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Welcome to geeherman.com
Application Development Services
Based in Brooklyn, New York City
Freelance, Contract, or Hire
Custom iPhone/iPad App Development Services I am all about building apps, from functional design to interface design though implementation, testing, launch and updates, every app I make is a handcrafted work of art. I have experience building educational apps, games, shopping apps, medical apps, kiosk apps, 3D visualizations, local and remote database integration, openGL, physics, sound, gestures, location/maps, in-app purchases, image manipulation, sound manipulation, dynamic ads, animation, twitter/facebook/email integration, etc. If you can dream it up, I can build it. |
PBS Lazoo Art Box PBS Kids published this updated and redesigned remake of Lazoo's first two apps, Squiggles and Let's Color. A creativity suite for preschoolers, with a set of scenes which animate along with the child's additions. | |
Lazoo Zoo One of our most successful apps, reached #3 in the free kids rankings, Lazoo Zoo allows a child to interact with and feed characters in a zoo setting, where the character reacts to the food in surprising ways. The child can also create their own food items. Featured by Apple. | |
Magic Stickers! Scenes change from ordinary items into fantastic animations by adding quirky animated stickers. Kids can even create and add their own stickers | |
RD Shopping App Restaurant Depot needed a shopping list app for their customers, to build lists and assist them to find items in the store and mark them as picked. written in Objective-C, accesses RESTful backend. Contract work for Bitxbit as geeherman inc. | |
Find Little Dot 1-10 Published by Baby First, this app for toddlers teaches counting from 1 to 10 in six languages. Colorful dots populate the screen in various animated scenes, tapping the dot with the smiley face helps the child count. | |
Miku's Picnic An original animated interactive storybook, starring Bobu the monkey and Miku the Bunny, with built-in narration in English and Japanese, and a recorded for an adult to record their own narration. | |
3bExam launched Summer 2014. Published by bitxbit, this app manages commercial driver exam patients, provides the ability to fill the forms for both patients and health professionals, coordinates the exam data to a DB server, uploads the completed forms to the DOT, and allows the certificate to be sent to a printer | |
drinkNC launched Summer 2012. drink local! Find the nearest North Carolina breweries, wineries, and places to buy local products. | |
iPatch |
iPatch launched 3 November 2009. My first app, I built to learn to build apps, and becuase it's funny. Check out the iPatch blog |
Ookii Squiggles Published by Baby First, this is a creativity app with animated scenes in which the child's drawings come alive starring the lovable dinosaur, Ookii | |
Two Birds Bridesmaid Built for a friend's dress company, this is a great company with cool products. Check out their website. | |
Squiggles! launched February 2012. Lazoo's first iPad app, an educational experience which brings childrens drawing to life by animating them along with the background scene. Also includes an interactive ebook starring some of Lazoo's cast of characters. Squiggles! is no longer available in the US App Store. | |
Let's Color! launched May 2012. Lazoo's second iPad app is another educational experience which brings childrens drawing to life by animating them along with the background scene. Let's Color is no longer available in the US App Store. This app originally contained extra pages as an in-app purchase. | |
Find Little Dot Colors Coming soon from Baby First, this app for toddlers teaches color names in six languages. Colorful dots populate the screen in various animated scenes, tapping the dot with the smiley face helps the child learn the names of colors. | |
Squiggles! for iPhone launched August 2012. Lazoo's first iPhone app, this is a smaller version of the iPad app. This app is no longer available. | |
Stoopball launched in 2012, this simple game recreated the old New York street game Stoopball. This app is no longer available. | |
Hall Of Game launched January 2011. The companion iPhone app to Cartoon Network's annual sports awards show, this app is no longer available. | |
Adventure Time - soundboard and stickers launched December 2010. The companion iPhone app to Cartoon Network's hit teevee show, one of my all time favorites! This app was replaced by a later version of the Adventure Time app. | |
Delocated, the companion app to the hit adult swim show. Completed, but not released. | |
