Accomplishments

. Authored three novels



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