SUMMARY:

To obtain a mobile architect position with a successful and growing organization building innovative digital technologies and services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

XCode, iOS frameworks, Objective - C, Swift, HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, RDF/Semantic Web, SPARQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, Python, Unix Shell Scripting, .NET/Asp

EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineer

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Worked on an iOS mobile app in C# using the Xamarin framework.
• Created workarounds to handle situations where Apple removed API features.

Intermediate Software Engineer

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Augr clinical care notification hybrid mobile app using Angular.js, Ionic, and Cordova.
• Developed enhancements for web-based hospital rounding app using ASP.Net/C#.
• Wrote database migration utilities using the ANTLR4 parser generator framework.
• Wrote a Yeoman generator to standardize web scaffolding for company projects.
• Wrote iOS applications in Swift and Objective-C.
• Single-handedly lead an emergency rewrite of the Confidential EMS Navigator iOS app.
• Responsibilities included planning, creating estimates, and reporting sprint progress in metrics sessions.
• Pioneered company migration to Testflight and HockeyApp mobile deployment utilities.

iOS Developer

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Worked on customer-facing iOS eCommerce apps for such clients as Yogurtland, Dean & Deluca, and Vitacost.
• Built apps using Xcode, Storyboards, and CocoaPods.
• Wrote data access classes that used RestKit for ORM.
• Added bugfixes and enhancements to the company’s in-house framework.
• Wrote a prototype baseball-card themed employee directory app.
• Reduced costs associated with code peer review by writing code analysis scripts that approved and rejected Obective-C code based on its compliance with the company code style standards.
• Wrote and demoed an employee business card iPhone app, using node.js for the backend.
• Wrote a demo app that demonstrated the usefulness of JSON-Schema validation for e-commerce data structures.
• Assisted junior programmers in better understanding Apple’s frameworks, Objective-C, and design patterns.

Mac Technical Consultant

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Responsibilities:

• Developed a mac application to communicate with an embedded medical device.

iOS Software Engineer

Confidential, Carnegie

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained iPad apps for sales staff and field agents
• Meet with primary stakeholders and banged out requirements
• Worked with end-users to develop streamlined workflows that improved data entry speed.
• Fixed bugs
• Wrote iOS code
• Used Objective-C, Apple iOS SDK, and Core Data to write iPad apps for sales staff and for field agents performing energy efficiency evaluations.
• Developed Data Architecture
• Wrote a python utility to validate synchronization between Core Data and OWL RDF data models.
• Wrote SPARQL queries to obtain and retrieve data from the company’s Dydra triplestore.
• Developed a mapping layer to communicate between the iPad’s Core Data store and server-side semantic web RDF graph databases.
• Assisted data architect with design of semantic web RDF graph databases.
• Integrated apps with Google Drive services.
• Assisted with data migration tasks
• Reverse-engineered a proprietary data logger file format and wrote a utility that translated the proprietary format to standard SQLite.

Mac/iOS Software Engineer

Confidential, Youngstown

Responsibilities:

• Used Objective-C, XCode, and Apple iOS SDK to develop both mobile and desktop products.
• Rewrote Responseware iPhone app to be embeddable in partner vendors' iPhone applications and to consume those vendors' SOAP web services.
• Created a prototype for the rewrite of the company's core software product using an iPhone-compatable Core Data model in under two weeks.
• Developed a cross-platform WYSIWYG question editor using JQuery and HTML for desktop polling products.
• Added UI features and SOAP web service functionality to existing desktop products.
• Regularly built and deployed latest versions of the company's software.
• Wrote Ruby scripts to reduce the number of steps needed to build and deploy new versions of the software.
• Worked with the quality assurance department to resolve bugs in a timely manner using the JIRA bug-tracking system.
• Wrote unit tests using Apple's unit testing framework to assist with regression testing.
• Developed all software in an agile environment using the scrum framework.

iPhone Development Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a subcontractor writing Objective-C, XCode, and Cocoa Touch to develop mobile products.
• Helped develop Virtual Maui Guide app. Solved challenging problems with Apple's existing geolocation and application navigation functionality.
• Wrote Ruby scripts to clean up redundant and improperly formatted user content.
• Wrote bash build scripts for Insurance Journal iPhone app.
• Contributed to and refactored an in-house iPhone framework to help Confidential achieve greater code re-use.

Cocoa/ERP Developer

Confidential, Orchard Park

Responsibilities:

• Took over development of a previous failed Objective-C/Cocoa-based ERP project and single-handedly turned it around into a working application that has kept track of millions of dollars in customer orders.
• Helped with business intelligence needs by writing complex SQL reports for management that made manufacturing and tax planning more effective.
• Created a highly flexible web-based document printing system using CSS3, XML, and PHP technologies.
• Interacted daily with the shop floor and management to streamline manufacturing, billing, and procurement workflows.
• Wrote a driver for a Symbol USB laser barcode scanner.
• Acted as DBA for the ERP system's PostgreSQL database backend.
• Wrote a high-quality, high-performance renderer for the DXF graphics file format in Objective-C when an existing Objective-C solution was not available.
• Wrote python ETL scripts to aid with migration of data from legacy systems to the new database.

Cocoa/Objective-C Developer

Confidential, Raleigh

Responsibilities:

• Designed and programmed custom software for the university using Cocoa, C, Objective-C, and PHP.
• Maintained and rewrote parts of the AdminLauncher application launcher, replacing a flat file preference system with a modular configuration system.
• Designed and programmed plugNplayer, a multimedia player that plays back a variety of proprietary and open multimedia formats.
• Designed and programmed a python-based 3D visualization environment.

Usability Intern

Confidential, Durham

Responsibilities:

• Served the usability department in an assistant capacity.
• Helped with the production of usability test videos.
• Acted as an extra observer in usability tests and field studies.
• Designed and programmed a dynamic web interface in JavaScript/DHTML for the submission of intranet enhancement requests.

Software QA Tester

Confidential, Durham

Responsibilities:

• Tested various pieces of software in an attempt to break them and reveal bugs.
• Wrote an ASP script that displayed bug reports.