My name is Stephen Braitsch and I am a designer, developer, and filmmaker living in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. My professional experience is mostly developing AS3 applications that target the Flash platform, however I am constantly experimenting with emerging technologies that explore the human / computer relationship, most recently the Java based Processing language and the C++ libraries of OpenFrameworks.

I started playing with Flash around version 5 of the program when I first discovered it in an elective class in film school. I used Flash back then as a means to post my film/video projects online and it wasn’t long until I took to teaching myself AS2 and started to really get into the expressiveness of the program.

Since then I’ve since grown with the platform teaching myself OOP design principles, AS3, Flex, AIR and a variety of popular frameworks that expedite development.

I also have a solid working knowledge of standards compliant CSS / XHTML, JavaScript, Ajax, Php, MySql, AMFPHP, as well as 10+ years of writing, directing, and editing Film and Digital Video.

I hope to keep this space updated with my travels, experiments, and client work as well as any and all other observations, adventures and life distractions.

Cheers,
Stephen