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Denver, Co, Us

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Started as mobile team lead for greenfield IoT, location, and mapping SDKs (Mapkit, Mapbox, TomTom, Here) initiatives for iOS. Defined technical direction, coding and testing standards, and managed our CI/CD process. Notable projects include:Developed enterprise iOS frameworks and test harnesses leveraging always-on location tracking with venue, travel mode detection, region management, and location verification. Deployed in Yahoo! consumer applications.Super Bowl LIV. Onsite stadium installation and remote development for a 2.5D location-aware indoor mapping and routing experience via drop-in iOS/Android SDKs for the official Super Bowl app. If you wanted a beer closest to where you were sitting with the shortest line, our goal was to guide the way.iOS research and development for alternative indoor way-finding and mapping use cases leveraging ARKit, LiDAR, magnetic sensing, BLE, WiFi, and camera image recognition. Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) indoor mapping, planning, deployment, fleet scheduling and navigation in controlled environments. SLAM mapping in real world and simulated environments. Research and documentation to develop, test, manage dependencies, and deploy ROS2 solutions across a team of engineers in reusable Docker containers. Mentoring team members by launching Kerbals into orbit using ROS2 design patterns.Late 2020 - 2022 moved into the role of Research and Development working on a multitude of projects in the manufacturing, energy, 5G, simulation, and robotics space. The goal was to bring the latest trends and company initiatives from ideation to product demo on a quarterly cadence. These projects required many different languages for a given technology stack including C++, Java, Python, Javascript, Nodejs, and Typescript. In 2023 joined Verizon’s Unified Architectural group drafting architectural design documents (ADRs) for a variety of topics including PubSub brokers (Kafka, Pulsar, Thrift), Data Mesh, ML/AI, and LLM initiatives.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Contributing team member and team lead for Aetna’s consumer facing iOS application, later taking the role of iOS Platform Architect, overseeing multiple internal and consumer initiatives including iOS, HealthKit, and WatchOS applicationsCode reviews and mentoring. Maintaining Fastlane scripts for CI/CD with Apple Server (later Jenkins). Spearheaded our transition from Objective-C to Swift. Worked closely with the product team to maintain a quality monthly release schedule. Mobile security training focused on user data in a HIPAA environment.

Lead development and employee #1 on a half a dozen titles; growing our team to 12+ developers and artists. Leveraged the latest trends in freemium gaming including A/B testing, analytics, compulsion loops, server driven variables, and user segmentation. Notable releases:My Pet Zombie - half a million downloads in the first two months of release and one of the top 2.2% most downloaded applications on the App Store two years after release.EA Games/Hasbro's Bop It! - #1 top grossing iOS game in the UK; #8 in the US.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Javascript front end developer tasked with maintaining and updating their namesake online mapping tool providing customers a more modern look and feel for creating and logging their fitness journeys.Contributing to the iOS team providing a work around for always on GPS tracking before location aware applications running in the background was standard.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Released the first 3D sports title on the iOS App Store. Remotely collaborated with our Canadian producers and designers on a half a dozen 2D and Unity 3D titles from a diverse clientele including Viacom, EA Games, Zynga, and Hand Drawn Games.