Sr Software Engineer / Sr Designer at LX Interactive
Vancouver, Canada Area
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- Director of Technology at Clubvibes.com
- Sr Software Engineer / Sr Designer at LX Interactive
- Past
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- Development Manager at Trader Corporation
- Sr Interface Developer at Blast Radius
- Development Director at Electronic Arts Canada
- Development Manager at Electronic Arts Canada
- Project Manager / Sr Web Developer at Electronic Arts Canada
- Sr Web Developer at Electronic Arts Canada
- Sr Web Developer at Moderngroove Entertainment
- Sr Web Developer / Programmer at Earthramp Inc.
- Sr Web Developer at Global Interactive & Digital Eyez
- Web Devleoper / Designer at Liquid FX Interactive (Sole Proprietorship)
- Graphic Designer, Web Developer, IT & IS at Spinnaker Publishing
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Al Harding’s Summary
A Vancouver software engineer, developer, development manager, and consultant with over 15 years of professional experience with online application development and an extensive background in computer hardware and software applications going back over 25 years. Experience and knowledge in finance, publishing, healthcare, online gaming, and interactive entertainment industries. Highly motivated and passionate individual with strong team and collaboration skills. Relentlessly pushes forward.
Al Harding’s Specialties:
C#, ASP.NET, databases, SQL Server, HTML, XHTML, XML, DHTML, Document Object Model (DOM), CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, ASP.NET AJAX, Amazon Web Services, APIs, Google APIs, RSS, Visual Studio, Yahoo YUI Libs, Photoshop, graphic design, web development, web design, online application development, project management.
Al Harding’s Experience
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Director of Technology
Clubvibes.com
(Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Currently leading development of a complete rebuild of clubvibes.com -- Beta version launched May 2009. Designing all UI/UX and new AJAX interfaces for the entire website including listings and events engines, search engine, and member profiles. Rearchitected their databases and moved from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. Optimized all tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, etc and took advantage of SQL 2K5 improvements such as CTEs. Designed and built all forms, all XHTML, all CSS, all JavaScript. Client-side technologies included ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET AJAX, and jQuery. Built entire site (as a single developer) from scratch replacing the legacy VB Script Classic ASP site and moving to a C# and ASP.NET 3.5.
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Sr Software Engineer / Sr Designer
LX Interactive
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Currently the lead software architect designing and developing several social media and online community products. Designing and building social, widget, mobile applications using Facebook API, FBML / FQL, Google's OpenSocial platform, Blackberry SDK, Google Android and Apple iPhone SDKs. Responsible for the design, production, and management of web projects using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server 2005/2008, ASP.NET AJAX, and jQuery.
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Development Manager
Trader Corporation
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Worked with Trader Corporation to optimize their automotive web properties including: AutoTrader.ca, CanadaTrader.com, Trader.ca, Hebdo.net, and MSN AutoTrader. Managed a small team of developers located in Burnaby, Toronto, and Montreal. Responsibilities included overseeing consolidation of multiple codebases, feature development, and transitioning to agile development methodologies. Technologies included: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, SQL Server 2005, and ASP.NET AJAX.
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Sr Interface Developer
Blast Radius
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
March 2007 — November 2007 (9 months)
Worked as a Senior Interface Developer at Blast Radius at their Vancouver headquarters. Technologies included XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, TrimPath, Dojo Toolkit to create AJAX interfaces for an Electronic Arts project. Blast Radius is an award winning Customer Experience agency with clients that include: Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Starbucks, BMW, and Nike.
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Development Director
Electronic Arts Canada
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)
September 2005 — January 2006 (5 months)
Responsible for the development of an upcoming sports game on the Sony PSP. Managed a team of software engineers, producers, assistant producers, interface designers, audio artists, etc. Responsible for all production deliverables and ensuring a high calibre product was delivered and shipped on time and on budget.
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Development Manager
Electronic Arts Canada
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)
September 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for day-to-day management of projects on EA Canada's new Team Fusion devoted to next generation portable game systems. Key role functions included; creating improved production processes to help streamline production, managing development schedules, and managing a team of 24.
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Project Manager / Sr Web Developer
Electronic Arts Canada
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)
February 2004 — September 2004 (8 months)
Was a founding contributor of Electronic Arts' Worldwide Knowledge department. Helped manage and develop strategies for web based knowledge management projects, team development solutions, competitive intelligence systems, online training systems. Worked with an elite engineering team to plan, strategize, and execute intelligent applications.
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Sr Web Developer
Electronic Arts Canada
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — February 2004 (2 years 10 months)
Worked with Electronic Arts Worldwide Studios developing and implementing advanced solutions for internal development of technology and knowledge management. Worked on .NET migration of legacy systems as well as developing extensive use of web services to increase department, team and product organization. Develop asset sharing solutions to increase information awareness globally across dozens of development studios.
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Sr Web Developer
Moderngroove Entertainment
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2001 — May 2001 (4 months)
Worked in the moderngroove on-line programming team, which handled the design and development of moderngroove's on-line properties. Developed in a Windows 2000 environment with InterDev/ASP/VB and using a SQL Server 7 database back-end.
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Sr Web Developer / Programmer
Earthramp Inc.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Developed web based financial/investment tools, managed databases with raw data and participated in the development of business to business products. Worked at storing, parsing and delivering real-time news and stock market data from most of the North American exchanges. Worked primarily in ColdFusion and SQL Server (stored procedures, triggers) for our web based applications in a Windows 2000 environment (Advanced Server with Load Balancing and Clustering).
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Sr Web Developer
Global Interactive & Digital Eyez
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)
June 1999 — October 1999 (5 months)
Managed several gambling / gaming portals. Was in charge of content; creating contests, finding people to write articles, moderated and created discussion forums. Also created and developed on-line casinos. Worked primarily with Perl in a UNIX environment.
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Web Devleoper / Designer
Liquid FX Interactive (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
December 1993 — June 1999 (5 years 7 months)
Personal company started in late 1993 that did contract work for other companies as well as developed own projects. Projects included everything from graphic design for web, print and cd-roms, consulting, network system administration for an ISP, database design, web development, marketing, promotions and on-line research. Travelled to the Virgin Islands and various US cities to consult or aid in the completion of projects.
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Graphic Designer, Web Developer, IT & IS
Spinnaker Publishing
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
January 1995 — February 1996 (1 year 2 months)
Gained detailed knowledge and experience being a part of an Internet Service Provider startup. Was an integral part in the development of a new digital ISP in Gibsons -- setting up T-1 connectivity (a first for Gibsons), DEC Alpha Servers, email, ftp / web accounts for subscribers. Was involved in all aspects of the business - customer service, technical support, onsite installations, hardware and software configuration.
Worked on an 88 page monthly real estate newspaper. Responsible for design and layout of property listings.
