Joshua Galvin

Past

• Web Engineer at Flagship Studios
• Web Engineer at Ping0
• Laptop Technician at Bell Industries

• Technical Director at Hellgate Guru

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Education

• ECPI College of Technology
• University of Pittsburgh

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Company
• My Company
• Website I Work on

Joshua Galvin’s Summary

Web Application and Content Management System development on a number of disparate tasks. A focus on technologies which connect disparate systems. Interested in bridging technologies that intermingle game technology and data with the Web.

Projects..

• Converted a mediawiki installation to a functional CMS with an AJAX driven dynamic menu - PHP, Javascript

• Helped develop a CSR tool which interfaced directly with both the game it was servicing and the game's database. - C#, Javascript

• Developed a web chat feature which enabled CSRs to talk to players ingame from a web page. - C#, Javascript

• Maintained four websites with frequent updated features. - Drupal, PHP, Flash
( http://www.mythos.com , http://www.flagshipstudios.com , http://www.hellgatelondon.com , http://www.ping-0.com )

• Developed website themes from a Photoshop PSD. - Drupal, PHP, Flash

• Integration work between front end servers and backend via SOAP and web services - Drupal, PHP, Silverlight, Flash

• Integration work between vBulletin, Drupal, and Game Accounts - Drupal, Vbulletin, PHP

Joshua Galvin’s Specialties:

Flash, Silverlight, Agile Development, C#, ASP.NET, Python, PHP, Drupal, HTML, JS

Joshua Galvin’s Experience

• Web Engineer

  Flagship Studios

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

  August 2007 — July 2008 (1 year)

  Web and Application development, including front end development( http://www.mythos.com ) on four websites, integration work which ties forums with the websites and game accounts, and backend development of a CSR tool. A recent focus on developing and exploring new technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and game integration with the web.

• Web Engineer

  Ping0

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

  August 2007 — July 2008 (1 year)

• Laptop Technician

  Bell Industries

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — July 2007 (1 year)

  Serviced laptop computers for the Henrico County school district.

• Technical Director

  Hellgate Guru

  (Computer Games industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years)

  Worked on a variety of tasks implementing and maintaining technologies for the Hellgateguru.com website. Developed a new technology for using a Wiki as a CMS with a dynamically built menu based on categories. A focus was put on forum integration and development with vBulletin.

Joshua Galvin’s Education

• ECPI College of Technology

  Network Security 2005 — 2007

• University of Pittsburgh

  Computer Science 2004 — 2005

Additional Information

Joshua Galvin’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company
• Website I Work on

Joshua Galvin’s Interests:

management, new technologies, web integration, web games,

Joshua Galvin’s Groups:

•    Video Game Professionals

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