Personal Statement
I love the internet. I love writing. I love coming up with ideas. I’m a technologist at heart and I’m not for hire.

What I offer
• Solid understanding of Open Source communities.
• Solid understanding of WordPress market place.
• Understanding of Mobile Technologies (HTML5 / SMS / iOS / Android)
• Project Management
• Solid understanding of Online & Mobile Game Creation
• I am a talented Webmaster / Author

What I’m doing
I am currently running a succesful, boutique company called Instinct Entertainment. However I’m always open to new opportunities, and small writing jobs.

What I’ve done
Fairfax – 2002
Technology Columnist
I spend my spare time writing technology stories for the dominion post.

Ericsson Communications Limited – 2002
Testing SMS services
Testing website functionality

E-Zebra – 2001
I worked with E-Zebra, the very first company in New Zealand to offer SMS services to consumers, my role was to manage the creation of concepts and develop flash animations for marketing campaigns.

Global Safety Net – 1999
Created client database
Managed accounts

With all positions and roles with which I have been associated; punctuality, reliability, and communication were essential requirements and attributes, and I pride myself on achieving a high standard in all these areas.

Major achievements

Instinct Entertainment
• I have been running my own business for three years and have developed good financial and management skills. I have project managed a wide range of Mobile Applications, Educational CD-Rom projects, Online Games, and websites. Since inception Instinct has generated well over $2M.

GetShopped / WordPress e-Commerce Plugin
• I was the founder of the worlds first WordPress e-Commerce Plugin.

Not so major achievements 

Mobile Connect
• In 2003 I approached a group of investors who wanted an SMS gateway to provide SMS services to a dating site. I provided all product management from beginning to end, scoped the services, developed requirement specification documentation, liaised with Telecom & Vodafone, ran a team of four developers, tested the product and managed this project through to release over a six month period.

Enorbus (Mobile content providers in China & USA):
• Instinct developed 250 mobile screen savers for one of their content channels
• These images have been some of the most popularly downloaded images.
• Instinct has generated $500,000 CNY China Yuan Renminbi ($88,000 NZD) for Enorbus in the past financial year.
• I directed two artists working full time for approximately two months.
• I am currently working with a team of two others, writing a comic book with over 400 slides designed for Mobile Phones. The previous work was so appreciated the the North America Director asked Instinct to work on this specialist state of the art mobile application.

A D Riley:
• Managed the development of mobile meter reading application designed for the Nokia 5210 model. The 5210 was chosen to cope with the rigorous demands of field conditions.
• This time saving application enhances the already existing means of manually collecting data. Staff simply browse to the A D Riley WAP site, enter in the required information, and submit the data straight into the database.

Blister Ltd:
• Created an emulator using Macromedia Flash for Blister Ltd.
• The Emulator was used to demonstrate a new innovative interface designed to make browsing mobile web sites more user friendly, colourful, and interactive for the consumer.

In Brief:
• Project Managed Mobile XHTML site to check domain name availability (currently in negotiations with Free Parking).
• Project Managed a Mobile First Aid site.
• Project Managed a MMS Processing Script.
• Currently researching Flash Lite content for Flash Lite-enabled phones in Taiwan, China, Australia, and the United Kingdom. I am also a member of the Macromedia Flash Lite Beta team.

Contacts, and working relationships.
• Developed contacts in Telecom NZ and Vodafone to develop content delivery contracts
• Approached a group of investors and developed Mobile Connect
• Developed relationships with overseas investors to create mobile content.

Contact Information
Dan Milward
Mobile: 021 449901
Mail: PO Box 12519 Thorndon