Richard Bezemer

Founder and Software Developer

I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with my wife, three boys, and our cat. I grew up on a small farm in rural Manitoba where there wasn’t much to do so I passed a lot of time teaching myself Basic and C++. I’ve always had an interest in game programming, especially graphics, and cut my game programming teeth on Grant Smith’s VGA mode 13h tutorials. Ahh… those were the days. I finally made it off to Brandon University and acquired my Computer Science Degree.

Since then I spent over 5 years working in a variety of coding roles at SMART Technologies, writing innovative whiteboarding technology in C++ and Flash. I was a key member of the team that created the Flash Ink Aware Development Kit ( pdf writeup ) and the architect behind an internal whiteboarding application API which at the time was slated to become the foundation of most of the software being written at SMART.

I consider myself an expert in C++ cross platform development, ActionScript and PHP coding.

Since early 2008 I've been working as Lead Software Developer for Piria on a freelance basis, doing some interesting work with Flex and Drupal development. You can read about that project here. As of late I've been picking a few small contracts on the side as well since work with Piria has been winding down.