Sean Moore

Current

Author / Blogger at O'Reilly & Associates
Volunteer Technical Editor at Manning Publications
Principal, Owner, Flex Developer at Kannopy, Inc.

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Past

Flex & AIR Developer (Contract) at Intridea, Inc
Flex and AIR Consultant and Developer (Contract) at Adobe Systems
Flex Consultant (Contract) at 2Advanced Studios, LLC

Flex Consultant (Contract) at Universal Mind
Contract Flex Developer (UX) at Enablus
Technical Reviewer at Addison Wesley
Volunteer Technical Author at Flash Magazine
Technical Author for Flex Testing at ReviewNet
Flex & AIR Developer (Contract) at NextK12
Contract Flex and AIR Developer and Consultant at Meat Team Internal TV
Senior Flash Developer at techniques.org
Senior Web Developer at LION, Inc.
Computer Programmer at FlightSafety Services

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Education

University of California, San Diego
Pikes Peak Community College

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7 people have recommended Sean

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Sean Moore’s Summary

Sean is a seasoned software developer specializing in the development of RIAs built using technologies such as Flex, AIR and BlazeDS. Sean has been involved with the development of several Flex and AIR applications and has reviewed and provided consultation for countless others. Sean has devoted hundreds of hours to the Flash and Flex community creating reference material such as the ActionScript Cheatsheets, two articles on Flex Best Practices for Adobe, presentations on Flex Best Practices, numerous technical reviews for Flex and AIR books and authored several Flex and AIR related articles.

Accomplishments:
* Guest on the Flex Show podcast (April 2009)
* A+ in Java Programming II course at the University of San Diego
* Flex Best Practices presentations (San Diego Flash Users Group & Orange County Flex Users Group)
* Author / Blogger for O’Reilly’s InsideRIA blog
* Volunteer Technical Author for Flash Magazine: Mate Flex Framework article
* Volunteer Technical Editor for Manning: Adobe AIR in Action
* Highly visible blogger in the Flex and AIR communities
* Authored “Real World” Flex Aptitude Test Questions
* Authored ActionScript Cheat Sheets
* Voted "Most Valuable Employee" for 2006 at techniques.org

Email:
info@seantheflexguy.com

Resume:
http://seantheflashguy.com/SeanMooreResume2009.doc

Sean Moore’s Specialties:

Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flex 4, Adobe Flex 3, Adobe Flex 2, Adobe AIR, ActionScript 3.0, MXML, Papervision3D, SQLite, Flex Builder, Flex SDK, MXMLC, Cairngorm, Mate, Java, OOP, ASDoc, Design Patterns, Technical Authoring, Technical Reviewing

Sean Moore’s Experience

Author / Blogger

O'Reilly & Associates

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Technical authoring for the InsideRIA website. Topics so far have included Flex 4 and also Design Patterns in ActionScript 3.0 / Flex.
Volunteer Technical Editor

Manning Publications

(Publishing industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Provided technical reviews for new Flex and AIR books as a (non-paid) volunteer. Books reviewed to date: AIR In Action and Hello! Flex 3.
Principal, Owner, Flex Developer

Kannopy, Inc.

(Internet industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Duties include the operation and management of all Flex and AIR development projects, interfacing with third party consultants, contractors and designers, Flex and AIR development, ActionScript 3.0 programming and client relationship management.
Flex & AIR Developer (Contract)

Intridea, Inc

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

March 2009 — June 2009 (4 months)

Port existing Present.ly AIR application codebase to Cairngorm framework
Institute best practices throughout entire AIR codebase
Create unit tests for codebase using Flex Unit and set up test runner
Document all code for ASDoc
Create Ant script to generate documentation for codebase
Implement Degrafa for application UI
Integrate Flex transitions for enhanced UX
Flex and AIR Consultant and Developer (Contract)

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

Consultation for Adobe Flex and AIR rich internet application development. MXML and ActionScript 3.0 programming. Authoring for Adobe Flex Developer Center.
Flex Consultant (Contract)

2Advanced Studios, LLC

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)

Project management. Consultation on Flex 3.0 development. ActionScript 3.0 and MXML programming. Wireframe creation and user experience design.
Flex Consultant (Contract)

Universal Mind

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

Flex 3.0 consultation and development. MXML and ActionScript 3.0 programming. Implement views for Cairngorm based applications.
Contract Flex Developer (UX)

Enablus

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)

Flex User Experience (UX) design and development. MXML and ActionScript 3.0 programming for the view layer of a Cairngorm based RIA. Work directly with end client to broker, prioritize and satisfy view related change requests.
Technical Reviewer

Addison Wesley

(Public Company; Publishing industry)

August 2008 — August 2008 (1 month)

Provided technical review, input and endorsement quote for Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0 by Juan Sanchez and Andy McIntosh.
Volunteer Technical Author

Flash Magazine

(Internet industry)

June 2008 — July 2008 (2 months)

Technical authoring for Mate Flex Framework article. Proposed ideas for articles including Mate Flex Framework article idea. Communicate with authors of Mate for permission to author Mate article. Integrate review comments from authors of Mate (ASFusion).
Technical Author for Flex Testing

ReviewNet

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — March 2008 (5 months)

Provide real world Flex testing questions for job placement candidates. Topics covered include ActionScript 3.0, MXML, Flex Components, Design Patterns and more.
Flex & AIR Developer (Contract)

NextK12

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)

October 2007 — March 2008 (6 months)

Tasks include Flex Development, AIR Development, Project Management, and ActionScript 3.0 programming. I also did the MXML coding for the view layer of this Cairngorm based AIR application.
Contract Flex and AIR Developer and Consultant

Meat Team Internal TV

(Internet industry)

October 2007 — January 2008 (4 months)

Consultation and programming for an existing AIR, Flex Builder 3.0 based kiosk. Refine and prioritize change requests and provide estimate for work. The kiosk also uses Flash Media Server. Upgraded application from Flex Builder Beta 3 Milestone 1 to Flex Builder Beta 3 Milestone 3. This also involved updating the application from Adobe AIR Beta 1 to Adobe AIR Beta 2.
Senior Flash Developer

techniques.org

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

April 2003 — June 2007 (4 years 3 months)

Extensive ActionScript 1.0 and ActionScript 2.0 programming for techniques web presence and flagship eLearning application. SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 development. Create help and example files for now defunct product eSCORTE for ActionScript. Ported eSCORTE from ActionScript 1.0 to class based ActionScript 2.0. Prepare video for smooth playback in the FLV format. Programmed 7 highly interactive, reusable, dynamically driven learning interactions. Managed the technical production and programming for over 14 eLearning courseware applications.
Senior Web Developer

LION, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LINN; Internet industry)

March 1999 — April 2003 (4 years 2 months)
Computer Programmer

FlightSafety Services

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; E-Learning industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Sean Moore’s Education

University of California, San Diego

Computer Science 2009 — 2009

I received an A+ in this class.

Activities and Societies:

Java Programming II
Pikes Peak Community College

Multimedia / Internet 1997 — 1998

Activities and Societies:

Multimedia Computer Lab Assistant

Additional Information

Sean Moore’s Websites:

Sean Moore’s Interests:

Adobe Flex 3, Adobe Flex 2, Adobe AIR, Adobe Integrated Runtime, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe Thermo, Bodyboarding, Culinary Arts, Dubstep, Brain Computer Interface, Surface Computing, Technological Singularity