PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Focus on mobile/wireless apps including full lifecycle design and development, architecture, UI/UX design
• 9+ years professional and proprietary iOS app design and development experience
• AAS in Graphic Design (2011), enhanced UI / UX design skills, design aesthetic
• Project / product management experience, staff of 4 - 5 people and projects with 15+ participants
• 20+ years progressive professional software engineering and client-facing consulting experience
• Highly analytical problem solving ability, rapid identification/solution, advanced algorithmic development
• Top-notch communication and presentation skills, ability to prepare and deliver pre- and post-sales technical presentations, instructional seminars, and executive briefings
• Business development, mobile strategy and branding, product development, data analysis, tech evaluation
• Self-motivated, quick learner, highly productive, multitasking, able to work efficiently without supervision

IOS TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• iOS 8 - 10 for phone / tablet; watchOS 2-3.x
• Swift 2.x - 3, Obj-C, Cocoa Touch, Xcode 8.x
• Storyboard, AutoLayout, ARC, XIBs iTunes App Store Submission process (dozens of apps), iTunes Connect
• Ad Hoc, Enterprise, VPP deployment
• Core Data, Cloud data (Firebase, AWS), NoSQL
• Core Location, MapKit, CoreBluetooth / beacons
• Core Graphics, Core Animation, Core Image
• AlamoFire/AFNetworking, REST, JSON
• Segment, Facebook Pixel, Branch deep links
• Source control, Git, BitBucket
• AVFoundation, MMMessaging, MFCompose
• GameKit, AllJoyn, BLE
• QR / 2D barcode scanning, OpenCV, OCR
• Pivotal Tracker, MS Project, Visio, OmniGraffle
• Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Adobe CC
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NOSQL
• Graphic Design, UI / UX
• Autodesk Maya / 3D

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior iOS Engineer

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities:

• Assume iOS development for automotive connected app
• Implement new functionality and connect to server APIs

Senior iOS Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Installer app to commission Confidential lighting-based Bluetooth beacons
• Design and implement Position app to refine positioning algorithm
• Design and implement Admin app to create accounts, customers, and test data
• Design and implement Inspector app to test positioning SDK and user notifications
• Reviewed code and resolved issue of integrating third-party libraries into Confidential ’s SDK
• Provide iOS / mobile SME advice to Ux design, Product, and Business/Marketing teams
• Assist Product Manager with managing off-shore web developers, Agile process, etc.
• Participate in strategy / use case brainstorming sessions

Head of Engineering / CTO / Founder

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Technology leadership for discount concert / even ticket startup, including technical architecture and visual design
• Designed and implemented UI / UX redesign of iOS app increasing installed user base 100%
• Implemented Segment, Facebook Pixel, and Branch.io analytics / measurement / growth platforms
• Implemented deep-linking for promotional discounts, credits, refunds, gift cards, etc.
• Created admin app in Swift to automate ticket barcode scanning and inventory management, reducing operations time by more than 25%
• Recruited and managed implementation of mobile web app by off-shore team to capture non-iOS sales

Principal

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• TouchRack™ Visual Anagramming Tool (bit.ly/1dRWTPF)
• SpinRack™ Anagram Utility (bit.ly/KhIJPL)
• Quoin™ Notation and Archive Utility (in development)
• Developed Journeyman™ Museum Explorer proof-of-concept for regional museum, using QR codes.
• Development of Confidential web site and marketing collateral.

Senior iOS Engineer Consultant

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed proofs-of-concept for 4 new feature flares for Flares Mobile Signals app.

Senior iOS Developer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed My Confidential Book app as part of a joint venture with a local karaoke business.
• App both promotes and supports the entertainment portion of the business.
• MapKit, Core Location, annotations to map locations and offer directions to venues
• Parse to download and update data, create and authenticate user profiles, store user settings.
• Static and dynamic music metadata stored with Core Data.
• Helped Confidential migrate webviews to native iOS views to position their app to include PayPal/Venmo

iOS Developer Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Implemented account management views and UI animations for iPad app for a document management software company.
• Developed UIView/Core Graphics animations to simulate a skeuomorphic document drawer opening/closing, and animations to arrange, open/close document folders and arrange documents within open drawers.
• Developed proofs of concept (POCs) for a scorekeeping and timing app for a sports industry company.
• POC for syncing devices and measuring latency of communications, and simulating a standard workflow, displaying real timing data with simulated (random) user results data (scorekeeping).
• Connected multiple devices (15+ iPhones, iPads, and iPods; various models running various versions of iOS) using Qualcomm AllJoyn networking SDK for iOS.
• Created classes to wrap the networking SDK to promote rapid prototype development
• Contributed to technical design and developed classes and algorithms to support app logic and processes.

iOS Developer Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed Communit-E gamified data collection app on iPad for health insurance Company to use at trade shows.
• Uses GameKit, AVToolKit, Bluetooth networking, UIView block animation, Grand Central Dispatch.
• Developed Disorderly Doctor iPad game for health insurance company to use at open enrolment event. Uses GameKit, AVToolKit, Bluetooth networking, UIView block animation.
• Developed PDF View app to allow the display and navigation of PDF files within an iPad app with page curl animation using swipe gestures. Uses Core Graphics.
• Set up over-the-air distribution with TestFlight for beta and UAT testing
• Distributed apps using Apple Enterprise Distribution certificates and enterprise distribution server
• Mentored UX, graphic design, and developers on iOS/mobile app development requirements, Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Worked with UX and graphic designers, generated asset list to ensure accurate production of graphic assets
• Worked with sound engineer to produce effects and background music
• Estimated effort for both projects and updated project timeline during development
• Provided technical advice on displaying apps on external monitors, and provided technical input to documentation and collateral

iOS Developer Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assumed responsibility for design and development of event attendee and exhibitor iPhone apps from vendor
• Migrated software from outside vendor to in-house source control prior to App Store submission
• Lead efforts to design and implement reverse lead retrieval app, for both iOS and Android
• Implemented TestFlight over-the-air testing for beta and UAT testing
• Created QR scan app to connect businesses to customers; integrated results with existing systems
• Created various proof-of-concept apps: Reporting, phone directory, computer vision, QR code reader
• Assisted with product development: features evaluation, gap analyses, etc. Participated in strategy and product roadmap development