Resume for Jacqueline "Kira" Hamilton - kira@lightsphere.com

I am a software developer with over 10 years experience; since 2008 I've primarily been doing iPhone app development. Skills: Objective-C, Cocoa/Cocoa Touch, HTML, CSS, XML, Object-Oriented Perl, mod_perl, Mason, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX.

iPhone Apps I've Written:

My Apps:

• FitLevel - workout timer and fitness game
• Dot-o-mator - domain-name-checking app that makes REST requests to check domain name availability.
• Eggster - a Match-3 easter egg hunting game using Core Animation.
• Holiday Bells - a handbells app using the iPhone's accelerometer for "shake to ring" functionality.

  Apps For Steve Jackson Games:

• Zombie Dice - a dice game. Using cocos2d.
• Munchkin Level Counter - a counter app for the Munchkin card game.
• The Fnorder - this app displays random messages from the Illuminati.

Web portfolio: http://lightsphere.com/design/

Work History

Steve Jackson Games - Web & iPhone Developer, 2008-present.

Currently developing iPhone and iPad applications for SJ Games. We've released 3 iPhone apps so far.

Also developed code (using Perl, JavaScript+AJAX, and MySQL) to manage the quarterly royalty payments system for SJ Games products.

Set up mobile-friendly versions of key pages on the www.sjgames.com website.

Monster.com (Monster Learning / Education.org) - Perl & JavaScript Programmer - 2007-8

Developed sites for schools listed on Monster's higher ed school search engine. Development included page setup (HTML, PHP and JavaScript), database setup (MySQL), and custom Perl modules to handle each school's specific lead-delivery requirements. Version control using Perforce.

Education.org - Perl & JavaScript Programmer - 2005-6

Worked with a team of developers to create and maintain sites for Education.org's school search engine. Tasks included page creation (HTML and JavaScript), database setup (MySQL), and custom Perl modules to handle each school's specific lead-delivery requirements. Version control using CVS.

Steve Jackson Games - Webmaster - 1996-2005

Web programming (Perl, JavaScript, MySQL, mod_perl) in support of the SJ Games website. Major projects included:

• UltraCorps, a turn-based space strategy game played in the browser.
• Warehouse 23 - the online catalog and shopping cart system for physical goods
• Pyramid Magazine - an online subscriber-only webzine, including a web based discussion board and online chat room (Flash); also developed the content management system for Pyramid editors and admins
• e23 - online catalog / shopping cart / digital delivery methods for PDFs and other digital products

GTE - contract HTML/CGI programmer, 1996

CGI programming in Perl on Unix. Some Web page design and artwork. Programmed an online ordering system for a local restaurant, using Perl on a Unix platform. Also programmed an email directory for members of GTE's Cityscape trial. Some Unix system administration.

EDS - contract HTML/CGI programmer, 1995-6

Perl CGI programming on Unix (Sun and SGI platforms); also did some HTML and Web graphics.

Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Corp., 1991-5

Fortran programming and graphics creation for the Space Station engineering group.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Information Systems, the University of Houston at Clear Lake, 1991.

iPhone Bootcamp, Big Nerd Ranch, September 2008.

Publications

CGI Programming 101 An introductory book that teaches non-programmers how to write their own CGI programs.

CGI Programming 201 A slightly more advanced book than CGI Programming 101, this book shows the reader how to develop a Web message board system and Web log (blog) using modular, object-oriented programming techniques.