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Ross Cairns

Located in both London and Scotland.

DofB: 04/1982.

Education

Oct 2007 - May 2009
Design Interactions (profile),
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Royal College of Art,
London.

Aug 2002 - Jun 2006
Interactive Media Design BSc (Honours, 1st Class),
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design,
(University of Dundee,)
Dundee.

Employment

August 2009+
Designer, Developer & More,
RossCairns.com

Summer 2008+
Freelance Actionscript 3.0 Development,
Campbellhay Associates,
London.

May 2006 - Sept 2007
Creative Designer,
At the fantastic Atalanta // Advertising + Design Ltd.,
Glasgow.

April 2007+
Freelance Designer,
S.O. Creative,
Glasgow.

May 2005 - Jan 2006
Freelance Web Designer,
Web Design Team, University of Dundee,
Dundee.

Exhibitions

Feb2009 Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London.
Jan2008 Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London.
Dec2006 Sparkle, Threshold Artspace, Perth Concert Hall, Perth.
May2006 Degree Show 06, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee.
July2005 BBC Backstage. [Online Exhibit]
Mar2005 Pispers, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee.

Talks, Presentations & Workshops

Nov 2008 Distance Lab, Forres, Scotland.
Oct 2008 Moving Image Lab Workshop Trainer, Mediamatic & B3 Media, Brixton, London.
Feb 2008 Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche, Rome, Italy.

Publicity

Blog Do Instituto Sergio Motta – Fanatical.
We-Make-Money-Not-Art – Fanatical.
Trend Hunter – Fanatical.
We-Make-Money-Not-Art – Corley's Radio.
PA (Newspaper, Scotland) – Random Snow Generator.
Press and Journal (Newspaper, Scotland) – Random Snow Generator.

Technical

Advanced: ActionScript 3, OOP, CSS + HTML (Standards Compliant), PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, Objective-C (iPhone Development), Digital Electronics, CMSs, Processing, AppleScript, Adobe CS, Git, etc.

Other: Eagle, SolidWorks, C++ (OpenFrameworks), Java, JavaScriptMVC, VVVV, MaxMSP, Analogue Electronics, Apache & UNIX (For Web), Final Cut Suite, Quark.