Johan Lopes

Current

Technical Director/Owner at Swiff
Principal Consultant/Owner at Cream Interactive Limited

Past

RIA Consultant at Adobe Consulting Europe
Technical Director at Foreign
FlashCast/Flash Lite Consultant at ITmaskinen

Technical Director at Fantasy Interactive
Senior Flash Consultant at AKQA
Senior Flash Consultant at Random Media
Senior Flash Consultant/RIA Developer at WAI
Senior Flash Consultant at Ogilvy Interactive UK
E-learning / CBT Consultant at Afiniti UK
Senior Flash Developer at MPA Fingal
Web Application Developer at Afiniti, Brick Lane UK
Freelance IT Journalist at IDG Publications
Freelance Web Developer at Middlesex University Wireless IT Research Centre, UK
Freelance Multimedia Developer and Disc Editor at Digit, IDG Communications UK
Web/Multimedia developer at Interface New Media
Junior Web Developer at Reed Computing Contracts

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Education

Middlesex University
Capable Communications, Sweden
Pacific Union College, USA

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Johan Lopes’s Summary

All-round Internet Application developer with strong technical background as well as very keen eye for design.

Proven track-record from working within a number of commercial new media design agencies in the UK, as well as experience from the publishing industry.

Johan Lopes’s Specialties:

Adobe Technology Platform, Facebook Platform, Interactive and Emerging Technologies

Johan Lopes’s Experience

Technical Director/Owner

Swiff

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Swiff is an interactive production shop with office in central Stockholm, delivering cutting-edge Internet campaigns; Adobe Flash/Flex micro-sites; RIA development; Facebook application development and consultancy.
Principal Consultant/Owner

Cream Interactive Limited

(Internet industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Consulting, evangelizing, prototyping and hands-on development of Rich Internet Applications solutions using the Adobe Technology Platform and emerging technologies.
RIA Consultant

Adobe Consulting Europe

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — November 2007 (7 months)

Consulting and hands-on development of RIA (Rich Internet Applications) solutions using Adobe Flex for Blue Chip clients in the UK.
Technical Director

Foreign

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)

Working as the technology arm for an ad agency. Tasks included leading and supporting a team of creative technologists delivering brand development and campaign sites for major brands including Adidas, Stella McCartney, H&M, Kosta Boda and others.
FlashCast/Flash Lite Consultant

ITmaskinen

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)

FlashCast/Flash Lite consultancy work prototyping FlashCast channels for a Swedish-based telecoms company.
Technical Director

Fantasy Interactive

(Internet industry)

February 2006 — August 2006 (7 months)

1. Leading a team of Application and Interactive developers while working on two cutting-edge Rich Internet Applications for a major American blue-chip/fortune 500 company.
2. One of the projects was developed in ActionScript 2.0 for Flash player 8 and the other in ActionScript 3/Flex 2 Flash player 9 (during Alpha, Beta and then Release Candidate).
3. Team leading a multi-national team (Sweden/USA) while working on these two successful projects.
4. Introduced agile working practices and methodologies such as SCRUM and XP (Extreme Programming) to the organization.
5. Also took part in Adobe Beta testing of Flex/Flash Technology.
6. Other tasks included acting as project manager; client liaison and daily team support.
7. Also supported business development managers and PR department on various projects.
Senior Flash Consultant

AKQA

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

December 2005 — January 2006 (2 months)

Senior Flash developer working on Unilever/"Rexona Fans" application. Worked along-side Creative Directors, Account Managers and Software Engineers. Tasks included gathering requirements, writing functional/non-functional specifications and building a prototype in Flash.
Senior Flash Consultant

Random Media

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

October 2005 — November 2005 (2 months)

Senior Flash developer working on the british pop star Robbie Williams' newly launched website (http://www.robbiewilliams.com). Worked along-side Design Directors, Account Managers and other Senior Flash Developers and Technical Directors. Tasks included re-writing/re-organizing a very comprehensive and large code library using Design Patterns, building prototypes and writing documentations using UML.
Senior Flash Consultant/RIA Developer

WAI

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

May 2005 — September 2005 (5 months)

