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GARETH MURFIN. REMOTE WORKING

FREELANCE ANDROID DEVELOPER
Gareth Murfin – Résumé/Curriculum Vitae

Personal Profile

I am a highly skilled remote developer with over ten years of mobile development experience. I
have been coding Java for almost twenty years (as well as J2ME for 10 & Android for 6). Coding is
not just my job, but also my passion - I write awesome games and apps that push the limits of
modern devices. I have been active in this field almost all of my life and it has always been my
dream to be a remote freelance developer. I am always looking for awesome remote Android
contracts to work on.

Accolades & Achievements

• Finalist in Android Developer Competition (ADC2) in 2010 with 'Sonorox'

• Winner of Young Software Engineer of the year award 2002
• Best Software Engineering final year project award in 2002 (Spektra)
• Finalist in the TIGA games design contest with "The Dead Walk"
• Developed leading Bluetooth advertising solutions for world’s largest mall in Dubai, in-car
prototypes for Seattle police and mobile trading tools for the London stock exchange
• Currently have over 500,000 downloads of my own apps on Google Play (and others) as well as
over 50,000,000 downloads of apps I've made for clients.

Languages

These days I specialise in Java, Android, Codename One & Unity3D/C#. But past experience
includes:

Swing, Java3D, J2ME, LWUIT, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, WML, WMLScript, UML, PL/SQL, SQL,
C/C++, C#, Obj-C, XML, COBOL, LUA, Prolog, Assembly, VRML, Perl, OPL/16, Z, Arexx, Blitz
Basic, Flash Lite, ActionScript, Processing.

Other Skills

• Technology Writer (Taipei Times, Amiga Format, Rush Magazine)

• Admob integration, porting, web design, graphic art
• Project Management (I can coordinate my own guys for large projects)
• Computer/mobile games design/development (see personal projects)
• Video Production: Special effects, music video director/producer (under the name of The
Corrupted - finalist in Urban Nomad film competition), live VJing (using my own custom

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software 'Ferox Neutrino'), visuals programming, Time lapse photography

Education

• University of Stirling: Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science (With honours)

Honours Project (developed in Java): Virtual Alumni Reunion Software (VARS) - An isometric
online MMORPG to enable virtual reunions. Grade: 1A (highest possible grade)

• University of Stirling: Master of Science degree in ‘Technology and Innovation Management’ (A+
Distinction) MSc research project: “Evaluating Java for commercial game development”. Grade
80% (A)

• 11 GCSEs (8 As, 3 Bs) and 4 A-levels (Physics, German, Biology, General studies) basic abilities
in French, German, Mandarin.

In-house Experience

• British Telecom – Java application programmer

• Rockstar North (was DMA Design) – Playstation2 games programmer
• DC Studios – Mobile games designer / developer / porting engineer
• Firebrand Games – Mobile games developer
• Beyond Capture – Mobile games technical producer / developer
• Global Drum – Technical director / lead mobile developer
• Visto (was Psion Software) – J2ME Application developer
• Elite Systems – Mobile games developer / porting engineer

Softography

I have delivered hundreds of apps over the years, you can see many of them on my portfolio
here, which I recommend you check out: http://www.garethmurfin.co.uk/

Contact Details

Contact me now to discuss any requirements.

Mobile: +886976351260
Skype: gazy1980
Email: gareth.murfin@gmail.com

For references/recommendations please see my LinkedIn Profiles:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/j2meguy
http://www.linkedin.com/in/androidguy

Or my profile on People Per Hour. (100% from 14 reviews)

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