Forum Nokia Champion Personal Introduction Page

Ms. Mariam Dholkawala
Bachelor of Commerce and Economics, with marketing management from Mumbai University, India
India

Mariam Dholkawala is the technical head and founder of a games startup in Mumbai, India, called IGameStudio.com. Having being in the field of Web and mobile game development for nearly seven years, Mariam’s experience today has enabled her to pursue her long-standing goals of extensive game development and community support. Her focus has always been Flash from Adobe and all its supporting middle and back-end languages.

Mariam enjoys learning and experimenting with new ideas and pushing a technology’s capabilities to the edge. Her experience includes more than 100 games developed for the Web and mobile devices — with three award-winning games, a strong background in community support through participation in forums, writing articles, speaking at conferences, and managing the Indian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group.

When not working on games, Mariam likes taking a day off to watch movies, trying new cuisines, or just traveling to other countries to learn about other cultures and languages.

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

Flash Lite from Adobe on the S60 platform and the Series 40 platform, Symbian OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, BREW® (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless), Android, Web Runtime, Python for S60, Java™ runtime environment (JRE)

Application categories

Mobile games, rich mobile applications, mobile video, prototype development, multimedia, multiuser applications

Programming languages

ActionScript, C, C++, PHP, ASP, Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java™ ME), Python for S60, HTML, XHTML, JavaScript™

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Flash Professional IDE, Eclipse, Adobe Flex Builder, Carbide C++

Other areas of interest

Traveling, backpacking trips, reading fiction, music, photography, writing travel stories and articles for online and print publication

Personal Competencies

Languages

English, Hindi, French

Mobile competencies

Flash Lite from Adobe technology and Python for development on the S60 platform, mobile prototyping and demos, design and development of mobile games, and integration of Web services and mobile applications

Forum Nokia Community activity areas

Discussion Boards: Flash Lite, Forum Nokia Wiki, Blog

Forum Nokia Discussion Board user name

mariamDh

Main Nokia Platform Related Achievements

Applications

Flash Lite Games Catalogue — This catalogue was launched as a part of my startup IGameStudio.com. The catalogue consists of Flash Lite games and rich applications developed for mobile devices that work with Flash Lite.

Books and other publications

Ten tips to help you develop better Flash Lite games
Porting J2ME games to Flash Lite
Persistent data: Saving user preferences and game scores
Cryptic Capers: Best Practices for Mobile Game Development

Speaking engagements

India Mobiles and Devices User Group: Flash Lite Gaming Statistics, Markets, and Opportunities
Adobe MAX 2007 Chicago: Creating Flash Lite Multiplayer Games
Adobe MAX 2007 Chicago: Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
Adobe MAX 2006 Las Vegas: Flash Lite Development for Nokia Series 40 Devices
Boston Mobiles and Devices User Group 2006 – Developing Flash Lite Games
Adobe Webinar 2006 – Porting Flash Lite 1.1 content to Flash Lite 2.0
Adobe MAX 2005 Seoul, South Korea: Architecting Mobile Flash Content (Presentation Link)

Awards

Codeveloper of Acorn Mafia – Winner at the Nokia-Macromedia Flash Hunt Contest 2005
Developer of Feline Frolic – Winner at the Flash Games Contest 2005 by Actionscript.it
Codeveloper of Cryptic Capers – Winner in the Best Game Category at the Macromedia Flash Lite Content Contest 2005

Hosted Web pages

http://www.mariamdholkawala.com/mobile
http://www.igamestudio.com
http://www.indimadgroup.com

Mobile communities in which you are active

Adobe Flash Lite 2.0 Development Forum
Adobe Flash Lite Nokia Forum
Adobe Device Central Forum
Forum Nokia Discussion Boards
Yahoo Flash Lite User Group
Flash Lite India User Group

Other achievements

Adobe India Community Champion
Advisory Board of the Adobe Mobile and Devices Learning Resources Program
Adobe Community Expert
Spotlight for Mobile Game Development on gotoAndPlay.it
Adobe’s Macromedia Flash 10th Anniversary Article 2006
Forum Nokia PRO Success Story
Adobe Customer Success Story

Contact Information

Contact Information

mariamdh AT gmail dot com

Personal web pages

http://www.mariamdholkawala.com/mobile

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