On-going consultancy and development of Flash applications using AS2, Flash Remoting with .NET and design patterns.
Senior Flash Consultant

Ogilvy Interactive UK

(Internet industry)

February 2005 — April 2005 (3 months)

Contract working for one of the top marketing and advertising agencies along-side Flash designers and Art directors developing Flash/XML-driven multi-lingual Microsite for American Express.
E-learning / CBT Consultant

Afiniti UK

(Internet industry)

March 2004 — February 2005 (1 year )

On-going consultancy and development of training CD-Roms / CBT for Afiniti on behalf of Network Rail transition projects using Macromedia Authorware and Flash MX.
Senior Flash Developer

MPA Fingal

(Internet industry)

May 2004 — October 2004 (6 months)

Sole developer working on Intranet / Internet Flash / XML applications including a multilingual (6 languages) Flash desktop application for HondaF1.com. Other tasks include setting up Red Hat Linux web development environment, leading junior developers as well as working along-side a Creative director.
Web Application Developer

Afiniti, Brick Lane UK

(Internet industry)

May 2003 — February 2004 (10 months)

Working for a communications/IT Consultancy firm in London; involved in a number of Intranet/Internet and e-learning projects for major blue-chip companies (including Network Rail, Bwspeakers etc). Developing solutions using Coldfusion MX/JRun J2EE, Fusebox 3, Mach ii, Flash MX / ActionScript, SQL server 2000 and Macromedia Authorware.
Freelance IT Journalist

IDG Publications

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years )

Created tutorials and wrote articles for MacWorld UK and its sister magazine Digit UK; on most products used in the multimedia and Internet field
(Macromedia Director/Lingo, Fireworks, Dreamweaver/UltraDev, Flash/ActionScript, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, LiveMotion, GoLive) BBedit, Macromedia (ColdFusion,Freehand, Flash) etc. I have followed the development of these key products early on.
Freelance Web Developer

Middlesex University Wireless IT Research Centre, UK

(Internet industry)

July 2002 — August 2002 (2 months)

Designed and developed a database driven Web site using JSP on Apache Tomcat Servlet Engine,
Macromedia UltraDev/MX and MySQL back-end for the Wireless IT Research Centre. Also trained PhD students and staff members on how to update the site using Dreamweaver templates.
Freelance Multimedia Developer and Disc Editor

Digit, IDG Communications UK

(Internet industry)

April 2001 — September 2001 (6 months)
Web/Multimedia developer

Interface New Media

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 1998 — April 2001 (2 years 9 months)

Worked with Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Flash and Director, XML, hand coded HTML/ DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VbScript, Jscript and was exposed to Web development packages such as Allaire ColdFusion and Microsoft database suites (Access, SQL Server7/2000) building Content Management Systems (CMS) from the ground up, while working on a number of Web and CD-Rom projects.
Junior Web Developer

Reed Computing Contracts

(Internet industry)

November 1997 — February 1998 (4 months)

Contract developing client-side solutions using JavaScript

Johan Lopes’s Education

Middlesex University

MSc , Computer Science/Interactive Multimedia , 2001 — 2003

Masters degree (awarded 2:1/MERIT) covering Multimedia Applets, JAVA applications, OOA/D with UML, Multimedia Authoring with Director/Lingo, Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI). Submitted a thesis entitled “Targeting multiple wireless devices”, investigating development of a JAVA-XML-based lightweight framework to aid in the delivery of Web Services targeted to multiple wireless devices (mobile phones, PDAs, Web browsers).
Voted class representative; Advised on the development of the MSc Curriculum.

Activities and Societies:

• Former member of the Middlesex University Wireless IT Research Centre
• Current Member of British Computing Society
Capable Communications, Sweden

HND , Networking/WIN 95/NT, HTML, Lingo/Director, Photoshop, Java Applets and JavaScript , January 1997 — September 1997

Technical programme covering hardware, software and networking/WIN 95/NT, HTML, Lingo/Director, Photoshop, Illustrator, Java Applets and JavaScript.
Pacific Union College, USA

BA , Communication, Journalism , 1993

Attended a communications degree in San Francisco California.