Rob Sheely

• Self-motivated and dedicated to highest quality of execution
• Open to being challenged by Creative Directors, Clients and other team members
• Passionate about Flash development and interactive design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to perform code reviews and manage development teams
• Team leadership and cross-functional collaboration experience
• Value knowledge sharing and can actively mentor team members

Client: Lightbox Network

Role: Lead Flex Developer

Technologies:

• Flex
• PHP
• MySQL
• AMFPHP
• BlazeDS
• ImageMagick

Need:

Lightbox Network is an industry leader for professional digital photography workflow, with clients such as NBC Universal, New York Daily News, MillerCoors, Getty Images, Hallmark Channel, Time, and Nickelodeon. They needed a web-based application to allow professional photographers and editors to collaborate remotely.

Summary:

The Live Media Desk application (see overview video) enables real-time collaboration of photo shoots between photographers and editors. As photographers upload images, they become immediately available to editors working remotely to filter, adjust, rank, edit metadata, and forward images. With Live Media Desk, images can go from a photographer’s camera at an event to the desk of an editor, then published to a public web site within minutes.

I was the lead Flex architect and developer for this multi-year project, The biggest challenge was to make the web-based program perform like a desktop application.

To accomplish this, I designed and implemented the following strategies:

• Image and data caching to minimize server round trips
• Priority-based request queuing to manage all HTTP/HTTPS calls, including images and AMFPHP function calls
• Heuristic-based image preloading to anticipate user needs and produce a seamless user experience
• Real-time image filtering in the Flash run-time to match server-side image filtering done with ImageMagick
• Breaking the application into modules with run-time configuration and dependency management
• Real-time updating system using custom messaging delivered through BlazeDS connecting to PHP through STOMP, JMS and ActiveMQ

Client: Quarterhouse Software

Role: FlexDeveloper

Technologies: Flex, Mate

Need:

Quarterhouse Software is a successful provider of custom software for the printing profession. They wanted to expand their existing offerings to include a web-based book creation tool.

Summary

For this project, I worked with an in-house designer and to create a new book design tool featuring a Flex-based GUI connecting to a .Net back end, using the following strategies:

• Mate open-source inversion-of-control framework library
• Custom Flex components and item renderers
• XML-serialization of value object classes
• Image caching

Client: Designo

Roles: Project Developer

Technology: Flash

Summary:

A boutique print and web design firm wanted a small Flash game to make their website stickier. I took the client’s existing logo, converted it into a space ship and allowed the user to play a fun game.

Client: Exabyte

Roles: Project Manager, Developer

Technology: Flash

Summary:

An interactive demo showing the benefits of VXA tape technology.

Client: IBM

Role: Developer

Technology: Director

Summary:

As part of a tie-in campaign with Nintendo, IBM wanted to entice prospective customers to their matching web site. Working as part of a team with Think New Ideas, I programmed an online game featuring Nintendo’s Mario character.

Client: MGM Studios

Role: Developer

Technology: Director/Shockwave

Summary:

I worked with the Integer Group on this original game created for the 20th anniversary of the movie. In addition to doing all the coding, I consulted on the design and structure of the game.