Current
  • Owner at RNA Productions, Ltd.
Past
  • Actionscript Developer at DRAFTFCB
  • Developer at freelance/contractor
  • Developer at SEGA Europe
  • Programmer (Digital Solutions) at Antenna Audio
  • Special Assistant at British Museum
  • Development Engineer at XS New Media
Education
  • City University
  • Middlesex University
  • University of California, Irvine
  • United World College of South East Asia (UWC)
  • SAE
  • United World College of South East Asia (UWC)
Connections
85 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Richard Das’s Summary

Looking to work on projects that leverage my creativity and technical passions. I have an extensive background in user interface design, particularly for touch screen interfaces. My formal training is in audio engineering, and I have a solid understanding of multimedia production techniques from video on the web to audio.

I am a software developer in the broadest sense of the term, from music (it's software!) to graphic art, to programming. Always open to new ideas.

Richard Das’s Specialties:

Touch Screen Interface Design, Interaction Design

Object-Orientated software development (OOP)

AS3, Flex 3, Flash, Actionscript

AppleScript, Quartz Composer, Director

Graphic design, print media, Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS, XHTML, Javascript

Database/CMS design, Information Management, XML, XSLT, server integration


Richard Das’s Experience

  • Owner

    RNA Productions, Ltd.

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2007Present (8 months)

    Working with numerous International clients including: Publicis Dialog, HTW, Draft FCB, LBI/Wheel, Saatchi Interactive, Big Fish Audio, on software development for online and mobile devices, user interface prototyping, print/graphic design, touch screen interfaces, social networking sites, widgets and web design.

  • Actionscript Developer

    DRAFTFCB

    (Computer Software industry)

    20072007 (less than a year)

  • Developer

    freelance/contractor

    (Internet industry)

    September 2006December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

    Working with numerous International clients including: Publicis Dialog, HTW, Draft FCB, LBI/Wheel, Saatchi Interactive, Big Fish Audio, on software development for online and mobile devices, user interface prototyping, print/graphic design, touch screen interfaces, social networking sites, widgets and web design.

  • Developer

    SEGA Europe

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Games industry)

    August 2004September 2006 (2 years 2 months)

    Developer – lead Actionscript programmer, assisted in design and architecture of
    database driven content management system. Developed front-end for CMS, multi-lingual, dynamic data-driven Flash website (www.Sega-Europe.com).

    Skills: Object-Orientated Flash Actionscript 2.0, database/CMS design, XML, XSLT, PHP/mySQL/Java integration.

  • Programmer (Digital Solutions)

    Antenna Audio

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

    July 2003July 2004 (1 year 1 month)

    Programmer – lead programmer developing interactive content for mobile wireless
    devices (including interface, architecture and content). On-site configuration/testing and client-facing role, as well as architecture design and prototyping. Clients included Tate Modern, Royal Institute, Motorola and Intel.

  • Special Assistant

    British Museum

    (Museums and Institutions industry)

    May 2003July 2003 (3 months)

    Special Assistant – contract work for Educational Multimedia Unit developing educational microsites based on Museum artifacts for use in schools.

    Skills: Flash, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

  • Development Engineer

    XS New Media

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

    July 2000September 2001 (1 year 3 months)

    Development Engineer – design/software development, client liaison, team/project management (including budget). Approached development from a functional perspective: how to combine the efforts of the team into a working solution for the client.

    Skills: Flash, X/HTML, Graphic Design, Sound Design, Project/Team Management


Richard Das’s Education

  • City University

    MSc, Music & Information Technology, 20012002

    Thesis: Development of Perceptual Audio Codec evaluation software for
    STMicroelectronics, Singapore.

    Subjects: Programming, Principles of Sound, Acoustics, Synthesis Techniques.

  • Middlesex University

    BA(Hons), Recording Arts, 19981999

    Thesis: “New Methods For Recording, Production and Distribution of Music as Software on the Internet.” 2:1 (Upper Second) with Honours.

    Subjects: Business & Legal Studies, Advanced Industry Applications, Industry Perspectives and Issues, Cultural Perspectives, Digital audio production, Compression technologies, Multimedia design/development.

  • University of California, Irvine

    BSc, Computer Science, Philosophy, 19971998

    Attended UCI for 1.5 years, where I completed the course requirements for a minor in Philosophy and began my journey into computer programming, a solid foundation that serves me to this day.

  • United World College of South East Asia (UWC)

    International Baccalaureate [IB], 19921996

  • SAE

    Diploma, Audio Engineering, 19921994

    Graduated as youngest ever (and since!) at age 15.

  • United World College of South East Asia (UWC)

    GCSE, 19921994


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Richard Das’s Interests:

Cocoa Development, learning Objective-C, Dashcode, Currently learning fourth (speaking) language, Polish

Richard Das’s Groups:

Apple Developer Connection, Adobe Member, active digger (digg.com)

  •    Users London United Kingdom member
  •    Web Standards Design + Development member

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