Kevin Prince

123 Mortimer Road, Mobile: 07956 196237

London Email: kevin@kevinprince.me
NW10 5TN Web: www.kevinprince.me

E D U C AT I O N

University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, United Kingdom — 2003 - 2007

BA Hons International Business

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States — 2005 - 2006

International Business Major / Computer Science Minor - Junior Year

Barry College, Barry, United Kingdom — 2001 - 2003

Advanced Certificate of Education Information Communications Technology

St Richard Gwyn High School, Barry, United Kingdom — 1996 - 2001

6 GCSE’s (English, Maths, Science, Business Studies, RE, Welsh)
GNVQ in Leisure and Tourism

WORK EXPERIENCE
Web Developer, Mobcast, London — (Feb - July 2009)
Working on a consultancy basis with Mobcast providing ebooks and audiobooks to a wide range
mobile devices from Series 60 to iPhone

Responsibilities included:

- Maintaining the existing Codeigniter based platform

- Creation of systems for the ingestion of various types of audio content.
- Linux Server Administration and Infrastructure design.

Skills used:

LAMP Development (PHP4/5), Codeigniter, xHTML / CSS, Version Control, Mobile Web
Development, Mobile /Web Payments, and Linux Systems Administration.
Web 2.0 Co-Ordinator, First Conferences, London — (Sep 2007 - Feb 2009)
Working for a medium sized B2B conference company. Planning and developing a wide range of
news and magazine sites for various industry sectors. Also undertaking other projects within the
IT department.

Responsibilities included:

- Developing and Managing Social Networks for various industries.

- Planning for future networks and other technologies.

Skills used:

LAMP Development (PHP4/5), Codeigniter, xHTML / CSS, Drupal 5 & 6, Linux & Windows
Systems Administration, Project Management, eMarketing, ZPL.

Sales Advisor, AT Computers, Cardiff — (Jan 2007- Sep 2007)

Working in an Apple Premium Reseller.

Responsibilities included:

- Advising customers on a the range of Apple products including custom solutions.

- Providing technical assistance and arranging repairs for iPods and Mac Computers.

Skills used:

Customer Service, 1 to 1 Sales, and Apple Hardware Diagnostics and Repair

Sales Assistant, Gamestation, Pontypridd — 2004-2006

Working as a team member in a video games outlet. I returned to the store for the 2006
Christmas Period.

Responsibilities included:

- Merchandising the store.

- Dealing with customer enquires including sales and returns.

Student Assistant, University of South Florida, United States — 2005-2006

Working for the University of South Florida Resident Services managing the resident computer
labs.

Responsibilities included:

- Involved in running of on-campus residents computer rooms.

- Assisting residents with technical problems related to university systems.

V O L U N TA R Y W O R K

Treasurer & Event Manager, Barcamp London, United Kingdom — 2008 - On going

As a member of the Barcamp London Planning Association, I am involved in the management of

the one the UK’s largest free tech community events Barcamp London. In March 2009 I co-
managed Barcamp London 6 held at the Guardian Media Office with over 200 attendees. I
continue to serve as the treasurer of the association.

ICT Co-Ordinator, Vale Karate, United Kingdom — 2001 - On going

I work with one of the UK’s leading Karate organisations Vale Karate to help develop the ICT
strategy required to support there business. I also am responsible for the development of a web
based information management system.

Managing Editor, Club Skill — 2005 - 2006:

As a member of the senior team of Club Skill (an online games magazine with over 100k
monthly visitors) I oversaw the sites technical and business development plans. I was
frequently involved in code and database work, and routinely was engaging with publishers and
platform holders at events such as E3 in Los Angeles and GC Germany.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Over The Air 2008 (Location Based Gaming Platform):

I competed in the Over The Air hackathon with Simon Maddox to develop a location based
games platform in under 18 hours. The platform was demoed showing a capture the flag style
game around South Kensington. The demo used a J2ME application to transmit the phones
current cell-id to a web-service which recorded the location and sent a map of the next location
back to the device as a graphic file.

The application won the “Best Location Based Application” award and was voted “Audience
Favorite”.

Vale Karate:

Vale Karate is one of the UK’s top karate schools, as a voluntary project I have developed the
organisations ICT strategy and importantly I have developed the organisations web based
management tool which tracks information about students, payments, and events The system is
built on top of the Codeigniter framework, and is still under heavy development.

theNPCs:

theNPCs was developed to be character driven gaming site, I built the sites backend off a
custom PHP framework. The majority of the development time was spent making it easy for
non technical staff to control the site. I also integrated with Amazon Web Services to allow
automated updates of game information to reduce the time spent laboring over basic data
entry.

PORTFOLIO
My online portfolio located at http://www.kevinprince.me