Guy Watson

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• Freelance Flash, Flex & Actionscript Guru at FlashGuru Consulting

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• My Portfolio
• Twitter

Guy Watson’s Summary

I have been working with Flash for over 10 years, in that time i have made a name for myself in the industry and gained alot of experience in all aspects of Flash Design & Development and its surrounding technologies. I have won various awards for my work, presented at various Flash conferences around the world and contributed numerous articles to industry publications (magazines and books) and popular industry websites. I am also an Adobe Community Expert.

I now work from my office where i have everything i need to make the magic happen. I keep in touch with my clients via Telephone, Skype, Instant Messenger and Adobe Connect.

Nowadays i can be found burning the midnight oil working on fun and exciting websites and applications for new media agencies in the UK, Europe and the U.S.

I make brand experiences, rich internet applications, games, portfolio's, video streaming applications, widgets and much more.... I write clean, optimized code. I experiment, i play, i learn, i share.

Guy Watson’s Specialties:

Flash 4/5/MX/MX2004/8, MXML, Actionscript 1/2/3, JSFL, Flash Lite 1/2, Flex 1/1.5/2/3, Flash Remoting, PHP, MySQL, XML, CSS 1/2, (X)HTML, JavaScript, MDM Zinc 1/2/2.5, Flash Video, PaperVision 3D.

Guy Watson’s Experience

• Freelance Flash, Flex & Actionscript Guru

  FlashGuru Consulting

  (Internet industry)

  April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)

  Day to day runnings of the company, client liason and marketing aswell as primarily being a Flash/Flex programmer for new media agencies and direct clients. Clients include Adobe, Barclays, Cancer Research, Cambridge University, Chewits, Coca Cola, Comic Relief, Egg.com, Endemol, Faceparty, GTECH, LG, MTV Europe, NTL Broadband, Red Bull, Sky, Sony Europe, Tesco and Toyota Europe.

Additional Information

Guy Watson’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• Twitter

Guy Watson’s Interests:

Internet Applications, Games, PaperVision3D, Interactive Design, User Interface Design, Motion Graphics, Viral Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Object Oriented Programming, Football, Music, Movies, Travelling, Marine Fish.

Guy Watson’s Groups:

Adobe Community Expert, Flash Community

•    Interaction Design Association
•    UK Flash Users Group
•    Consultants Network
•    OSFlash
•    Papervision3D
•    Actionscript Group
•    Technology Outsourcing– Professionals/ Software Developers/ Freelancers/ Programmers/ Entrepreneurs
•    Flex Experts
•    Flash Developers Group
•    Vintage Flash User Group
•    Adobe Flex Developers
•    Adobe AIR Developers
•    PureMVC Developers
•    Adobe Flash Media Server Developers
•    Adobe Software Users
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    FWA
•    Adobe Flash Platform Developers
•    FDT
•    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
•    Actionscript 3 / Flex / Flash Media Server - developers
•    Adobe Gurus
•    Flash Developers & Designers
•    R/GA
•    Flash Coders
•    Adobe Flash Group
•    Flash Game Developers
•    Papervision
•    Actionscript
•    Flash Freelancers
•    Adobe Flash Developers
•    Actionscript Contractors
•    Adobe Flash Catalyst Group
•    .DIGITAL .EXCHANGE
•    Global Freelancers
•    Digital Gurus London - The Community for Digital Media Folk
•    Adobe Flash Platform Leaders & Architects
•    Flash, Actionscript and Flex Specialists
•    Oldschool Flashaholics

Guy Watson’s Honors:

Flashkit Site of the week, Favourite Website Award, Linkdup Favourite, Flash Film Festival Rubber Arrow for Navigation, Channel 4 Emma Award for Technical Excellence.

Also author of numerous articles for Macromedia Devnet, Internet.com, Devx and various industry magazines such as .net mag , Create Online, MX Developers Journal.

Regularly present technical sessions at industry events worldwide such as FlashForward, webDU, FITC, Spark Europe, London MMUG, MediaElements.

Moderator for various community forums including Flashkit and have also judged various prestigious industry awards, such as Flash Film Festival and the Favourite Website Award.

I am also listed in the About Flash section of Macromedia Flash 8 Authoring Tool under the Special Thanks heading, it takes a while to come up.

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