About Campbell

Filed under: Flash — Wrote by Campbell on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 @ 8:33 pm

Yep Ok so here it is…. the obligatory about section (with included bad spelling just to help you get the idea).

Background:

Born in Rotorua, New Zealand I grew up getting into all sorts of mischief in cars.
It was here that I went through a plethora of jobs, working after school as a Fibre glasser, making all sorts of things from surfboards to boats. Also Parachute packing for a tourism company, radio dj, Mechanic, Concrete layer etc…
I moved onto Uni to do a course in design, but somehow came out doing film and advertising, which lead me to my first major job. Working at TVNZ (1 of NZ’s main broadcasters) Filming, editing and producing some pretty bleeding edge streaming media (remember this was way back in 2000). We even shot in studio live interactive shows (some on location at events like fashion shows). It was here I got into Internet Technologies, after seeing the cool things that could be done.

Next I moved to  Trimble Navigation in thier marketing and communications department. This is where I really found flash and found my passion for working with it. Incidently this is where I discovered my love hate relationship with .Net.

Arcad was my next port of call where I became a Technical Director, after a couple of years. This place really was pushin some limits, and I learnt alot of new skills.

I then found myself at Right Hemisphere developing the web side to their Enterprise Server product Deep Server. This was mostly working with .Net.

After a stint working at a startup to make the next cool web 2.0 applications with Ruby on Rails etc, I moved on to create my own company PXLDepth. Here I carried on working with the technologies I love (Flex, flash, ROR, .Net ……..). Now I am partners with a great group of people making some amazing products, and working with the Flex community. Adobe were nice enough to recognise these efforts and add me to their Ambassador program where I help steer the direction of Flex in the Pacific area.

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  • Comment by Brett | February 2, 2009 @ 2:47 pm

    Hi Campbell
    we are looking to hire a flex developer based in Tauranga. The developer will work with our existing contracotrs. Are there specific forums etc the Flex developers go to?

    thanks
    Brett

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  • Comment by Marek R. | May 30, 2009 @ 5:37 pm

    Hey Campbell,

    we are currently working on a new Internet start-up (KiwisBid.co.nz).

    We need a person to take the position of the General Manager, who will be the leader of the NZ Team. Someone enterpreneurial, highly-motivated.

    We offer equity stake in KiwisBid.co.nz.

    Detailed description here:
    http://www.start-up.co.nz/jobs/show/7479

    Hope you can suggest someone or pass on the offer.

    Cheers,
    MR
    KiwisBid.co.nz

  • Comment by Marek R. | May 30, 2009 @ 5:42 pm

    P.S. Forgot to say, that I love the bear!!! :D

  • Comment by name | July 29, 2009 @ 8:54 pm

    Beautiful site,

  • Comment by Richard | January 19, 2010 @ 1:50 pm

    Hi,

    Are you available next week for some Flex development work?

    R

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