Screw, Marry, Kill This app was rejected by apple for "objectionable content". |
Gary Herman 497 Henry Street #4 Brooklyn, NY 11231 garymichaelherman *at* yahoo *dot* com M.S. Computer Science Stanford University 1996 B.S. Computer Science Stanford University 1994 6+ years in the Video Game Industry, three as Lead Programmer, earning six professional credits. 5 years as Senior Software Engineer leading product design and development in B2B, B2C and CRM. 1+ years in the Financial Industry, creating an equities OMS utilizing the FIX protocol. Ability to rapidly prototype ideas for proof of concept, sales demos, and presentations. Experience with Agile methodology. Experience building and managing development teams. Working knowledge of many programming languages, environments and platforms including C, C++, Objective C, Java, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0, jQuery, Perl/shell/python scripting, Mac, Windows, UNIX/Linux, MySQL/Oracle/Postgres/Sybase, Apache, REST/SOAP, TCP/IP, XML, OpenSSL, PKI, qmail, .NET, Microsoft XDK and DirectX Available for freelance, contract, or hire. Interested parties, please email garymichaelherman at yahoo |
Custom Application Development * thoughtful, user-informed interaction design * interactive productivity and entertainment applications * relational database design and implementation * custom Content Management System development * expert object-oriented PHP/Javascript/Ajax/HTML/Perl web programming * hosting, security, SSL certificate management experience | |
Product formula and pricing tool, running on LAMP architecture | |
Photo-based Jigsaw puzzle game, built with Actionscript 3.0, play it dynamic php/mysql/javascript web content Facebook app/fan page development Mediapolis Iowa(tm) development | |
Agile Java 6/Swing programming on MarketCenter, an NASD and SEC compliant FIX-based front-end order management system Prototyped UI enhancements, developed an interface for sending IOI messages, created installation packages, designed automated software update system, and gained experience with FIX. | |
Lead Software Developer/Systems Administrator/DBA for a technical solutions firm Implemented and maintained front and back-end solutions for: CityRealty.com, REOL Services, Vornado, Mack-Cali, Ramco-Gershenson, Hartz Mountain, Wein & Malkin, and several other Real Estate companies Managed web hosting, server racks, office networking, nameserver admin, backup and restore, email systems, Oracle and sybase databases, php code, perl scripts, solaris and linux servers | |
Critical Arc/RestaurantPro.com: "Customer Intelligence" Project Leader: Created an embedded system device and software to capture, parse and encrypt Credit Card data, and a CRM website for merchants to view reports | |
Built "digital wallet" B2C web technology for online purchases Architected secure Extranet for CapitalOne and Discover Cash-back rebate system for digital wallet purchases with BeFree, LinkShare and Commission Junction | |
IBM Almaden Research Center: Interned under Dr. Ted Selker researching "conversational interfaces" |
Videogame Programming and Production * 6 professional credits * XBOX 360 console experience * network synchronization, latency and bandwith issues | |||||
Studio: Gaia Industries Games: StreetTrace:NYC and Wing Commander: Arena Platform: XBOX 360 Live Arcade Publishers: Gaia Industries, Microsoft and Electronic Arts Roles: * Co-founder and Technical Director of start-up Gaia Industries. Built and managed a team of 4 programmers in a high-pressure environment, mentored Junior Programmers, and led all interaction with external test and internationalization teams * Lead Programmer, 'Street Trace: NYC' released 8/22/2007. Wrote game physics, object behaviors, networking, AI, Xbox integration, custom b-spline based 3D racetrack editor, and game design documents. * Lead Programmer 'Wing Commander Arena' released 7/25/2007. Managed development team of 4 engineers. |
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Studio: Postlinear Entertainment Game: 10six: the million player game Platform: PC Release Date: February 28, 2000 Publisher: SEGASoft Roles: Lead Programmer/Game Programmer. Wrote custom interpreted scripting language, designed client/server simulation engine, implemented game physics, object behaviors, virtual economy, AI, cameras |
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Studio: Crystal Dynamics Games: Off World Interceptor, Slam 'n Jam '95 Platform: 3DO Publisher: Crystal Dynamics Roles: Game Programmer, boss enemy scripting, graphics tools development. |
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