I'm currently working as a developer for Traveller's Tales, the company behind Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman and Lego Indiana Jones.
I have more than 25 years' programming experience, 15 of those in the IT industry, where I've used a wide variety of platforms, languages and tools and been Chief Technical Officer, Chief Technical Architect and joint CEO.
I designed and developed the platform used for the biggest interactive TV text system in the world. I've created point-and-click adventure games; localised software into Welsh, Gaelic and Greek; developed multi-platform Flash publishing solutions and - in the last five years - released more than 40 commercial products onto the market, a number of which have won awards.
If you want to know more about my technical expertise, please take a look at my CV.
LEGO® Console GamesI am currently working on engine code and game mechanics for a number of AAA LEGO console/PC games, including LEGO Harry Potter and LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars. |
The Crisial EngineI've loved LucasArts adventures since Day of the Tentacle and The Secret of Monkey Island. That being the case, I jumped at the chance to create a point-and-click adventure engine, wedged in between some of our other projects. |
Educational GamesAt Awen I was involved in the development of over 40 educational multimedia CD-ROMs. We won a number of pre-school and nursery awards and gained two BAFTA nominations. |
Awen Build SystemIn 2008-2009 I created a new automated build and publish system for Awen to make it easy for any of the developers to build and release products direct to clients. |
Awen Module FrameworkOver the years I created several frameworks and build systems at Awen, learning a little more each time, progressing from technology to technology. I was rather proud of the last incarnation. |
xBrowserAt DITG I devised and developed xBrowser. This was a product that took XML scene definitions as input and compiled to OpenTV binary modules, then injected the modules into a Sky broadcast carousel to be parsed by a browser app written for the Sky set top box. |
WebsitesOver the years I've handcoded many websites from scratch, but these days stick to existing CMSes and frameworks - primarily Drupal, Wordpress and CodeIgniter. |