Phil Gale
@redjunglePhil is a Software Architect & Graphic Designer with over a decade of hands on experience in the web and software industry. Phil brings with him a rare combination of technical expertise and design flare which helps propel Red Jungle forward as a leader in both design & development.
He started his career as a graphic designer at a web development company building websites. From here his role expanded to include software development, mobile solutions and architecture. He has since gone on to specialise in user interface design, usability and device specific design.
He has a keen interest in all things to do with the net', mobile computing, GPS, and most other gadgets.
- Locally trained Software Engineer with over 10 years’ experience in UI design, and software architecture & web development, with the latest Microsoft development tools.
- Specialist in website UI (User Interface) design, usability and standards compliance.
- Experienced software architect and consultant to the local Government sector.
Gerard van de Ven
@gerardvandevenGerard has been working as a Software Developer for 25 years. After graduating from university with a Master in Mathematics, he started his career as a software developer in the research lab of Philips Electronics in the Netherlands. He quickly picked up the then new trend of Object Oriented programming languages which has been a major driver for his career since then. Apart from working for Philips for 13 years in different development groups and positions, he also has been teaching software development and development processes for 10 years at Bachelor degree level.
Gerard came to New Zealand in 2003 where he started up his own business and moved into the area of .NET and ASP.NET development. He started up the Hawke’s Bay .NET User Group in 2004 when Microsoft was looking for more groups to be set up outside of the main centres. He has successfully run this group ever since. In Feb 2011, his business, Birdwood Software Solutions, merged with Red Jungle Ltd and Long Cloud Technologies, forming a new, larger “Red Jungle Ltd”.
Gerard is driven by creating solutions for clients that just work for them and loves learning new things and using new technologies in the process. He is also a keen tramper and power walker in his spare time.
- Received his Master’s Degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands in 1985.
- Worked as a software developer for the Research Laboratories of Philips Electronics in the Netherlands where he developed simulation software to simulate functionality of IC designs.
- Worked as a Senior Tutor in a Bachelor’s degree of Computer Science, and was instrumental in building up the curriculum for this degree from scratch.
- Was Project Manager for converting a group of 55 software developers at the Business Communications group of Philips Electronics, developing PABX software, from a proprietary language to C++, Object Oriented Programming, UML and the RUP software development process.
- Worked two years as Group Leader in this development group, together with a colleague, each managing half of the group of 55 people.
- As Senior System Engineer, was part of several initiatives with Philips Electronics in the area of mobile phones and Wi-Fi networks and amongst others set up the high level architecture of future products within a home network.
- Moved to New Zealand in 2003 and set up a new software development business, Birdwood Software Solutions Ltd, with most of its work based for clients in the UK and the Netherlands. This business merged with Red Jungle Ltd early 2011.
Matthew Hintzen
@matthewhintzenMatthew is one of the Principles, Chief Bottle washer and all around programming grunt of Red Jungle Ltd. He is also the Founder of Long Cloud Technologies, Inc. (U.S.). While he could say he wrote his first program in 1972 on the IBM remote terminal at Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry during summer vacation (yes, during summer vacation he begged his parent's to let him take classes) He's only really been programming for fun and profit since 1993 (with an emphasis on Profit).
In 2005 He and his partner of 20 years relocated from Santa Barbara, CA to New Zealand, where he is currently working for Red Jungle contributing his system architectural expertise.
His first love was Visual Basic, but like most fickle lovers, he started playing around on the side with C# and now... well VB is still waiting for his phone calls.
He architected, project managed, and lead programmed, a shrink wrap solution for a client that is currently being used worldwide by NASA and Chevron as well as other fortune 500 companies to improve internal HR safety and product quality.
He is the caretaker for the world's most expensive dog; Xander (Who cost more then $600k, seeing as that was the price for the home with a yard that his partner made a condition of letting him get a dog).
Just for fun he plays with his dog, reads, plays XBox 360, reads, watches DVDs, reads, creates sample programs to relax, reads.
- U.S. trained Software Engineer with over 15 years’ experience in international software architecture & development, with the latest Microsoft development tools.
- Received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science from California State University Hayward in 1995 with a Minor in Cybernetic Systems from San Jose State University.
- Architect, Programmer and Designer for both desktop and web applications currently in use by NASA, Chevron, Exxon and other US Fortune 100, and international corporations.
- Served as software architect designing reusable component infrastructure for different but functionally related software products.
- Experienced in conducting extensive & international analysis and design sessions to document business process, data flow, and user interaction of multiple development efforts.
- Designed extensible product architecture using latest technologies based on results of analysis and design.