Flash Developer
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Flash Director at Hello Design
- Flash Consultant and Contractor at stevensacks.net (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Flash Director at BIG Interactive
- Contract Flash Developer at OxBlue Corporation
- Senior Flash Developer at BLITZ
- Contact Flash Consultant at Moxie Interactive
- Senior Flash Contractor at Allman Consulting Group
- Senior Flash Consultant at Dorey Publishing
- Senior Flash Developer at Sidereus Technologies
- Senior Flash Developer at Sidereus Group
- Senior Flash Developer at Roundbox Media
- Education
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- College of Marin
- Jacksonville State University
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Steven Sacks’s Summary
I am an expert level Flash development consultant. My background is in application and website development, including RIAs, experiential websites, training and education, and desktop applications.
I develop Flash applications (both online and off), websites, etc. You name it, I've done it at least once.
If you are a recruiter, please do not ask me to LinkedIn you. I only LinkedIn with people I know and have worked with.
Steven Sacks’s Specialties:
Flash, Actionscript 3/2, OOP, design patterns, architecture, efficient workflows, application development, usability, efficiency, getting stuff done.
Steven Sacks’s Experience
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Flash Director
Hello Design
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (3 months)
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Flash Consultant and Contractor
stevensacks.net (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
June 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)
Flash development: Independent contractor/consultant
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Flash Director
BIG Interactive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Flash Director at BIG Interactive, an online ad agency specializing in Flash microsites.
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Contract Flash Developer
OxBlue Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Construction industry)
April 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 10 months)
Development of OxBlue construction webcam application, including a zoompane component and custom printing solutions. Due to exemplary work and support on original project, hired again to upgrade application to include new modes and functionality, including timelapse videos, slideshows, visual calendar, and emailing photographs.
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Senior Flash Developer
BLITZ
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2006 — April 2007 (11 months)
Lead developer for client and internal projects. Highlights include:
Adobe Product Selector - Featured on Adobe.com and 3rd party resellers' sites. Project required complex and dynamic business logic configurable via XML, as well as localization and skinning.
Stagr.com - Wrote custom t-shirt creator using MVC and remoting via AMFPHP to a Cake backend. Bulk of code written in just six days in time for a trade show in Las Vegas. -
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Moxie Interactive
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — January 2007 (9 months)
Contracted to develop two projects; an award-winning Home Depot Father's Day 2006 site, with a quiz that told you what kind of dad you had and recommended products based on that result, and a CD-ROM based PowerPoint slide presentation creation and playback tool for Cryovac, which was wrapped inside of Director to allow for dynamic creation of PDFs and saved to the hard drive. Project was created with MVC and was XML driven with the ability to add/remove master slides from the collection, single, multi, and group select slides with drag and drop ordering, and both linear and non-linear navigation through a presentation.
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Senior Flash Contractor
Allman Consulting Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)
December 2003 — June 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Originally contracted to save an overdue sales training CD-ROM-based Flash project. Required complete reprogramming and design of navigation shell, classes for managing users and their progress, and creation/modification of hundreds of content sections including synced animation to soundtrack and video, dynamic quiz components, and dynamic certificate printing. Due to outstanding product quality and quick delivery of original CD, was contracted four subsequent times to deliver additional award-winning sales training CDs.
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Senior Flash Consultant
Dorey Publishing
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)
March 2005 — December 2005 (10 months)
Brought on as a consultant to help complete an in-house custom rich internet application managing an enormous amount of complex data for a commercial real estate company for their researchers, agents, customers and sales teams. Project required coding many data management classes, complex XML output and input, routing multiple responses from a single request, dozens of forms each with custom, as well as local and remote storage of user activity, logs, data, and more. Worked with a team of in-house and 3rd party developers.
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Senior Flash Developer
Sidereus Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 5 months)
Senior Programmer and Project Lead for multiple online desktop applications (out-of-the-browser web experience) utilizing Flash and a custom wrapper. Applications developed using MVC and event driven frameworks. Projects include:
* DirecTV/Fox Sports Game Tracker, delivering live scores and sporting news with over 60,000 active users.
* Desktop Weather Platinum, the Weather Channel's premiere desktop application delivering live weather and video.
* Desktop For Media Affiliates, a news station affiliate application delivering live news, video, TV schedule, and weather in a customizable and skinnable application currently in use nationwide by dozens of affiliates and tens of thousands of users.
Other clients included NBC, and ESPN. Technology highlights include ActiveX control from Flash for Windows Media Video and desktop alpha transparency. XML and Web Services based data is served to these applications in real-time. -
Senior Flash Developer
Sidereus Group
(Internet industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year)
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Senior Flash Developer
Roundbox Media
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)
October 2002 — March 2003 (6 months)
Programming and support for a Flash-based online assessment application for McGraw-Hill. Tests created from Flash templates, dynamic content and session tracking managed using XML, J-Generator, and PHP. Detailed tracking of user interaction, and saving of user's current position for return sessions. Programmed Sales Support CD-ROM for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Programmed XML driven Flash HTML Stylesheet parser.
Steven Sacks’s Education
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College of Marin
Certificate of Multimedia 1996 — 1997
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Jacksonville State University
English / Journalism 1994 — 1995
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