Work: Introduction

I am a freelance programmer, with nearly twenty years professional experience. If you have an interesting project I would be very happy to discuss it with you.

I have worked with a wide range of clients (from one-man start-ups to multinationals), on diverse applications (from arcade games to financial industry data mining to parsing natural language) in numerous computer languages so I am confident I can handle any challenge you throw at me.

I live in Tokyo, Japan, and speak, read and write Japanese (I have done many web forms, search engines, back-end databases and email broadcast systems for Japanese clients). To learn more about my skills and experience:

Tech Skills And Experience (Multiple pages)
Tech Skills And Experience (One long page)
MLSN (an English-Japanese-German-Chinese dictionary:
     an open source collaborative project to create a Multi-Lingual Semantic Network)
Flash Charting Demos
Other Skills And Experience
Linked-In Endorsements
Work Experience (formal)

I normally work by giving a fixed price and deadline for a project, but can also work on retainer or at an hourly rate. I give free quotes (the first quote may be to help you put together a proper project description and technical requirements document if your requirements are not yet clear).

I keep to the deadlines I give (meaning I will turn down your project if I am not confident I can do it within the deadline you give). Though I make no claims to enjoy it, I document well the projects I work on.

If bugs turn up in code I have written, at any time, I will fix them for free (assuming it was a fixed price project). Wherever possible I will give bug-fixing work priority. For changes outside the original specification I will give a quote.

I do not do graphical design but can put you in touch with top class designers. I also know programmers, translators and other specialists and will consider doing the project management for larger projects. Or I can introduce you to production houses and work through them.