Kirk Ballou

Current

Chief Executive Officer at Flash Widgets, L.L.C.

Past

Principal Engineer / Lead Architect at Teleca
Senior Flash Engineer at ePrize
Senior Flash Developer at Verizon

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Education

Texas State Technical College

Recommended

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237 connections

Industry

Wireless

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Kirk Ballou’s Summary

I have 9 years of industry experience developing RIA (Rich Internet Applications) for Adobe, Verizon, Toshiba, and HP.

The most exciting thing about this field is the chance to innovate with emerging technologies.

To connect with me through Linkedin use this email: insomz@gmail.com

Kirk Ballou’s Specialties:

Mobile application and game development.

Kirk Ballou’s Experience

Chief Executive Officer

Flash Widgets, L.L.C.

(Privately Held; Wireless industry)

December 2005 — Present (4 years )

We develop custom mobile solutions and products for the largest handset makers and carriers in the world. Our primary business is Adobe Flash Lite development.

We have a passion for all things mobile and we pour this love for what we do into our work. Our mission is to provide our clients with products and services that obtain unsurpassed engaging mobile user experiences.
Principal Engineer / Lead Architect

Teleca

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 8 months)

I create the high level architecture for mobile devices as well as team management of resources on Adobe, and Motorola projects. I am currently developing Flash Lite UI architecture for one of the largest handset makers in the world.
Senior Flash Engineer

ePrize

(Wireless industry)

January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)

I developed promotional games for the web and mobile devices. I created two new product offerings for ePrize. Mobile WAP sites and a series of custom mobile games in Flash Lite.

The Mobile WAP offering was an instant success with adoption from forward thinking clients and generating an immediate revenue increase for ePrize.
Senior Flash Developer

Verizon

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 8 months)

My role as the lead architect of Verizon.com was to integrate dynamic flash components with a CMS backend. I also developed rapid prototypes for FiOS TV and VerizonONE mobile device which are both now in production.

My rapid prototypes were used for demonstrations, a guideline to set top box C# developers, as well as for usability testing.