About Me


James Holding - Cubehouse

Me

  • Masters of Engineering – Computer Science at Bristol University 2011
  • Developing and leading young people’s video game course for disadvantaged youth
    • Designed to teach basic programming and game design
    • Taught by a variety of professionals for graphics, music and digital editing skills
    • Running in Devon easter – summer 2010
    • Organised and conceived at Med Theatre
    • Game reviewed online by Adventure Gamers
  • Original developer of Facebook Chess (now owned by Chess.com)
    • Worked independantly to create the world’s most popular and well known Facebook Chess application
    • Joined Chess.com and worked on a small team from around the world to develop the application further
    • Fought off strong competition from the world famous Scrabulous (now Lexulous) developers and their own Chess application.
  • Close-up magician – perform live at Bristol hall of residents seasonal formals
    • Card magician and mentalist
  • Developer and owner of AlphaZone4- World’s most visited dedicated PlayStation Home news website
    • Over 12 million hits every month (as of 2010)
    • Developed on WordPress as a platform – content created with bespoke built plugins for user-generated content
    • Written from-scratch featuring full database API and moderated user-contributed content
    • Highly respected amongst user and development community
  • Website developer, regular podcast guest and guest contributor to HomeStation Magazine
    • Fan-based digital magazine
    • Developed website based on WordPress with brand new completely from-scratch custom theme
    • Custom from-scratch plugins to handle digital magazine viewer and to organise issues
    • Custom modification of Megazine 3, an open source Flash magazine viewer – modified to meet website user requirements and suggestions
    • Integrated with ejabberd XMPP/Jabber chat server using custom WordPress authentication module
    • Written strong informative and opinion pieces for large audience, effectively educating users in complex technical ideas or explaining a concise point of view
  • Motion Plymouth young film award for “Lost Roots” short film with collaboration with the BBC
    • Helped to direct, produce and edit a short film mentored by two professionals from the BBC
    • Project developed by Med Theatre: http://www.medtheatre.co.uk/

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