Spearheaded the iOS and Android user experiences, building a mobile application that provides restaurant owners with invoice data and real-time visibility into costs. ⇛ Provided leadership to a team of three international engineers who performed asynchronous development, navigating the challenges of global time zones. ⇛ Used React Native for development, Jest for testing and Bitrise to add a CI/CD pipeline.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS✔ Expanded mobile capabilities from simplistic login and photo upload to include sales analytics, inventory, and a custom stockroom calculator keyboard. Included a dark mode.✔ Enhanced the photo experience by adding automatic flash, blur detection, library access, and auto-cropping, which used machine learning. ✔ Increased photo quality, eliminating time spent on processing surplus images. ✔ Included offline mode so restaurant employees could still use mobile app without a reliable internet connection.✔ Contributed to widgets for iOS and Android apps that fulfilled a customer request of displaying sales numbers on the home screen. ✔ Enabled push notifications and handled sync issues to avoid duplicated notifications on separate platforms.

- React Native TypeScript supporting iOS and AndroidMaintained and added features to a React Native window covering fabrication app that used Bluetooth to communicate with firmware, delivering the infrastructure that enabled the release of a quality assurance function as part of the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and capabilities. ⇛ Improved useability and flow by adding large buttons and aligning the appearance of hardware and software remotes.⇛ Modified React Native code to function on iOS, optimizing iOS functionality and Apple Bluetooth stack performance.

Focused on development, maintenance, and updates of the company’s applications for iOS mobile devices. Wrote clean, efficient code in Swift and React Native. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS✔ Drove the rebranding and user experience update of the Bluprint IOS video consumption app for version 2.0.✔ Transitioned from React Native to Swift, using storyboards with purely native components to rectify performance and responsiveness issues. ✔ Encouraged the team to incorporate UX principles into the newly rebranded design.✔ Delivered a video-on-demand app that housed custom videos for more than 1,000 classes and included a picture-in-picture feature. ✔ Led design and UX for the Bluprint Visionary iOS app, which used a user-provided photo to conduct a Google Vision API scan and identify relevant Bluprint classes related to the image. Built the user interface with Swift and storyboards. ✔ Designed and built Lottie loading animations to alleviate delayed response.✔ Released Visionary as an internal app, folded the code base into the primary app, and added functionality that enabled photo-based searches. ✔ Included a safeguard to disable the feature if an API request limit was reached.✔ Rebuilt the Craftsy iOS app in React Native, retaining its video player while adding a purchasing feature. ✔ Added close to 3,000 SKUs for purchase, including selection options for quantity, patterns, colors, and weights. Enabled product searches.

Focused on user interface designs and front-end development. ⇛ Amassed understanding of user needs and led discussions on user flows to optimize layouts, buttons, links, and other interactive components. ⇛ Created wireframes and prototypes, designed intuitive interfaces, and conducted usability testing. Liaised between design and development teams. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS✔ Used Sketch to design user interfaces for Craftsy AppleTV and Apple Watch apps. Pitched features that Apple included in its first iteration of the Apple Watch.✔ Developed an Apple TV app in two weeks, fulfilling Apple’s request. ✔ Built a remote control that paused web browsers and enabled users to add voice notes or bookmarks.✔ Added a feature to Apple TV that displayed comments on a companion phone or tablet rather than the TV.✔ Designed and built the front-end UI for the Craftsy Unlimited Roku Channel using BrightScript and SceneGraph. ✔ Enabled Craftsy to capitalize on a huge new Roku market.✔ Customized Roku development beyond the provided template.

Contributed to development of the company’s website and mobile apps. ⇛ Hired as the 15th employee of this startup that provided luxury vacation experiences to high-end clients.⇛ Built a UI that displayed a 90-day calendar of booked and open dates. Handled the digital addition of amenities.⇛ Designed and implemented inspiredgiving.com for the company’s charitable branch.

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