Jamie Mcdaniel Email & Phone Number

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Making continuous improvements to my “Other Words” app.
• Studied SwiftUI via CS193p.
• Other projects.

• Worked as a contractor for ADT Security through TekSystems.
• Created Keychain and Local Network Swift Packages along with demos.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Designed, developed, and created “Other Words” — a networking game for iPhones and iPads. https://otherwords.app
• Used Sketch to design the screens and graphics.
• Learned the Network framework, Apple’s modern solution for TCP and UDP communications.
• Utilized the classes introduced in iOS 13: UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource and UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout.
• Implemented in-app purchases using StoreKit.
• Launched version 1.0 in July 2020 and continue to make improvements.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Took over as Lead iOS developer for a white-label app that was branded to 300+ schools.
• Implemented numerous architectural improvements in a very challenging Swift codebase. Examples of codebase problems include: extensive use of global variables, utilizing dictionaries as the model layer instead of.
• Rewrote several View Controllers in order to fix bugs and add new features.
• Rewrote the transport layer to use the Codable protocol. Suggested best practices and improvements regarding their RESTful api.
• Worked through Fastlane and AppStoreConnect issues on a weekly basis.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Designed and developed the "Cornhole Easy Score" app for iOS and watchOS.

Lexington, Kentucky

• Lead iOS developer for the “Haiku by BAF” app that controls Haiku ceiling fans, lights, and wall switches.
• Performed the work required to make the app universal – properly running on iPad (no longer a scaled up iPhone screen) in both portrait and landscape with support for Split View.
• Rewrote half the codebase from Objective-C to Swift.
• Significantly improved performance by using Instruments to identify slow code and memory issues.
• Fixed all Xcode warnings.
• Rearchitected the app to use dependency injection for View Controllers.

Lexington, KY

• Hired by Bananas Digital Agency to complete "What's Next", an iPad app for AARP's Life Reimagined Initiative.
• Hired by SightPlan to create an app for the multifamily real estate industry.
• Contracted by MWM Digital to develop an iPad app to promote the city of Houston, Texas for a global conference.

Lexington, KY

• Contracted by Parker Smith Software to work on an Adobe AIR desktop application for General Electric.
• Contracted by Tribune Technology to code a set of iPad apps for their broadcasting stations using Flex 4.6 and Adobe AIR.
• Hired as the primary Flex developer for SecureAlert, Inc. to take their TrackerMap Flex application to completion (December 2009 – June 2011)
• Worked with the Google Maps API for Flash, which was integral to the TrackerMap Flex application
• Used AlivePDF to programmatically create PDF reports client-side in the TrackerMap Flex application
• Optimized application memory and garbage collection using the Flash Builder Profiler

Soulforce is a national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) advocacy group. I overhauled the static website to use a content management system with a backend developed in Adobe Flex. I developed several banners using Adobe Flash, including interactive ones that were very highly successful on the fundraising pages.

Programmed industrial robots, vision systems, PLCs, conveyors, and other industrial automation equipment as part of a controls engineering firm providing custom solutions