Software Developer in Japan

A set of open source plugins for Moodle (Learning Management System). These are designed to turn Moodle into a sort of language laboratory. PoodLL enables audio and video recording functionality across the Moodle platform and adds numerous interactive "widgets" such as stopwatches and flashcards. The site itself and the plugins are written in PHP. The widgets are written in OpenLaszlo, and there is a server side Red5 application written in Java.

Kuroobiya is a Zen Cart based shopping site for Karate goods sourced directly from Japan. It may not look like much, but it contains numerous front end and back end customizations, and generates respectable sales volume. Though I continue to work on the system, I am no longer involved in day to day operations.

I was commissioned early this year(2012) to write a special flash based audio recorder with Red5 back end, and custom Moodle question type and grading scheme. This service is to be used when evaluating the English ability of immigrants to Canada. The service is not yet live, and I have not received permission to share the link.

This is the support site for an iPhone game I wrote for Japanese learners of English. Like much of my recent work, the iPhone application contains OpenLaszlo components, allowing it to run both as Flash or as HTML5. A playable demo version in Flash is available on the site.

This was a GPS application for mobile phones written in Java on both the phone client and web application server. It was written in 2004/5 and was very original at that time. It attracted a good following in Japan, and was what attracted the initial investment for my company Bitwalker. Long since obsolete, the website is no longer available.

In 1999, I jumped from an airplane on a tandem skydive, but our main parachute did not open. Luckily after we released the main parachute, our reserve parachute opened, and we arrived safely on the ground.

I ran the Kepler challenge ultra marathon in New Zealand a few years ago. It is 67km and over a hiking trail which includes a mountain. I finished in 6 and a half hours.