Dan Florio
Updated: 1/2/2007

I am an expert-level Actionscript developer looking for a web application team to do object oriented programming (OOP) with Adobe Flash, Flex, and soon Apollo. It would be an added bonus if your team also needs someone to assist with user experience (UX) and graphic design. It is important to me to work in an environment where I am pushed to expand my skills, both technically and creatively.

In my current role as the Senior Actionscript Developer for the Xbox team at Microsoft I have the opportunity to work with some of the finest UX (User eXperience) program managers in the business. I played a meaningful part in developing the recent Xbox Dashboard and Zune UX products.

For some of the projects at Xbox I am the sole designer and developer. In those instances I do all of the analysis, design and implementation. Other projects are a team effort in which case I manage the unification of the assets and code in addition to assisting the other developers with their work as needed.

About the skills I can offer your team:

• I like to work on projects that push the boundaries of what can be done with Flash. I know that not every project can be bleeding edge but a few per year is nice. Along those lines I have done three things that many Flash developers would have said was impossible.
• LiquidText (polygeek.com/liquid-text/) The Senior Support Engineer for the Flash player at Adobe said it couldn’t be done. Three days later, working between sessions at FlashForward, I showed him that it could be.
• video.Maru (polygeek.com/videomaru/) if you asked someone to create a custom video interface, from scratch, and code in the functionality for playhead seeking, volume controls, and play/pause button they would probably tell you it would take a few days. I’ll only need two minutes.
• DeviceFade: the Flash documentation plainly says that you cannot mask or _alpha fade device fonts. The Flash documentation is wrong.
• I don’t know everything about Flash. For instance I’ve never worked with the Socket class – it just never came up. However, given 8 hours I’ll be comfortable doing anything you need to do with sockets, or whatever.
• Aside from continually improving my knowledge of Actionscript I am currently working into ColdFusion and SQL.

Thank you for your consideration. I hope we can chat about how I may help your team achieve its goals for 2007 and beyond.

Sincerely,
Dan Florio