John-Paul May

Served as iOS, tvOS, and generalist senior architect and programmer for creating and launching a massively successful US streaming service aimed at kids. It launched at number 1 in all app stores, with thousands of reviews and 4.8 stars on Apple.

I created Fingercoaster for Smaaash Entertainment, Asia—by far the world's most successful VR ride.

It's the most complex existing VR product. A rack of PCs builds worlds in real-time, driving novel VR-motion-platform software and hardware. Riders "draw their own world" on kiosks and then pay to ride a multi-user, VR-motion experience.

A huge industry hit, it immediately achieved seven figures in machine sales. It is by far the highest ticket sales VR attraction. It often outsells competitors (such as Cruden, Simuline, etc.) by 10-to-1 in side-by-side sites.

An enormous financial success and a perfectly executed "retro" kid's game for the world's number one YouTube celebrities of the day. Celebrity apps are a problematic field: the direct competitor's app, which was created in response, ultimately failed.

Just the whacky promotional video for Head Esploder had around 13 million views in a few weeks—it is by far the most successful promo video ever for a digital product for that organization.

As an experienced comedy and advertising writer, I also wrote many comedy bits between the celebrities in the app!

During a staffing shortage, I was pleased to step in as an instant-emergency senior architect for Discovery Channel for some months. I worked on the Roku app, animation tech, and, in particular, a number of tools relating to testing automation.

I led this major business training platform for a traditional pen-and-paper training company. I worked with real-time architecture (AWS, Node.js, Agora stack), game-like 3D desktop apps, and a complex move-between-rooms trainer/participant video chat concept.

I was pleased to be the first research programmer for the unusual mobeus.com project, taking it to beta. It combines real-time GPU processing of the user's desktop with live, completely flexible multi-room video chat and a highly novel interface. Additionally, I "just" created the real-time cloud system (AWS serverless services, Node.js, etc.) to allow for the flexible multi-room video system.

My own company made the smash indie hit called PadRacer. It made six figures in a few months and touched number one in a couple of countries.

It was the 1st phone-to-pad networking game. This is an excellent example of how being the 1st with new technology can lead to commercial success.

It received much coverage from Mashable, Wired, and conventional news outlets worldwide. It is an excellent example of combining a gimmick with a difficult new technology. iOS device-to-device real-time networking is simple now but was utterly scratch-written UDP programming at the time.

I created the first good finger-to-mesh system. Starting with a line drawing, it creates a 3D mesh and other assets needed for racetracks for car racing games. The toolset was sold to several studios—an example of financial success by executing a technology first. Spline-based Loft systems are now commonplace in 3D technical software.

While with Star Sports Asia and developing their VR theme park chains in Asia and the Middle East, we worked with several major global sports brands. For example, for the Ronaldo group, I created a number of "Imagineering"-like installations and simulators such as Goalstopper.

As an example of general app/cloud development, I built ProtocolBuilder.com for the pharma industry. Other typical app-cloud projects include Bookmovement.com (web architecture, apps, staffing), Metrie.com (AR-catalog apps), and Skywall (a European social startup).