OBJECTIVE:

A challenging Java or Database or mobile development position.

SUMMARY:

• Java development, Swing, JDBC, Eclipse, Web Services, JUnit
• OO Design and Development experience
• SQL Database Design and Development experience (Oracle, PL/SQL)
• iOS Design and Development experience
• Front End: HTML, CSS, AJAX
• Agile Development, CI (Jenkins, Circle - CI), git, TDD

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential

Lead Mobile Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing the Confidential which produces a real-time, free solar analysis on any home in the United States.

Confidential Co-founder, Chief Mobile Architect

Responsibilities:

• Built the first 25 iPhone prototypes and first two products; made substantial performance and usability improvements to the initial web services API; specified mobile design process, development process; wrote extensive requirements specifications; interviewed potential hires, trained and mentored new hires, did extensive design and code reviews for mobile, web, and server.

Confidential

Principal Mobile Developer

Responsibilities:

• I developed a prototype iPad app for the Confidential .
• This app connected to a back end web service via XML/SOAP, and securely displayed personnel data.
• The app featured authentication/authorization, a drill-down org chart, local search, and geographic search and display.
• This is an enterprise app, and is distributed internally.

Confidential

Senior iOS developer

Responsibilities:

• Specific work included downloading RSS/atom/XML/JSON feeds on multiple threads, parsing and displaying data in tabular, detailed, photo-gallery and video-gallery formats, design of underlying databases, (create, merge, delete, upgrade, refresh, cache) implementation of in-app-advertising (both static and dynamic), as well as in-app purchasing of discrete products and subscription products, and in-app analytics.
• Completed many 3rd party API libraries (Medialets, Urban Airship, Omniture, Three20).
• I integrated GPS/geo-location awareness, photo capture, sharing via email, Facebook, Twitter and Digg.
• I generated all meta-data for apps in iTunesConnect: certs, provisioning profiles, in-app-purchases, test data, test user accounts, etc.
• I pushed the idea of code reuse and populating a sample project with re-usable components.
• I did extensive code reviews for junior developers, and cleaned up many memory and coding problems and errors. I used Instruments to find leaks and performance trouble spots, de-symbolicated crash logs for debugging.
• I drove the adoption of software engineering principles and best practices.
• I mentored/trained two junior project managers and mentored many junior developers in coding/design best practices.

Confidential

Director of Software Development, Co-founder, Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• With 5 others, bootstrapped the company. Specified system architecture including DB design, API, client architectures, COTS/Open source strategy and tools. Developed and continually refined the development process.
• Managed the Strategic Architecture Team and the Tools development groups, was ultimately responsible for system scalability, testability, maintainability, portability and extensibility.
• Hired and managed Client Development, Support, QA and Documentation teams.
• Designed and wrote Java/SQL, including automated testing suites for desktop and web platforms, and numerous system features and usability improvements. Consistently received high marks from customers on system usability.
• Managed several offshore teams, and on-shore remote developers, worked remotely myself.
• Built external web site in Html and CSS, including Flash, CSS, CMS, Salesforce.com integration and Marketo email marketing campaigns.
• Twice recognized for outstanding support to the sales/marketing team, for web-site development, and for developing an on-line Partner Portal program.

Confidential

Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented database, API, middleware and tools for online customer support system. Bridged a relational database to Apache in 1995.
• Built C/Solaris/Perl/CGI interface with Clarify, wrote security and integration modules for Apache (before these were generally available).
• Managed a 5-person team building Java-based tools for Systems Engineers to do real-time discovery and analysis of complex LANs, including hubs, switches, ridges, bridges, routers, and multiple protocols.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Imposed engineering principles on a somewhat chaotic development group: version control, make system, development process controls, bug tracking. This greatly reduced production problems.
• Introduced file compression, saved $8000/year in floppy disk costs.
• Built a language compiler for GIS processing and analysis, in Fortran.
• Implemented the company's first RDBMS, using Sybase SQL Server, both in-house and in products.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I designed and wrote database support infrastructure (in VAX Fortran and Confidential ) for a real-time digital imaging disk.
• I wrote image pattern-matching software for a DNA/RNA analysis application, in RSX-Fortran. Memory was so tight (32K) I had to store image meta-data in the upper 4 bits of a 16-bit graphics plane on the image processing hardware.