Red Jungle - About

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Phil Gale

Phil is a senior 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.

Locally trained Software Engineer with over 10 years’ experience in software, web and mobile development.

Specialist in user interface design, user experience, usability and standards compliance.

Experienced software architect and consultant to the local Government sector.

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Gerard van de Ven

Gerard has been working as a Software Developer since he graduated from University in 1985. He started his career as a software developer in the research lab of Philips Electronics in the Netherlands. There he learnt the ins and outs of developing high quality software with a group of quite demanding users.

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 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.

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Gerard came to New Zealand in 2003 where he started up his own software development 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. Birdwood Software Solutions merged with Red Jungle in February 2011.

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

Matthew is one of the principals, Chief Bottle washer and all around programming grunt of Red Jungle Ltd.

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.

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.

Experienced in conducting extensive & international analysis and design sessions to document business process, data flow, and user interaction of multiple development efforts.

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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). He is also the Founder of Long Cloud Technologies, Inc. (U.S.).

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 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.

Tarah Carpenter

Tarah graduated from EIT with a Bachelor of Computing Systems in 2011. During her second year of study she entered the field of web application development working for Gerard at Birdwood Software Solutions.

This lead to her completing her final year internship at Red Jungle and continuing on full time.

Awarded the Allister McLay memorial cup and BDO Hawkes Bay Ltd award for best all round Bachelor of Computing Systems student

Winner of the 2011 New Zealand ‘Touch the Future’ HP TouchPad WebOS App Challenge

Bryan Barber

Bryan has over 20 years of commercial experience within the IT industry with skills ranging from initial software design and development through to end user support and training. With a passion for design and the ability to adapt to new technologies quickly, moving into web based software development was the logical choice.

Over 15 years of training within a successful local software house.

Recent roles within an e-commerce business provided valuable experience in website design, development, sales and general business management.

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