Project Management - Software Full Product Lifecycle & Foundation of Major Open Source Project
Web Development - (X)HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Dreamweaver, Image Ready, Drupal
Languages - English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Catalan
AV Production - Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, Virtual Dub
Live visual performance (VJing) - especially with my own software - VJamm and as part of the VJamm Allstars, a live AV band
Software development - Borland Delphi 1/2/3/5/6 - C, C++, MSVC, Linux, OSX, Macromedia Director (Lingo)

12 years commercial experience including:

www.vjamm.com - Custom built multilingual website in PHP with bespoke forum system and automatic online purchasing / key shipping system.

PIXnMIX - Major website production for Channel 4 Ideas Factory including a dynamic Clip Sharing system on the Creative Commons License - the 'Candy Jar'.

VJamm - Professional AV performance software developed in Delphi. VJamm 3 is designed for ultra-low latency playback of video in live performance and studio environments. VJamm 3 is the only commercial software available to offer this level of performance and demonstrates cutting edge real-time programming techniques - www.vjamm.com . The first public release of VJamm was in 1999 on Ninja Tune.

Gridio - Interactive AV installation commisioned by the Pompidou Centre and European City of Culture - www.gridio.com

FreeFrame - Founding of major Open Source project - now the plugin format used by all VJ softwares to share video effects - www.freeframe.org

Further Skills:

Systems Design, Develoment & Administration: PC & Mac - Windows, Linux, OSX - Apache, PHP, MySQL
Electronic Engineering & Design - particuarly computer interface systems and RF control
Translation - general & technical documents
Graphic Production - Design direction, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max

2007

Community System for the Association of Visual Arts Production Centres of Catalunya - PHP-SQL open CMS framework with custom search facility to allow the centres of the association to maintain pages and HTML search information for public consultation - news publishing tools - image management - forums - calendars - www.xarxaprod.cat

Gridio installation at the British Film Institute - part of the inagurational events for the new BFI Southbank Centre.

2006

Dynamic 'superblog' CMS websystem for the Santa Monica Arts Centre, Barcelona - pixel-perfect design of open CMS theme and custom components commission in PHP-SQL - www.elmalejemplo.com

Catalan Language Course B2 (CPNL Generalitat de Catalunya) - http://www.cpnl.cat

C-Sides Festival - Jerusalem International Conference Centre - Grido Installation and VJamm Allstars performance at a major peace festival in Jerusalem - Custom AV production for the event - http://csides.net

Catalan Language Course B1 (CPNL Generalitat de Catalunya) - http://www.cpnl.cat

Kingsbrook Language School Barcelona - Intensive course in Spanish - http://www.kingsbrookbcn.com

PRAXIS - part of the Leonardo da Vinci programme - technical partner in the development of a model for future internet use in european educational establishments.

Hybridlab - Project Management and interactive design of a Drupal CMS dynamic website system for Islington Enterprise Agency. http://www.hybridlab.org

VJamm 3 - Design and implementation of a new graphic interface for VJamm and major software release to coincide with the release of the Coldcut 'Sound Mirrors' Album which VJamm 3 appears on. Japanese added to multilingual website. - http://www.vjamm.com

2005

Lecturing at Mataró University - Barcelona - Lecturing and practical tuition in Spanish and Catalan as part of a course in live audio-visual performance. VJamm, FreeFrame and the history of AudioVisual performance - http://www.eupmt.es

VJamm 2.6 - Major version release of VJamm Pro drawing on 2 years of extensive testing, consultation and development since VJamm 2.5 - Reworking of the whole VJamm Graphic Image and bilingual web production of new website. - http://www.vjamm.com

NESTA Creative Pioneer Academy - Consultancy for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - Creative Pioneer Academy mentoring as VJ Software expert. - http://www.nesta.org.uk

2004

PIXnMIX - Major new website production for Channel 4 Ideas Factory including a dynamic Clip Sharing system on the Creative Commons License - the 'Candy Jar' - http://www.channel4.com/pixnmix

FreeFrame - Now the dominant format for video effects plugins in VJ Softare, FreeFrame has become a major open source project. FreeFrame now boasts over 250 of the fastest video effects plugins around and is the only portable realtime plugin format. Most VJ softwares now support FreeFrame on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX

K[no]w Money - A VJamm Allstars AV performance piece commisioned by the progressive Austrian think tank - the 'Grüne Akademie' in Graz. The VJamm Allstars is our 6 piece live audio-visual band where the instruments are VJamm and Ableton Live.

2003

GRIDIO 1.5 - Tunnelvisions - The new GRIDIO installation was commissioned by the Berg der Erinnerungen (Mountain of Memories) exhibition, one of the flagship projects of Graz03 - European City of Culture 2003.

