SUMMARY:

• A dedicated lifelong learner. constantly improving mobile development and leadership skills.
• A firm understanding of building Android mobile applications that utilize web services (REST, HTTP - based, XML, SOAP, JSON or other services).
• Makes good use of mobile best practices to get the best possible results with memory management and battery status.
• Successful implementation of responsive and intuitive design.
• Use of third-party frameworks to create effective and elegant solution for adaptation to multiple devices, screen sizes and orientations.
• Use of internationalization to increase appeal of app across a broader market.
• Effective at gathering requirements and translating into an elegant technical solution.
• Exceptional skill in implementing solutions for design and business specifications.
• Implements UI/UX exactly as specified by designers.
• Able to manage or implement functional unit testing and scenario testing throughout the continuous integration process to ensure quality.
• Architected the creation and the consumption of web services on high volume usage apps.
• Cloud integration service experience, configuring and initializing services (i.e., Firebase, Parse, Google Cloud Messaging).
• Experience and expertise profiling Android apps and debugging code.
• Meticulously researches and tests before implementing Android frameworks.
• Able to select and utilize the best new mobile app developments per need, environment and use case.
• Able to use Twitter API, Facebook API and Google API to create logins.
• Accustomed to working in an Agile development environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES: Java, Java EE, C#, Python, C/C++, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, Scala

FRAMEWORKS: Android SDK, Java JDK, Angular.js 2, Express.js, Django, .NET Framework, JavaFX, Apache, Spark, Firebase, Fabric

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans, Android Studio, Microsoft VisualStudios, Unity, Git, Subversion, OpenGL, Bash, GCC/G++, CMake, React.js, Node.js, JIRA

WEB INTEGRATIONS: RESTful API, Google APIs, Social Media APIs, and various third party APIs.

DATABASE: MongoDB, Core Data, SQLite

LIBRARIES: Java Swing

THREADING: AsyncTask (class)IntentService, Handlers, Loopers, Loaders, RxJava

MULTIMEDIA: Picasso, Glide, Fresco

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN PATTERNS: MVC, MVP, Singleton, Dependency Injection, Builder, Factory, Fa ade, Proxy, Command, Observer, Singleton

DEVELOPMENT METHODS: Material Design, Agile, Scrum

DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIALS: Leak Canary, DDMS, Android Sensors, ART, Dalvik Memory Mapping, Push Notifications, Parse

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston MA

Android Developer

• Built and delivered a highly scalable and maintainable Android application.
• Cleaned up code to make it more efficient, scalable, reusable, consistent, and managed the code base with Git and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• Included support for animating rotation, translation, alpha, and scaling using the ObjectAnimator and ViewAnimator.
• Tuned components for high performance and scalability using techniques such as caching, code optimization, and efficient memory management.
• Collaborated with UI/UX designers to develop a user-friendly application.
• Coordinated with the testing team during the testing phase to resolve issues of Android app performance and user experience (UX).
• Designed custom views and incorporated navigation icons throughout layouts to improve UI/UX.
• Collaborated with PayPal Android SDK for making payments through the Android app.
• Inventory managed on app via internal storage, shared preferences and SQLite.
• Designed, developed, and documented application and framework code in Java.
• Designed and developed functionality between user interactions and delegated back to the server using RESTful web services and JSON parsing.
• Devised creative, technical solutions to functional problems.
• Achieved a great level of decoupling by implementing Dependency Injection with Dagger 2.
• Acted as project coordinator by meeting with stakeholders, external teams, products managers. Good at asking the right questions and providing feedback to stakeholders. I also helped break down tasks, and create workflow plans.
• Acted as Scrum Master managing task load and making sure team members took programming tasks they were suited to, or were properly paired for tasks; ensured all tasks and backlog were getting done, that we made deadline and making sure that all developers were familiar with the main modules.

Android Developer

• Created innovative solutions in media streaming and mobile user experience.
• Implemented Custom Controls with the ExoPlayer library, and incorporated audio playback functionality.
• Added Retrofit to consume RESTful web services to parse realtime data and new items.
• Attended the meetings to learn more about business and requirements.
• Attended the SCRUM meeting to keep track of the current sprint.
• Applied understanding of the Android SDK and Android devices.
• Assisted in approval for Google Play app store, and ensured all guidelines were met.
• Analyzed, tested, debugged and resolved complex issues affecting connectivity.
• Added Localytics for in-Android app behavior tracking and usage, including location, gender, preferences and interests.
• Added Selectors and Animation effects on Android UI/UX elements to create a dynamic user experience (UX)
• Added services and RxJava to download PDF files without freezing the Android UI.
• Applied Crashlytics to bug and app crashes reporting to better refine the Android app.
• Applied fragments to minimize the activity count and simplify the navigation
• Applied my experience with Google coding and design standards on this Android project.

