Andy Bennett

Education History

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Portsmouth School of Art Jan 1993 – Jan 1994 BTEC National Diploma Art And Design University of Wales College, Newport Sep 1994 – Jun 1997 BA Hons Degree (2:1) Interactive Art University of Plymouth Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Postgraduate Diploma Digital Art & Design

Employment History

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iOS Developer Firefly April 2013 - September 2013, Remote working Firef.ly tracks your location to create a journal of your travels (whether holiday or daily), adding in images, videos and checkins to create context. In order to provide intelligent recommendations when you're out and about, the app contains a city guide for a number of cities (including London, Paris, New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, Rome). My roles as CTO were (among others):-

Firef.ly

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Firef.ly is your intelligent pocket travel companion that helps plan, journal and re-live all of life’s journeys.

Links

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Recommendations from people I’ve worked with / for over the past few years: Recommendations Steamshift - the company I run with my brother / business partner: Steamshift Our company blog - what we’ve been up to, thoughts, ideas: Steamshift Blog Experimental stuff - Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc Steamshift Labs

Personal Interests

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Kendo I enjoy the use of new technology in unexpected applications; I am currently actively pursuing an interest in developing physical interactions with iOS devices. I am a keen Kendoka (someone who practices Kendo - Japanese sword fighting), and train regularly, having so far achieved the rank of Nidan (2nd Dan grade) & am a qualified coach. I also enjoy cooking and playing drums.

About me

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The elevator pitch is that I’m a veteran digital developer, having started in the industry in 1997. Over 2010-2012 I transitioned from full-stack web development to full time iOS development. In 2014 I was asked to be CTO of startup Firef.ly by former head of UX at Sapient Nitro. We raised around £750k from a mixture of an Innovate UK grant and Seedrs.com campaign, and began full time development in Swift in January 2015.

Simple Audio

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Control app for iPhone and iPad to work with Sonos-like music hardware

LS:N Global Trend Briefing

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LS:N Global Trend Briefing app for iPhone

Epilepsy Action

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Epilepsy Action app for iPhone

New Era Cube

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iPad and iPhone app and games for New Era

Sainsburysland

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AR iPad for Sainsburys

ShareMyPlaylists

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Native code for a PhoneGap app

Recipedia by Unilever

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iPhone app for Unilever

My Events

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A “swiss-army-knife” iPad app for conferences, built for Novartis.

Website for Haydn Bennett Chartered Architect

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Website for Architect Haydn Bennett

SiteAnalyser website

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BI website for Yell customers

Skills

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Swift and Objective-C (Cocoa Touch, Xcode) Advanced PHP Advanced Javascript Advanced MySQL Intermediate CSS Advanced HTML5 Intermediate Linux Server Administration Intermediate