Interface Developer
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Owner at RNA Productions, Ltd.
- Past
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- 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
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- 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)
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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
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Owner
RNA Productions, Ltd.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — Present (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.
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Actionscript Developer
DRAFTFCB
(Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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Developer
freelance/contractor
(Internet industry)
September 2006 — December 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.
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Developer
SEGA Europe
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Games industry)
August 2004 — September 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 2003 — July 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 2003 — July 2003 (3 months)
Special Assistant – contract work for Educational Multimedia Unit developing educational microsites based on Museum artifacts for use in schools.
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Development Engineer
XS New Media
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2000 — September 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
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City University
MSc, Music & Information Technology, 2001 — 2002
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, 1998 — 1999
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, 1997 — 1998
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.
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United World College of South East Asia (UWC)
International Baccalaureate [IB], 1992 — 1996
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SAE
Diploma, Audio Engineering, 1992 — 1994
Graduated as youngest ever (and since!) at age 15.
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United World College of South East Asia (UWC)
GCSE, 1992 — 1994
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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)
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Web Standards Design + Development member
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