Steve Smith

Steve Smith

Independent Multimedia & Flash Developer

Melbourne Area, Australia

Current
  • Independent Multimedia & Flash Developer at SeniorCreative (Self-employed)
Past

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Education
  • University of Plymouth
  • Universitat de Barcelona
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Steve Smith’s Summary

I have always concentrated on keeping a high standard of skills across the board - from broadcast, games & graphics, to flash development of major systems and dynamic PHP site development. As a result, I have the skills and knowledge to offer a full service to, I believe, any size of client from a small one person outfit, to much larger corporations. I have worked for top brands in the UK and Australia, and I have won a couple of awards internationally for my work. I sometimes contract for some companies in Melbourne, but I am committed to building my own client base, with a view to maybe growing into an office with some employers one day. I will keep the company small and fun but any colleagues would have to be serious experts and perfectionists like myself! ha... :)

Steve Smith’s Specialties:

Strong visualization, problem-solving, high standard of technical knowhow combined artistic flair. Optimism and open-mindedness. Knowledge of different programming and spoken languages. Always aiming for high standards, polish, originality, pushing boundaries.

Steve Smith’s Experience

  • Independent Multimedia & Flash Developer

    SeniorCreative (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

    December 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

    My folio site seniorcreative.com.au is based upon my own folio of work going back 9 years or so. As a body of work it has now taken on its own brand - with me giving it a nice logo and the style of my own graphic design, it has turned into a platform for my own business. I am greatly influenced by web 2.0 apps namely flickr, istockphoto in taking this site forward, building up my own client base here in Melbourne with hopefully a growing number of key sites for high profile clients and friends. I am now developing a set of business tools and products to enhance online businesses. Watch this space!

  • Freelance Flash Developer

    M&C Saatchi

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    June 2008 — June 2008 (1 month)

    The great digitial team at M&C Saatchi got me in to fix up one of their flash projects. I recoded from actionscript 2 to actionscript 3. This was a tight deadline but I really enjoyed it and was very lucky to work on this amazing project - http://www.lessonsinleadership.com.au

  • Freelance Flash & PHP Developer

    Tribal DDB

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    March 2008 — March 2008 (1 month)

    A short contract in at tribalDDB covering for their Flash person. Some interesting little jobs. Nice to see a few ex-colleagues around the building too. Couldn't believe how many folk worked there. Nice office and european feel.

  • Freelance Flash Developer and Designer

    Atomic Media

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

    2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

  • Freelance Flash Developer and Designer

    MCM entertainment

    (Public Company; Online Media industry)

    2006 — 2007 (1 year )

  • Contractor

    ABC New Media

    (Broadcast Media industry)

    April 2006 — June 2006 (3 months)

  • Senior Interactive Designer

    Digital Pictures

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

    May 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 8 months)

    Based in Melbourne, Australia. At Digital Pictures I overhauled the company's entire internal website structure spanning up to 10 different departments. I made a huge flash-based CMS now called channels.dp / dptv - aimed at providing broadcast styled user-customisable flash sites. I also worked on various high level dvd projects for the Australian film industry, and some other cool websites. I specialised in various compression techiniques, and was meant to work in interactive TV industry but this never materialised so I left to work for myself. See my folio!

  • Tutor of After-Effects

    Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & Television, Multimedia

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 2005 — October 2005 (2 months)

    I briefly covered a short module over 3-4 weeks for Kylie Robertson's Class. I was brought in as an after-effects 'expressions' specialist, and greatly enjoyed sharing some of my tips and tricks with the students. I found it really rewarding to see the students take the knowledge on board and use it within their own projects.

  • Games & CD-Rom Programmer

    Workhouse

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

    1998 — 2000 (2 years )

    aha well let me see. going back a while now this! At workhouse, in Winchester, UK, I was pumping out shockwave games for the BBC and iTV. I worked on some large CD-ROM projects, late 90's style! One was for PWC. I ended up being involved in BlueSQ - the UK's first interactive TV betting channel on Open... I did a funny flash (4) site also for rosie and jim. We had some wicked clients... I miss it but still keep in touch with some of the great people from there.

  • Multimedia Designer

    AA Multimedia

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Media Production industry)

    1996 — 1997 (1 year )

    Did my year work placement for uni here in Basingstoke. Met lots of lovely people. Got paid peanuts. Learnt a lot there!

Steve Smith’s Education

  • University of Plymouth

    Bsc Hons Medialab Arts , Interactive Media , 1993 — 1998

    Graduated with first class honours and won a national award.

  • Universitat de Barcelona

    Bsc Hons Medialab Arts , Public Art , 1996 — 1996

    Studies of gaudí, architecture, public art in urban spaces, did lots of drawings, played lots of soccer with people from all round the world. It was brilliant

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Steve Smith’s Interests:

flash, php, xml, dynamic interactive media, broadcast media, cooking, breadmaking, running, cycling, swimming, fishing, yoga, travel, languages, arts, programming since i was 8 yrs old...., wine, beer, france, spain, gamecube, kids, robots

Steve Smith’s Groups:

  •    Australian New Media
  •    Flash Coders

Steve Smith’s Honors:

2004 - SILVER MADC - Melbourne Australia for Thunderstruck the Movie Website
1998 - NEW DESIGNERS NATIONAL WINNER FOR INTERACTIVE DESIGN - London

Steve Smith’s Contact Settings

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