Gareth Murfin

Gareth Murfin. (Remote working Android & Unity freelancer from Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)

I have 20 years of mobile app experience (in Android, Blackberry, J2ME, iOS), and before that 5 years of development for PC and Commodore Amiga, as well as web development for many years. Experience includes 24 years of Java, 11 years of JavaME, 12 years of Android Java, 12 years of Unity/C#, 2 years of Kotlin, Flutter/Dart. I have developed apps for:

UK:

BBC, ITV, Premier League, NHS, Sainsbury’s, Westfield, Royal Ascot, Alton Towers, Mitsubishi Badminton Horse Trials, Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, Barclay’s Premier League, Thorpe Park, Paulton’s Park, Peppa Pig World, Angry Birds Land, CBeebies Land, Magners, Sinclair Research, Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes, Saatchi & Saatchi, Elite Systems, London Ambulance Service, to name but a few.

In the late 90's / early 2000s I also worked in house at British Telecom (Glasgow), DC Studios (Glasgow), Elite Systems (Birmingham), Visto Corp (London) and Rockstar North (Edinburgh) on such titles as Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Ice Age Skater, NHRA drag racing, Paperboy 2, Puzzle-Bobble, Chuckie Egg, Double Dragon EX, Planet Sagem Racer, Bad Lads Army. For my own company I developed Ultimate Gloom and Zombie Massacre for the Amiga in the 90s.

Rest of world:

Michael J Fox institute for Parkinsons research, Sasol Oil, Electrolux, Indian Military, OLAM Farmer system, Taito, Seattle Police, Piccollage (21^st in Google Play rankings), Gyms (BasicFit, Health City, Holland), Festivals (Sonisphere, Relentless NASS, Bloodstock, Bestival, Wakestock, Boardmasters, Rockness, Camden Crawl, Evolution, Winter Wonderland, Freeze) and many more.

I have a Bsc (Hons) and MSc (Distinction) in computing from Stirling University and multiple awards in software development such as:

Finalist in Google Android developer competition 2 (with Sonorox – 6th in world), Winner of UK Young Software Engineer of the year award in 2002, Best Scottish software engineering project 2002 from Spectra (with an MMO called VARS), TIGA games finalist in 2012 (with The Dead Walk), Winner of Razer OSVR developer fund.

Please see my online portfolio which showcases all of my work in detail. http://freelanceandroid.com/

I am also skilled in AR, VR, Android TV, Google wear, Firebase, REST APIs, Bluetooth, GIT etc. Other skills include technical writing, music video production, game design.