Developer Development

Jonathan Blackburn

Flash/Mobile Developer

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Toronto, ON M4C 2L9

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** ***** ******* ********** (5 years Actionscript development) in both a team setting and as an

individual

design patterns usage (MVC, Factory, Strategy, Singleton, Adapter, Decorator, Facade)

data modeling, functional specification and development plan writing abilities

firm belief in collaborative, best-practices approach to achieve superior end result

a love of learning (after all, experience only matters if I keep trying to improve & evolve my skills)

Selected Work Samples

Ogilvy Renault iPhone app (October 2010)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ogilvy-renault-llp/id392307922?mt=8

Fried Frank iPhone app (December 2010)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fried-frank/id407774132?mt=8

Paul Hastings iPhone app (February 2010)

http://itunes.apple.com/sa/app/paul-hastings-janofsky-walker/id418535227?mt=8

Sennheiser Sound Tour

http://sennheisersoundtour.com/ (2009)

A microsite to chronicle Sennheiser s 30+ city promotional tour of North America in summer, 2009

Contributions:

related products, a module that uses meta data to present products to the user

interactive map detailing the route & progress of each touring team

Trojan Naked Sensations

Trojan Naked Sensations (2009) (the site is no longer up, so this is a video)

Trojan s viral Create a Sensation initiative.

Contributions:

viral component upload & submission development

php image generation, administrative panel and fully-branded HTML email delivery system

Kolody.ca

www.kolody.ca (2009)

Internal site re-development

Contributions:

the News section (including menu options, transitions, state management)

an internal content management tool to allow our sales force to update site testimonials

Murdoch Mysteries

www.murdochmysteries.com (March 2009)

The website of the TV Series Murdoch Mysteries, deployed in Canada and the UK.

Contributions:

developing the Photo Gallery and Science of Murdoch packages

Experience

Flash/iPhone Developer, Panvista Media Corp; Toronto - August 2009 - April 2011

Developed news reader (Actionscript) that could be deployed in any web site, as well as a desktop

AIR application for the community-based web publishing platform that was the business focus at

the time. In early-mid 2010, Panvista shifted its focus to developing a mobile application platform

(www.joyspoon.com) and has sold into the Canadian & United States legal industries. My contribution

was to develop an iPhone application framework, featuring a variety of display templates that can be

customized with interchangeable navigation bars and colour themes.

Developer, Kolody Inc; Toronto - 2006 - August 2009

Kolody Inc. specializes in developing feature-rich, textured Flash applications with robust back-ends

to power them. As such, my roles switched between object-oriented Actionscript 3 web sites and php/

MySQL development.

Developer, Teletoon Canada Inc; Toronto - 2004 - 2006

Developed Flash modules for teletoon.com (activities, contests, microsites) as well as php modules to

manage content for the flagship site and thedetour.ca.

Interactive Designer, Marketspace Design Group; Toronto - 2002 - 2004

Designed and developed web sites using largely client-side technologies (Flash, HTML, JavaScript,

CSS).

Freelance Developer, Toronto - 2001 - 2002

Mostly brochure-ware and simple Flash game development.

Flash Developer, DECODE Entertainment Inc.; Toronto - 2000 2001

Developed site and Flash games for Angela Anaconda online property.

S ki l l s

Core: Actionscript 3 (including AIR), Objective-C

Complimentary: XML, php, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript

Environments: Industry-standard authoring environments (Adobe, XCode)

Other: Unit testing with GHUnit, version control (GIT)

Education

Ryerson University, Journalism (BAA) 1997

References

Available on request

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