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Graham Vanderplank, iOS Developer in Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Graham Vanderplank

iOS Developer in Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Member since January 30, 2014
Graham is a top developer with over a decade of experience in mobile, gaming, web, and everything in between. He excels at the development process from start to finish, both working as part of a team and running whole projects using scrum and other methodologies.
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Portfolio

Experience

Location

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Xcode, Android Studio, Visual Studio

The most amazing...

...thing I've done is ship a product to tens of thousands of concurrent users, chatting with them as they got excited and explored the new functionality.

Employment

  • Senior Game Developer

    2012 - 2014
    Cmune
    • Ported #1 FPS shooter on Facebook to Android and iOS.
    • Wrote features for game, game server, and web back-end.
    • Integrated a variety of 3rd party APIs such as Facebook, iOS, and Android.
    • Architected development environment to allow CI and testing in multiple environments, drastically improving quality and productivity, and also reduced overtime and bugs shipped.
    • Wrote tools to support Art Pipeline, including greatly reducing time from design to play-testing, allowing many more iterations
    • Worked heavily to improve Agile processes to streamline dev pipeline, including acting as Scrum Master.
    • Communicated regularly with players and assisted with community events, often named "favorite admin".
    • Helped with internal network and desktop support issues--solved the problems others couldn't.
    • Assisted in game design discussions and helped to scope requirements.
    • Recruited and trained new staff.
    Technologies: TeamCity, Android, iOS, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), .NET, NGUI, Photon, Unity

  • Developer

    2011 - 2012
    Happylatte (formerly Exoweb)
    • Designed and prototyped new potential titles as part of an incubation process.
    • Explored and tested different input systems for mobile games.
    • Assisted with training and development for various other titles in production.
    • Helped to set up community support tools such as forums, email management systems, etc.
    • Organized projects to update internal tools such as wikis, bug trackers, etc.
    • Organised team gaming events to encourage an "eat your own dog food" attitude amongst staff.
    Technologies: iOS, Python, Unity

  • Developer

    2010 - 2011
    Exoweb
    • Worked in depth with iOS controls and wrote some just for the app, such as a more efficient table for displaying many columns.
    • Connected to real-time middleware data sources to display time-critical data.
    • Communicated regularly with clients in a different time zone.
    • Acted as Scrum Master, ensuring ticket and backlog quality.
    • Mentored junior staff.
    Technologies: Objective-C, iOS

  • Senior Analyst Programmer

    2007 - 2010
    Edith Cowan University
    • Managed projects from concept to implementation in production.
    • Received and cleaned many student final year projects and implemented in production environments.
    • Responsible for design and development of "small projects" to solve various issues around the university.
    Technologies: .NET, C#

Experience

  • Bullet Rush (Development)

    First person shooter for mobile.

  • UberStrike (Development)
    http://www.uberstrike.com/

    Free-to-play FPS available for Facebook, Web, and iPad (formerly Android, PC, Mac).

  • High Noon 2 (Development)

    Fight players in real-time with your phone as a weapon.

Skills

  • Languages

    JavaScript, C#, T-SQL, Objective-C, PHP, Python

  • Frameworks

    Unity3D, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Unity, Photon, NGUI, .NET

  • Paradigms

    Agile Software Development, Scrum

  • Platforms

    MacOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, Android

  • Storage

    Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL

  • Other

    Game Development

  • Libraries/APIs

    Facebook API, Facebook iOS SDK

  • Tools

    TeamCity, Visual Studio, Android Studio, Xcode, Git, Adobe Photoshop

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Games Programming
    2004 - 2006
    Edith Cowan University - Perth, Australia

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