Summary of Qualifications

• Accomplished Senior Software Engineer/Technical Lead with over 10 years of proven success and experience in designing developing and building from inception to deployment mission-critical software applications.
• Exceled in developing, defining and facilitating information-gathering sessions which included all stake-holders involved with functional and technical requirements, system design, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, functional and technical documentation, end user training, and final implementation of software deployment to the production environment.

Skills

• Experienced with Microsoft Project, Visio, Power point, Word and Excel
• iOS4 to iOS8 , Xcode, SDK, Objective-C, Swift, Cocoa Touch and Core Data, UIKit, RESTkit Frameworks , GIT, iOS story-boarding, iOS Mobile UI/UX, Appcelerator Titanium Studio for cross-platform mobile development, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript for cross-platform mobile development, integration of RESTful API's in iOS apps, Java, Cobol, AWS S3 , StackMob

Professional Accomplishments

Confidential

• Marketing, and business development
• Interviewed iOS mobile application developers/co-founder experienced with building iOS mobile applications
• Personally designed and developed internal proprietary iOS mobile applications
• ARC Automatic Reference Counting was used for memory management to avoid memory leaks in iOS7 version instead of manually coding of retain, release and auto-release of objects from memory in NON-ARC iOS releases.
• Debugging features were used within Xcode to set breakpoints and suspend program execution of Objective-C code which allowed me to step through logic paths within the program code line-by-line to identify defects, invalid data in variables and arrays, as well as validating correct logic paths during program execution
• Added Objective-C's NSLog statement in code to display data and examine errors during debugging and unit testing of iOS app
• Git Subversion Control was implemented for source-code management
• Core Data was used for object graphical modeling within the Cocoa Touch framework layer of iOS,,
• StackMob was used as the back-end as a service BaaS , Amazon Web Service AWS Simple Storage service S3 was implemented because of it's automatic scalability and ease in retrieving and storing data and objects
• iOS RESTful API Web Services were integrated in the iOS apps to access and parse XML Extensible Markup Language and JSON JavaScript Object Notation formatted data
• iOS Beta Testing was done prior to deployment and release of ALL mobile app builds. In addition, third-party testing software Test Flight was used by anonymous and selected testers to rigorously test for performance and functionality prior to deployment
• Downloaded iOS certificates for signing and provisioning of devices prior to app deployment to internal proprietary enterprise after extensive testing
• JavaScript, HTML5 Hyper Text Markup Language 5 , and CSS3 Cascading Style Sheets 3 were written within the cross-platform tool Appcelerator Titanium Studio to deploy apps to the enterprise for iOS and Android devices.
• Adobe Photo Shop CS6 was used for prototyping, designing and developing all graphics for the apps. All iOS mobile app screen prototypes were reviewed and approved by users which depicted rich graphical displays which allowed users to view static and non-interactive iOS screens prior to development tasks
• Avoided pauses and wait-time responses in apps within the iOS native, and Android cross-mobile platforms UI User Interface views by leveraging multi-threading coding techniques and asynchronous calls

Confidential

• Assumed full responsibility for overseeing all aspects of software development life cycle within the financial revenue systems applications business unit of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including but not limited to directing the completion of software application code written in Java and Cobol to collect duties, fees and taxes from importers and brokers. My time was split between 60 development and maintenance of software and 40 project management throughout the duration of the contract.
• Provided hands-on expertise in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC
• Accustomed to working with end-users to determine requirements and addressing needs, as well as researching and resolving critical issues quickly and efficiently
• Decomposed scope of projects from high achievements on Work Breakdown Structure WBS to smaller achievements, then down to the level of individual tasks that minimized rework, vague and unclear assignments to team members, and additional time needed to complete projects
• Communicated technical issues to non-technical end-users, and IT managers
• Made recommendations, proposed corrective actions or alternatives to eliminate system defects after researching root-cause of issues that improved system uptime from 90 to 99 .
• Coordinated and assisted IT executives, project managers, business analyst, software engineers, software configuration management specialist and end-users with specific project requirements, planning, and understanding of complex system business processes
• Minimized due-date slippage and software defects with hands-on approach in assisting software engineers with identifying and correcting logic in code written in Java and Cobol during unit testing, integration testing, system testing and user-acceptance testing prior to migration of software to quality assurance QA platform for independent validation and verification IV V testing thus mitigating risk of delays to project schedule and budget
• Created and maintained dataflow diagrams DFD depicting system flows, swim-lanes, and processes using Microsoft Visio

Confidential

Secret Clearance

• Wrote, tested, and maintained proprietary financial government accounting software for the Social Security Administration used to report financial obligations
• Met with accounting staff weekly to assess needs/requests, and as a result made technical recommendations
• Assisted with the implementation of an automated travel reimbursement system
• Conducted user training and prepared all functional and system design documentation