
Wise man of Flex and Flash
New South Wales, Australia

Wise man of Flex and Flash
New South Wales, Australia
Currently based in Sydney, Australia, Joshua Mostafa is a Senior RIA Developer. He is currently contracting as a hired Flex / Flash gun, and looking to broaden his experience in the rapidly growing RIA space, while striving to achieve a better balance between technical work, his creative pursuits (creative writing, music) and family life.
Software engineering, systems architecture and design, software team leadership, writing guides for developers.
Specialising in Flex, Flash and AIR.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
I'm doing freelance Flex work at the moment - a great change from commuting every day to the city. I'm currently building an enterprise Flex application, targeting Flash Player 10, for a client who shall remain nameless (until the launch).
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — October 2008 (10 months)
Lots of interesting projects at this busy design agency: Flash, Flex, Papervision3D, AIR, communicating with .NET via FluorineFX. Development, estimation, systems analysis & design, mentoring juniors, writing documentation. Clients included Telstra, Cisco, Energy Australia, Cisco.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2006 — 2008 (2 years)
Led a team of Flash developers. Designed and implemented a large-scale ActionScript framework and several high profile touch screen kiosk applications. Clients: Harvey Norman, Westfield, Westpac.
(Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year)
Various projects using Flash and Perl (specifically HTML::Mason).
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Big project: Flash remoting with Java backend. Client: Coca-Cola.
(Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years)
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Graduate Diploma , Creative Writing , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
BA Hons , Drama & English , 1998 — 2001
literature, history, linguistics, archaeology, music.