Android Developer

• Used Butter Knife library for Android views dependency injection.
• Added Selectors and Animation effects on Android UI/UX elements to create a dynamic user experience (UX)
• Used Dagger for dependency injection
• Added Push Notification features with Urban Airship.
• Playback using ExoPlayer library with custom UI/IX.
• Created custom animations and transitions to improve the user experience.
• Created innovative solutions in media streaming and mobile user experience.
• Refactored code for a more scalable application capable of very high traffic.
• Followed MVP design pattern in implementing fixes, UI/UX and new features.
• Attended SCRUM meetings, track progress of the sprints and was responsible for task planning.
• Built Android app Activities using compound and customized views
• Added Retrofit to consume RESTful web services to parse realtime data and new items.
• Added Selectors and Animation effects on Android UI/UX elements to create a dynamic user experience (UX)
• Added selectors and animation effects on UI/UX elements to enhance the User Experience (UI/UX).
• Added services and AsyncTasks to download PDF files without freezing the UI.
• Added services and RxJava to download movie information without freezing the Android UI.

Android Developer

• Debugging in Eclipse and code reviews using this IDE.
• Tested the build times with Eclipse.
• Followed MVC architecture in new feature implementations.
• Incorporated the tab navigation over the application using the View Pager Indicator third party library.
• Improved the UI with custom views and icons for navigation.
• Used the Support Libraries from different API levels for backward compatibility.
• Attended daily scrum meetings and worked in two week sprints.
• Involved in test planning and test design for the application after each sprint.
• Use of the startActivityFoResult flow for different features within the application.
• Employed a Test Driven Development methodology to ensure every method was properly done and tested.
• Mentored three new developers about beta testing and requirement gathering.
• Created asynchronous operations using multiple strategies: AsyncTask, Handlers, Intent Services, and Loaders for Android.
• Devised creative technical solutions to performance bottlenecks.
• Added encrypted environment configuration with sessions and user login using SharedPreferences.
• Implemented Picasso to do Asynchronous image loading.
• Added Push Notifications with GCM.
• Regularly provided constructive feedback, assisting and mentoring to team members.
• Usage of core Android resources like Fragments, Styles, Themes, 9-Patch Images.

Android Developer

• Retrofitted four legacy list views to Fragments to gain additional flexibility.
• Incorporated support for animating rotation, translation, alpha, and scaling using the NineOldAndroids library.
• Included support for backward animation using NineOldAndroids library.
• Creative use of media streaming and user interface design for exceptional user experience (UX).
• Customized MediaPlayer controls using surfaceview.
• Used Git and private GitHub for version control; employed continuous integration with Jenkins in a test driven development environment.
• Analyzed, tested, debugged and resolved complex issues affecting conferencing, connectivity and communications.
• Worked with quality team to ensure clean, consistent bug-free code.
• Collaborated with UX designers to ensure new feature implementations incorporated the branded look and feel per UX specifications.
• Created custom animations and transitions to improve the user experience.
• Created new general views for different Fragments used on the application.

Android Developer

• Worked in a small 2 developer team following Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Web front end was developed using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Angular2. Node.js was used to connect to the web backend, which was developed using Python.
• The Android client was developed natively in Java using Android Studio.
• Google Sign-in API was used for both web and Android client.
• Google’s material design. Employed in the development of the Android interface.
• Messages were sent using RESTful API from Android to a web service hosted on Google App Engine.
• Android client implemented Google Cloud Messaging push notification, alerting the user on the Android device.

Game Developer

• Worked in a development team of 5 following Agile Scrum methodology and used GitHub for code repository, JIRA for issue tracking and Kanban to manage tasks.
• The game featured an Artificial Intelligence opponent, where the AI would perform a look-ahead algorithm to calculate the most advantageous move via an evaluation function and using a MinMax algorithm.
• Game also featured a game manager to handle player controlled units interaction with opponent’s units, player and AI’s turn, and the game’s logic.

Android Application

• Worked on an 8-person development team using Agile/Scrum.
• Android client was developed natively in Java, using XML for the user interface.
• The data collected was synchronized with a remote PostgresSQL database.
• SQLite was used to store survey responses If the device were not connected to a network. Once a network connection was restored, the application would sync automatically.
• Synchronized data is determined by timestamp of completed survey question. The survey responses is formatted into a JSON string and sent to a PHP web service which would compare timestamps of remote and local data to determine the appropriate data to sync.

Application Developer

• Worked in a team consisting of 5 members using Agile/Scrum development processes.
• Adhered to software engineering best practices to ensure quality, consistency, and reusability of code.
• Written in Java and using Java Swing for GUI.
• MySQL was used as a remote database.
• Java’s Remote Method Invocation was used to send submitted orders to the to the staff’s application interface.
• Transactions were logged into a remote database.
• Application also featured a manager interface which allowed the manager to manage and order inventory and to manage and edit the customer menu and pricing.