VJamm Allstars shows - VJamm Allstars were invited to perform in the Dom im Berg at the opening gala event for the exhibition: one of the party highlights of the year according to many present.

VJamm 2.5 - Major new version of VJamm featuring OpenGL hardware video mixing and the best realtime performance on the market - VJamm has become the definitive AV performance software.

2002

GRIDIO 1.0 @ Pompidou Centre, Paris & MACBA Barcelona - Moving VJamm and a/v samples into the art world, Gridio is a very interactive a/v installation which launched at Sonar, Barcelona, in May2002 then moved to the Pompidou Centre, Paris in October, running there until January 2003. Part of the Sonic Process' touring exhibition, the theme of which was the influence of music technology and production techniques on the visual arts.

FreeFrame - Foundation of FreeFrame open video plugin system by myself and colleague Marcus Clements. Design, development, deployment and management of a major open plugin format in collaboration with partners throughout the VJ software industry.

2001

VJamm 2.4 - A milestone release for VJamm - for the first time now it was possible to MIDI sequence AV clips to a level of accuracy that allowed realtime audio visual composition (eg. of AV beats)

PirateTV CanDU tour of former Yugoslavia. Non-profit 9-week tour of 20 crew, doing club/outdoor shows in 9 cities in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. We took PA, all video gear, & stage. Climax was Coldcut gig in Belgrade with 1 member in UK, 1 in Belgrade and the live gig performed via a web-link using wireless LAN to beam into venue.

VideA_01. Audio visual technology festival in Barcelona. Invited back to perform as VJamm Allstars. Fascinating opportunity to meet and work with other VJ software makers & users.

2000

AV Scratch - Invention of Audio Visual scratching with full realtime pitch shifting of synched audio and video - AV scratch laid the way for a major new performance technique - combining technology from VJamm and DJamm (DJamm was Coldcut's live performance software of the time developed by AP of Camart)

VideA_00. Audio visual technology festival in Barcelona. Invited to perform with other UK AV VJs and DJs.

Reflets sur l'eau. Collaboration with Jon and Maggie Pettigrew, Mark Scarratt and Jon Enkel (lighting & sound). Research/Development of non-linear generative AV QuickTime sequencing technology, and complementary non-linear editing techniques.

1999

VJamm Realtime Research Project - After the success of VJamm Classic we embarked on a major research project, to produce a new VJamm codebase capable of to making a seachange in realtime AV playback.

GMOTV, Greenpeace field, Glastonbury. Collaboration with Millie Young (Millimations) and JunkTV to run 4 day rolling filming/editing/screenings for 2 hour live/VT show each day, to highlight GMO issues.

www.piratetv.net - Began occasional AV webcasts from studio with Headspace and guests. Also involved in streaming media research

1998

Coldcut 'Let us replay' remix album. VJamm clip banks released on CDROM insert with VJamm demo and media from Coldcut and Headspace

VJamm released on Ninja Tune - First public release of VJamm - the world's first AV sampler in partnership with Matt Black of Coldcut / Ninja Tune. This major software release was the culmination of a 3 year project to invent new techniques and make possible a new artform: AudioVisual live performance. 'VJamm Classic', as it has now become known, is still available on Ninja Tune: Ninja VJamm Classic Website

1997

VRGGS - Virtual Reality Guide to Green Solutions - pioneering VR photo walk-around developed in QTVR for the Centre for Alternative Technology with interactive 'click on this exhibit' dynamic linking into a database of information about green technology.

Visual Research and VJing - Visual performance experiments using 'Midual' software developed by myself.

Beginning of VJamm Project - After meeting at Big Chill festival, formed working relationship with Matt Black (Coldcut/ninja tune/Hexstatic) to develop VJamm, based on original Midual concept, as 16-track AV sequencer/sampler for PC. Extensive research and development around PC based live AV performance - MJPEG hardware, PC AV systems optimisation, codecs, performance issues ... video production particuarly single video and a/v clips for live use.

1996

Mmmm - Music video production to VHS and a live event - 'Multimedia Marquee' stage at Cambridge Strawberry Fair (1 day large community event – 6 stages, 50-100,000 people). Dedicated Video production for and with artists for 10 hours of programming: the idea being to have thematically linked sound, video/slides and physical performance throughout.

Trans-Europe Halles festival. Performed at European City of Culture Copenhagen with Cambridge's Clueless system. Multimedia Club performance based on festival theme of 'work and time'.

VJing at clubs + festivals all over the country.

1995

Midual - First versions of Midual - the precursor to VJamm. This was my first foray into realtime AV programming - Midual allowed us to trigger an AVI clip from various frames using MIDI - probably the first VJ software to play video clips.

D-MAL - Drake Multichannel Automated Logging System - Windows application providing front-end to satellite broadcast hardware.

Founded Camart Ltd