Archive for May, 2008

I’m the new guy

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I joined Team Cooper just under a week ago as a multimedia developer for ActionScript 3.0, PHP, MySQL and other fun stuff. I’m actually pretty new to those things so don’t expect to see any amazing AS3 stuff right away, but i’m learning!
I’ve just finished up a degree doing Computing (Visualisation) at Sheffield Hallam University [...]

New staff

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

2 people joined the company this week which I am very excited about.
Emma brings with her a wealth of experience in delivering digital projects to end clients from her previous role. She will be spreading her time between helping with the marketing and branding aspects of the business and assisting with the contracting & consulting [...]

Flash chat

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Oooo first day, second blog post… cracking!
I’ve been a fan of Red Interactive’s website for a while but…

…I saw the Minuit site earlier and even though it’s probably quite a bit simpler I think I like it more, it’s definately cuter.

Joining the team, human space invaders

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

How exciting? As of Thursday I will be joining Tim and helping him/us build and develop Team Cooper.
I’ve been working as a web designer, flash developer, team manager in the digital world for over 8 years. The chance to work with Tim, for the clients we want to and on our own terms was too much to resist.
Also, I saw this… [...]

Pitching & Pricing workshop with Inspiral

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Inspiral are a charity based here in Sheffield that help new businesses within the creative and digital industries. Businesses exactly like me (Actually, I should say like us now that there will be 2 more of us in the company soon).
Today I attended a free pitching and pricing workshop that they had organised. The aim [...]

Employee Interview

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I have been hunting for a developer to join the company for a couple of months now. It has been an interesting experience being on the other side of the employment process. As a recruiter, it has proven to me how important it is to have a well laid out CV. I had so many [...]