Daniel Love

Current

Director of Technology/Partner at Logic Bureau

Past

Creative Developer at AKQA
Creative Developer at John Brown
Developer at Fingal Creative Communications

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Daniel Love’s Summary

Having completed an industry CIW certification, I started to work as a contract web designer and developer.
During this time I took on small to medium projects for local businesses, bands, and artists.
Another use of this time was creating a bundle of free applications, of which the most successful was an ad-supported match organizer, news aggregator and a countdown clock for the 2006 World Cup.
The application was used in over 54 different countries around the world and provided news, goal alerts, match reminders, calendars all within a desktop RIA.
Originally created as a native application, predated the Adobe AIR technology by 2 years, while using the same concepts and paradigms.

After six months of contract work, I started at Fingal Creative Communications as a developer. After seven months the company was purchased by John Brown Media to strengthen their digital offering.
Along with new clients and requirements, there were opportunities to learn new technologies such as AJAX.
I jumped at the chance and was quickly one of the senior developers of an AJAX based project for the BBC.
During my time at John Brown I was mentored by industry professionals. They taught me the art of mitigating risks, best practices, and the collaborative cycle.
Team and knowledge sharing talks presentations allowed myself to speak publicly about my passions, and share my knowledge with other members in the team, something that I continue to provide today for clients.

Soon I was head hunted for a position at AKQA, to work as a Creative Developer.
Pushed to learn new technologies, innovate and become more managerial, I set myself challenges to help accomplish what was expected of me.
From studing the Prince2 certification to personal projects involving Silverlight, & Live Mesh. In order to keep up with the industry, innovation is key, therefore I have experimented with Wii control systems, multi-touch interfaces, Google Android applications and cloud computing.

Daniel Love’s Specialties:

Flash, AIR, Flex, ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Silverlight, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Cocoa, C++, OpenGL, DirectX.

Daniel Love’s Experience

Director of Technology/Partner

Logic Bureau

(Online Media industry)

April 2009 — Present (4 months)

Duties include web site/micro site builds, application development, integrating and managing the intermediary 3rd party services, and knowledge sharing presentations.

Assisting companies with the project development cycle, through pitch preparations, wireframes, user experience, and prototypes, to development, design and post launch services.
Researching new technologies for the collaborative cycle within agencies.

Assisting agencies with business process, best practices, mitigating risks and salvaging projects.
Training and education on coding, design and management best practices, process and collaboration throughout the agency using the collaborative cycle.
Creative Developer

AKQA

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

February 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Duties include web site/micro site builds, application development, change requests, integrating and managing the intermediary 3rd party services, creation of hardware installations, and knowledge sharing presentations.
Research into new innovative technologies such as Google Android, Cocoa (Mac/iPhone applications), multi-touch interfaces, and face/object recognition.
Managing and assisting in all aspects of projects.
Knowledge sharing and company wide presentations to assist inter-department collaboration and process.

Some of the projects and clients I have been involved in during my time at AKQA have been;
Ferrari World - www.ferrari.com
Fiat - www.fiat.co.uk
Nike Most Wanted - www.nikefootball.com
Nike+ - www.nike.com/nikeplus
Creative Developer

John Brown

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

May 2007 — February 2008 (10 months)

Duties include web site/micro site design & development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and content management system implementation (PHP, SQL).

ActionScript 3 development of games, web sites and Adobe AIR applications.
ActionScript 2 development of games and banner adverts

Created a desktop application prototype for a Honda F1 pitch using a combination of C++ and Flash.

Designed and implemented a bespoke email management and creation system, as well as a bespoke inline AJAX content management system.

Organizing meetings, helping with user experience, and brainstorming were also part of my duties while creating the RedBulletin F1 web site. Where I was mentored by the current freelance team lead, an industry professional, to take over his role as the Flash team lead.

Some of the projects and clients I was involved in during my time at John Brown were;
Rolls-Royce Motorcars - www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com
Honda F1 - www.hondaracingf1.com
Sunseeker
RedBull RedBulletin F1
BBC - www.formulaforsuccess.tv
Developer

Fingal Creative Communications

(Online Media industry)

November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)

Duties include HTML, CSS and PHP web site design, development and implementation.

Some of the projects and clients I have been involved in during my time at Fingal have been;
Silverstone Racing Circuit
JCB Diesel Max
British Touring Cars
Amber Lounge