Kyle Ward

Current

• Lead Developer at D6 Technology

Past

• Lead Developer at Urbian
• Senior Flash Developer at Hello Computer
• Web Developer at Ogilvy Interactive

• GrandWest Intranet Webmaster at Sun International

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Education

• Adobe - Certified Flash Professional 8
• Ixopo High School

Recommendations

5 recommendations

Connections

39 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Kyle Ward’s Summary

Adobe Flex – [2009 to date]
Adobe AIR- [2009 to date]

Flash Developer – [2001 to date]
-AS 3
-RobotLegs / Pure MVC
-Papervision 3D

-My coding is Object Orientated as its easy to maintain and extend. I find i use the MVC design pattern 95% of the time as it allows me to have the Logic [Model], Look/Display/Tween…[View] and User Input [Controller] separated.

-Designers are unfortunately a reality in this world and all projects have ‘em! I found it best to accommodate them, rather then them me.

-I have a library of classes that i reuse, and am continuously developing and extending. I found it saves me huge amounts of time and dramatically improves my code.

-My coding mantra is to make all code as simple and open ended as possible, thereby leaving lots of room for projects to be extended or amended.

UML – [2006 to date]
-I do my modeling in Enterpise Architect. It allows for total UML control as well as forward and backward code engineering, this program is the business.

I rarely create any diagrams other than User Cases, Sequences and Packages and Classes.

Design Patterns – [2006 to date]
- I use MVC [Model/View/Controller] non-stop in my AS classes, just because it seems to fit so well with the nature of Flash. I also use Singleton where applicable, its a great pattern to base my data classes on.

SVN – [2006 to date]
-I have used Tortoise SVN and am familar with its processes.

PHP – [2001 to date]
-Most of the PHP i do these days is giving Flash server side power [via Flash Remoting]. So its all Classes and OOP.

MySql Administration – [2001 to date]
X/HTML
CSS
Adobe Photoshop
Javascript

Kyle Ward’s Specialties:

AS3,Flex

Kyle Ward’s Experience

• Lead Developer

  D6 Technology

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2010 — Present (7 months)

• Lead Developer

  Urbian

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2009 — May 2010 (7 months)

• Senior Flash Developer

  Hello Computer

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2006 — January 2010 (3 years 4 months)

  ActionScripting
  Development of Technical Spec and Project Planning
  Management of Junior Staff
  Technical Research

• Web Developer

  Ogilvy Interactive

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 9 months)

  Development and maintenance of microsites, screensavers, games
  
  Clients: VW, Audi, Melrose, Hansa, Old Mutual.

• GrandWest Intranet Webmaster

  Sun International

  (Public Company; Gambling & Casinos industry)

  May 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  Creation, Development and maintenance of the GrandWest Intranet.
  A dynamic site with a Flash Front-end and PHP backend.

Kyle Ward’s Education

• Adobe - Certified Flash Professional 8

  Certified Flash Professional 8 , Flash Professional , 2007 — 2007

  ID #ADB168013

• Ixopo High School

  Matric , Math, Science, Accounting , 1987 — 1992

Additional Information

Kyle Ward’s Websites:

• My Blog

Kyle Ward’s Groups:

•    Adobe Flex Developers
•    Adobe AIR Developers
•    Robotlegs Developers

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