Mobile Games and Applications - Consultant
Bombay Area, India
- Current
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- Mobile Games and Applications Consultant (Self-employed)
- Manager at IndiMad - India Mobiles and Devices UG
- Past
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- Studio Head, Casual Games at Indiagames Ltd
- Developer and Project Coordinator at Viva Multimedia and Web Solutions
- Education
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- H. R. College
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Mariam Dholkawala’s Summary
Having been in the field of desktop and mobile game development for nearly 7 years, Mariam's experience today has enabled her to pursue her long standing goals of extensive game development and community support. Her core focus has always been the Flash platform and all its supporting middle and backend languages.
She has always enjoyed learning and experimenting with new ideas and pushing a technology's capabilities to the edge. Today Mariam's portfolio includes more than 100 Flash games developed for the desktop and mobiles with 3 award winning games, a strong Community Support background through articles and conferences, and finally managing the Indian Adobe Mobiles and Devices User Group.
Currently Mariam is a Mobile Games and Applications Consultant, and focuses mostly on Flash based initiatives - be it mobiles, desktop, set-top boxes or any other gaming platform. However, prior to getting on to Flash, Macromedia's Director was what had her enamored. So catalogue of Flash games do share some space with very interesting Director games too.
Some of the credits include -
1. Forum Nokia Champion 2008-2009
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2. Adobe India Community Champion
3. Adobe Community Expert - Mobile and Devices
4. Manager of the Indian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group
5. Featured in an article during Macromedia Flash's 10th Anniversary
6. Authored the article "Best Practices for Mobile Game Development"
7. Authored the article "Persistent Data for Flash Lite 2.0 Games"
8. Authored the article "Porting J2ME games to Flash Lite"
9. Authored the article "Ten Tips to enable you to develop better Flash Lite Games"
10. Speaker at the Adobe MAX Conference 2005 in Korea / Hong Kong
11. Speaker at the Adobe MAX Conference 2006 in Las Vegas
12. Speaker at the Adobe MAX Conference 2007 in Chicago
Mariam Dholkawala’s Specialties:
Primarily Flash with AS1/AS2/AS3, Flash Lite, Flash Cast
Focus also on Javascript, PHP, Java, ASP, Coldfusion, Flex, AJAX
Can be partial to Director
Mariam Dholkawala’s Experience
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Mobile Games and Applications Consultant
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
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Manager
IndiMad - India Mobiles and Devices UG
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
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Studio Head, Casual Games
Indiagames Ltd
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Games industry)
January 2002 — October 2007 (5 years 10 months)
Management and development of games for the mobile and PC platform.
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Developer and Project Coordinator
Viva Multimedia and Web Solutions
(Partnership; Computer Games industry)
October 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Mariam Dholkawala’s Education
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H. R. College
BCOM , Commerce & Business Management , 1994 — 1999
Additional Information
Mariam Dholkawala’s Websites:
Mariam Dholkawala’s Interests:
Digital photography, blogging, writing, reading fiction, international travel, trekking, meeting people, learning about new cultures, playing games, learning new languages
Mariam Dholkawala’s Groups:
Mobile Monday
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World Gaming Executives -
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Mobile Telecoms industry group -
Mobile Software Development Group -
Android Developer Group (1,700+ and growing!) -
Freelance Switch -
Mobile application outsourcing -
Adobe Gurus -
Adobe Community Program Leaders -
Flash Game Developers -
Mobile start-ups - 5000+ members and growing! -
Mobile Social Network -
Flash Lite Games -
IGDA Flash SIG
Mariam Dholkawala’s Honors:
1. Winner at the Flash Mobile Contest held by Actionscript.it in 2006 for "Feline Frolic".
2. Winner at the Macromedia Flash Lite Content Contest in 2005 in the best game category for "Cryptic Capers"
3. Winner at the Nokia-Macromedia Flash Hunt Contest in the APAC region in 2005 for "Acorn Mafia"
4. Was selected amongst the Top 20 Flash Lite developers in the world in 2005
Mariam Dholkawala’s Contact Settings
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