Ryan Toddryantodd@gmail.com+1-424-262-1331

Résumé

Last modified Sunday, June 26, 2011 6:48:43 PM

Education
M.S. in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Thesis project: Mobius Engine hypermedia engine. 06/97.
B.S. in Scince, Technology, and Culture with honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Senior thesis: representation of AIDS in avant-garde media. 06/95.
B.S. in History, Technology, and Society with honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Senior thesis: gender inequity in engineering at Georgia Tech. 03/95.
Employment
Team Lead, Flash Streaming Video Services and Player Development. Stickam Worldwide. 05/11 - present. Responsible for architecture, development, and maintainence of the Flash video streaming services and the players that serve content to the end users, implemented using Adobe FMS server and Adobe Flash Player technologies, with a focus on streaming video apps. Participate in product and feature development for additions to the current suite of apps.
Senior Flash Developer. AVC/Stickam Worldwide. 02/09 - 04/11. Client-side flash application development for StreamAPI.com and Stickam.com. Responsible for the Illustrator-like custom chat player editor for StreamAPI which allows the user to create their own customized video chat player layout, and more recently, the p2p video chat/game at stickam.com/shuffle.do. Also responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining client-side video chat players.
Senior Engineer. VMware, Inc. 07/06 - 02/09. Core front-end application development for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure WebAccess client. Javascript and Flex application development. Also led small prototyping efforts in Flex to demonstrate a simple visual workflow editor, and to create a fully localizable application.
Senior Developer. AvenueA-Razorfish. 11/05 - 06/06. Client-side Flash application and process development and maintenance for Mercedes-AMG.com.
Senior Developer. Studiocom, Inc. 05/04 - 05/05. Flash/Director online game development. Responsibilities include concepting, direction, and development of games and computational media.
Multimedia Developer. Patavisions, Inc. 03/03 - 05/04. Flash/Director software and web development, including e-learning and games for Home Depot and Minute Maid in conjunction with Macquarium Intelligent Communications. Also, teacher planning software for Pearson Learning.
Media/Technical Director. IBM E-business Innovation Services. 07/02 – 05/03, 07/99 – 07/01. Flash and Director game and application development.
Multimedia Developer. Faucett New Media. 09/01 - 02/02. Flash design, programming, and implementation, including the use of dynamic content in Flash interfaces.
Lingo and Web Programmer/Designer. Melia Design Group. 03/99 - 07/99. Projects for Storehouse Furniture, Kayhan International, KI.com, and more.
Lingo and Web Programmer. CEISMC at Georgia Tech. 11/98 - 12/98. Educational interactive application development.
Visual Consultant/Web Designer. VideOpticon Video Art Festival at Georgia Tech. 09/95 - 06/97. Print media and web design. (Graduate Research Assistantship)
Freelance & Other
For Steele+. 09/05-11/05. Development from ground-up of steeleplus.com, a Flash application identity site featuring a robust portfolio browser with support for online video and photography case studies and support for user state saving - particularly for their “favorites.” Custom modification of back-end phpBB bulletin board system complemented a Flash front-end community feature that allowed participants to interact and communicate from within the Flash interface.
For Washington Redskins in conjunction with BeyondZ. 06/05-10/05. Development of Flash application and xml schema for the Washington Redskins Ultimate Fan Experience. Built specifically for Windows Media Center, this application also interfaced with custom .Net code locally and online Redskins content to provide the user with an augmented television experience. Special content and the ability to schedule game recording also enabled from within the application.
For Halcyon Worlds. 08/05. Development of an easily modified yet full-featured windowing system for a Flash online community experience site.
For User Insight. 03/04-04/05. Development of smart web prototypes utilizing javascript to emulate user database transactions.
With Faucett New Media. 02/02 - 05/02. Build out of Flash site with dynamic content for the Atlantic Station real estate project.
With Iconologic. 05/02. Build out of Director kiosk for the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame, with SQL database backend.
Pastiche Magazine. 12/01 - 12/04. www.pasticheonline.net: Co-curator, programmer, designer, writer of online local art magazine in Atlanta, GA.
Ink Nail Polish. 03/98 - 12/98. www.inkit.com: Responsible for graphic design and web interface design and creation of the site for a new nail polish line, including streaming audio and Director programming. Responsible for some audio content.
Teaching & Educational
Adjunct Faculty, Atlanta College of Art. 09/97 - 12/99. Video Production, Multimedia, Internet Design.
Facilitator and Instructor. Wesley Center for New Media Center at Georgia Tech. 06/96 - 09/98. Macromedia Director I & II, Multimedia Production Workshop.
Lingo Programmer and Interface Designer. CEISMC at Georgia Tech. 01/97 - 11/97. Educational games created for the Irasshai project.
CGI/Database Programmer. Interactive Media Technology Center at Georgia Tech. 03/96 - 06/96. Work completed for the web site for the Carlos Museum at Emory. (Graduate Research Assistantship)
Awards
Poster Design Award for 1999-2000 season of DramaTech, for the production of Electricity, We Shall Be Monsters. (also participated in production as live video mixer). Received in 2000.
Masters Thesis Paper accepted to the 1997 Computers and Writing Conference in Brighton, England. Received in 1997.