SENIOR MOBILE DEVELOPER / SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Versatile IT professional with in-depth experience architecting, building, implementing and deploying end-to-end IT solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Confidential application targeted to small businesses, designed to place data where users need it most in their hands. Revamped core data model using SQLite to make application available offline, including refactoring asynchronous communication layer for improved UI responsiveness. Refactored existing Android code to conform to best practices for UI performance. Enhanced UI for new data points after API upgrade.

Confidential

Augmented reality application allows end users to virtually try-on glasses using still images of their face. Built app using Java in Eclipse to customer spec. Built UI, implemented service layer, data storage layer, account integration, camera processing, backward compatibility and dependency injection layers using Guice. Tags: App store deployment, Camera, UI, OpenGL, JSON, RESTful APIs, Asynchronous Services, Threading, Web Services, Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 , proguard

Confidential

Enterprise location tracking application targeted to Fortune 500 executives and corporate travelers. Built portal using LAMP stack PHP5/MySQL . Architected network and backend infrastructure. Built Android, iOS and Blackberry location based applications to report their locations on fixed intervals to centralized server. Tags: Asynchronous communication, GPS, location based services, enterprise deployment, RESTful APIs, JSON, multi-threading, background processing iOS included , push notifications.

Confidential

Data warehousing

• Developed and published social networking app, myList for Android ported from iOS , previously available for download within Google Play store. Project involved extensive custom UI drawing, mating to REST style JSON backend service, push notifications, NFC, Facebook API integration, webviews for interspersed HTML5 content . Targeted to 4.x, but provided compatibility back to 2.3.x.
• Developed back-end services in Java utilizing a combination of Spring, Jackson and Tomcat to a MongoDB database system. Led performance analysis that resulted in a reduction of internal application latency by multiple seconds, in addition to providing additional capacity for high traffic events such as Ironman sponsorship.

Confidential

• Confidential compliant technology consulting firm with focus on mobile application development Android, iOS and Blackberry , n-tier mobile integration, LAMP based high traffic Internet property architecture and management.
• Founded organization for consulting arrangements. Since 2008, have personally developed over 20 applications targeted to a variety of platforms Android, Blackberry and iOS in a variety of regulated FDA, SOX and non-regulated environments.

Confidential

Data warehousing and data mining vertical.

Senior Software Engineer

Overhauled and streamlined law enforcement technical operations, increasing capacity, availability and redundancy. Analyzed business processes, practices and developed technical requirements surrounding them. Led team of 6 developers coordinated larger teams inter-departmentally to achieve business objectives.

Major Achievements:

• Developed internal Android and Blackberry applications for use with search systems
• Migrated environment from one combined ad-hoc PHP / MySQL server to a distributed, specifically tasked network of over 20 servers.
• Architected and implemented front-end web portal for law enforcement activities currently in use by law enforcement operations in over 38 countries with tens of thousands of users
• Re-architected multiple TB data storage practices, redesigned schemas resulting in a decreased average report time of minutes to fractions of a second
• Developed back end integration into highly secure and regulated credit bureau environments for the purposes of performing background checks
• Architected back end management systems built front end search interface while developing design requirements with C-Level executives utilized PHP5 and MySQL 5.1.

Implemented complex high availability solutions utilizing cross site master-master replication in MySQL 5.1

Confidential

Online advertising network, operating on a cost per acquisition/action basis, with 2007 revenue of 50M.

Chief Software Architect

Directed activities including product development, business analysis, strategy development and its implementation, and employee workflow analysis. Hands-on implementation of MySQL, Apache and memcached. Led 8-member development team. Oversaw hardware purchase and implementation, staffing and management of corporation's technical division, and project management. Managed 2M annual budget.

Major Achievements:

• Expertly built ad-serving software and network infrastructure capable of delivering over 2B impressions daily while adhering to budgetary constraints.
• Reduced overhead costs and increased capacity by transitioning ad-serving software from 3rd-party ASP to in-house solution consistently increased monthly revenues 180 over 2007 figures.
• Enhanced network availability and increased redundancy by migrating network data center from an insecure California location to secure facility at NAP of the Americas, a world-class data center.

Confidential

Company specializing in products including web domain name registrations, ecommerce applications, merchant processing, web hosting, and technology consulting, with annual revenue of nearly 1M.

Director of Technology

• Led product innovation and development activities, business analysis and implementation strategies, and hardware procurement and implementation. Directed
• Designed, implemented, and expertly managed a complex network of 50 servers utilizing multiple operating systems.
• Developed innovative applications enabling communication between Windows NT and Unix-based servers.
• Earned critical PCI compliance through creation of a payment-processing gateway that interacted with vital and conformed to PCI standards.
• Delivered 25K savings in licensing fees annually by transitioning business model from Microsoft to LAMP architecture.
• Implemented custom firewall using FreeBSD server, NICs and ipfw software migrated structures from flat file format to MySQL, maintained systems through 2007 with no security breaches and near 100 uptime.
• Provided expert digital forensic consulting to 3rd-party agents including Microsoft, Inc. while ensuring compliance with legal subpoenas for client records.
• Successfully managed full-scale network migration from Florida to Toronto.