Adobe Flash/Flex Developer, Business Owner, Published Author on Social Media
Finland
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- Flash developer, consultant and business owner at N. Nyman Ltd
- Past
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- Macromedia Flash/Actionscript developer at Razorfish
- Strategist at Razorfish
- Art Director at Grey Interactive
- Music Producer at M2 Productions
- Recording Engineer at ReelArt / SoundArt
- Radio program editor at PYN Oy
- Arranger and performer at Theatre Academy of Finland
- Composer at Bloodhouse Ltd
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Niko Nyman’s Summary
Director of a RIA development company for technically challenging projects on the Adobe Flash platform. Our special interest is in combining physical devices, electronics and application programming.
Co-author of "Yhteisöllinen media ja muuttuva markkinointi 2.0", an awarded book on social media and marketing (in Finnish). Interested in solving near future problems, and helping businesses realize the value of providing good experiences.
Past experience includes strategy consulting, importing products, music production, art direction and technical web development tasks.
Niko Nyman’s Specialties:
Flash, AIR, Actionscript, understanding of programming patterns and when not to use them, user experience, project management, common sense, WTFP
Niko Nyman’s Experience
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Flash developer, consultant and business owner
N. Nyman Ltd
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
May 1997 — Present (12 years 8 months)
Developing RIA projects on the Adobe Flash platform (Flash, Flash Lite, Flex, AIR.. anything goes). Our aim is to pick the most technically challenging projects we can find, and execute the projects with high standards for user experience and client satisfaction.
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Macromedia Flash/Actionscript developer
Razorfish
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2001 — July 2001 (7 months)
During the last half of my stay with Razorfish I worked as a Flash developer, Actionscripting object oriented applications using the back-then state of the art prototyping and functions-as-classes approach... Mainly customizable navigation elements and calendars.
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Strategist
Razorfish
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)
March 2000 — December 2000 (10 months)
I worked in the Strategy group at the Razorfish Helsinki office brainstorming the future of mobile products, trying to find revenue models for a few in-the-bubble portals, and working on user experience concepts, or 'Interactivity Branding' as I called it back then.
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Art Director
Grey Interactive
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
November 1995 — November 1998 (3 years 1 month)
In this art director / html monkey position I worked on a multitude of web sites from simple web design for a tiny financing company to managing the online graphic identity of the largest telecom operator in Finland.
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Music Producer
M2 Productions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
June 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 5 months)
Produced platinum selling pop music for Finnish artists.
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Recording Engineer
ReelArt / SoundArt
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
April 1994 — August 1995 (1 year 5 months)
Co-produced and engineered platinum selling music and remixes for Finnish artists. At SoundArt I also got some limited experience in making radio ads.
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Radio program editor
PYN Oy
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
August 1994 — July 1995 (1 year )
Edited the Official Coca-Cola Eurochart Top 100 radio program for Russia and eventually for Finland as well.
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Arranger and performer
Theatre Academy of Finland
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Music industry)
November 1994 — March 1995 (5 months)
Arranged the music for a musical play and performed in the play, mixing live playing and pre-sequenced music.
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Composer
Bloodhouse Ltd
(Computer Games industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year )
For a few months I joined forces with Nicklas Renqvist to score the music for the game Super Stardust.
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Niko Nyman’s Interests:
User experiences, near future, electronics and Flash, motion design, stress-less productivity, better work, human resources 2.0, music business, copyrights, generative art, interactive installations, snowboarding
Niko Nyman’s Honors:
Literary work of the year 2007 award by the Finnish Association of Marketing Communication Agencies, 2008
TIME Person of the Year, 2006
Slusnik Luna "Sun" on the UK Top 40 Singles Chart, 2001
A couple of awards for web design projects, around 1997
Double platinum disc awarded on music production (Finnish market), 1996
