Timothy John
Lead Software Developer at Blackbox-av
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTimothy John is a Lead Software Developer based in Swansea with 12 years of experience building bespoke touchscreen kiosk and multi-touch applications, and he is the sole developer of Blackbox-av’s flagship Lightbox 3 software. He combines front-end expertise in AS3/HTML5/CSS/JS with server-side skills in PHP/SQL and strong multimedia production chops—audio, video and image restoration are a core strength. Timothy has a long history delivering museum and gallery interactive experiences and previously taught multimedia and web programming at the university level, which sharpened his communication and mentoring abilities. He is an active contributor to the Feathers UI open-source project for the Starling framework, focusing on bug fixes and UI component improvements that improve robustness across Adobe AIR apps. Comfortable working end-to-end from CMS-driven websites to embedded kiosk software, he blends creative design tools like Photoshop and After Effects with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues would note his knack for turning fragile multimedia formats into reliable, production-ready interactive experiences.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Multimedia, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Multimedia at University of Wales Trinity Saint David
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Github Skills (9)
bugtracking10
actionscript10
bug-reporting10
ui-components10
flash6
namespaces6
apache-flex6
mp36
flashdevelop6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
feathersui/feathersui-starling
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
User interface components for Starling Framework and Adobe AIR
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 13 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Feathers UI framework. Their commits addressed issues like null object references in touch handlers and mouse wheel events, and errors related to visibility settings. They also worked on improvements related to the Fade transitions and the DataGrid and TextArea components.
actionscriptuser-interfaceadobeextendscriptafter-effects
esidegallery/as3-vanilla-ice
Oct 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 years 7 months
line-of-codedynamic-objectsstrongly-typedtypedtypescript
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