I am the sole proprietor of my own contracting business. I am currently working for a number of clients on projects encompassing mobile application development, services architecture and mobile business strategies.

Responsible for developing and productizing new projects and initiatives. Recently this has included the Inman Innovation award-winning Doorsteps Swipe iOS application. Doorsteps Swipe was also featured on the App Store on several occasions as Best New App. I wrote the Swipe application - including the middle tier and the iOS application code - completely on my own, working with a product and design team in New York City. I maintain a relationship with Apple’s iOS evangelist and app marketing personal, and regularly meet with these folks on Apple’s campus to give product demos and discuss new product ideas and use-cases.I am currently working on several new projects within the real-estate application space.

Responsible for the development and delivery of all mobile products at Move. Primarily, this constitutes the Realtor.com product for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7. At Move, I re-organized the engineering team in order to bring the right talent and skills to the job. As architect, I was responsible for defining and implementing a re-factoring plan for an existing iOS codebase that was originally designed as “demoware”, and had become unmaintainable and un-sustainable. Additionally, I designed and implemented major new features and functionality, including a “sketch-a-search” feature for defining polygonal search regions on a map surface; smart location manager that optimizes the use of device GPS without sacrificing device battery performance; network operation manager to isolate client code from the complexities of handling asynchronous network activity; and of course lots of product UI. Realtor.com has been downloaded more than 10 million times, and has been featured by Apple, Google and Microsoft in the App Store, Android Market and Zune Marketplace, respectively.Defined, designed and implemented Move’s Rentals application utilizing latest iOS technologies and UI affordances. The Rentals app was also featured as New and Noteworthy on the App Store.Designed and implemented service infrastructure for Realtor.com and Rentals app back end and middleware. Defined all external system APIs.As product architect, I am responsible for mobile strategy, roadmaps, release cycles, and platform prioritization. I help define and support marketing strategies and initiatives. I also work closely with back-end services teams to help define REST service APIs and functionality. Additionally, I worked closely with Microsoft on Windows Phone 7 launch, including presenting and demoing our product at several Microsoft-sponsored Windows Phone 7 launch events.

Defined the ground-up product requirements, user experience goals and technical specifications for Adobe’s first consumer web service - Photoshop.com. Responsibilities included defining feature requirements and specifications; developing multi-release product and technology roadmap; identification of strategic 3rd-party service and technology partners, and integration plans; providing technical and business due-diligence for M&A activities; working with Adobe’s legal team to develop SaaS polices and guidelines for conformance to industry best-practices around user-generated content; partnered with marketing on initiatives to drive customer acquisition, resulting in exceeding goal of 1 million customers in first 3 quarters post release.Currently leading all facets of Adobe’s mobile product line for Digital Imaging, including Photoshop.com Mobile - with over 6.5 million downloads in first 3 months after release. Responsibilities include defining mobile roadmap and strategy for iPhone and Android platforms, PR and social media coordination, defining KPIs, software engineering, partner and vendor relations, analytics, copywriting, marketing materials, and internal evangelism.

Helped define the long- and mid-term technology and architectural plans for Adobe’s DI suite of products, resulting in increased code sharing between teams and higher quality products due to multiple teams helping fix and maintain key components. This included working with other architects to align behind common goals and shared technologies. Helped organize an Adobe-wide architect council as a forum for defining and sharing best-practices and commonality around architectural goals.Additional responsibilities included partnering with business team to develop multi-year technology roadmaps to align with product roadmap; defining and helping to implement overall architecture for the Photoshop Elements suite of products and services; acting in role of primary liaison between product management, user experience and engineering to help translate feature and user experience goals into technology and implementation plans; working with engineers to ensure continued integrity of codebase; developing technical specifications and requirements for major system components and product features; mentoring and sponsoring engineers for technical and career growth.

Managed distributed engineering team for Photoshop Elements suite of products:- Helped integrate existing Adobe team and technologies with a newly acquired company.- Led re-write of product user interface to better appeal to consumer customer.- Led product localization technology re-architecture which enabled product team to more easily release multiple languages simultaneously (a first for Adobe).- Defined and led performance optimization strategy which resulted in 70 percent reduction in start-up time, addressing one of the most common customer complaints.These actions resulted in PC magazine’s Best-in-Category award for the product.

Engineering Lead for Photoshop Elements. Drove technical and overall architectural structure for a new consumer/professional digital image editing product, leading an eight-man engineering team. Had ultimate responsibility for all engineering aspects of project, and ensured that all engineering deliverables and milestones were met. Also provided engineering assistance with Photoshop, the industry-leading image editing application.Project Engineering Lead for powerful and general-purpose image editing libraries used by various Adobe products. Defined engineering goals and schedules; worked with client apps to define features and interoperability issues.
Developed market leading consumer image editing application for Windows and Mac within a team environment; developed Photoshop special effects and file format plug-ins.
Products: Photoshop Elements, Photoshop 6.0, PhotoDeluxe 2.0, PhotoDeluxe 3.0, PhotoDeluxe Business Edition, Adobe ActiveShare, Kodak Picture CD, various plug-ins

Lead Windows/Mac engineer for Photoshop plug-ins and stand-alone graphics effects applications; developed class library for plug-in and application core and UI; developed 3D graphics effects program both as a stand-alone application and a Photoshop filter plug-in.
Products: TypeCaster, Paint Alchemy

Lead Macintosh engineer for Advanced Development.- Developed full-featured C++ cross-platform class library for Mac and Windows.- Developed Mayo Clinic series of interactive Health CDs.- Developed multimedia player application for the MediaVerse authoring environment.- Developed Interactive Textbook, games and simulations for MacGraw-Hill Publishing.- Ported existing Windows code to the Mac for various projects.- Responsible for all phases of application development for Macintosh products, including scheduling, estimates, task assignments, application and library design and implementation.
Products: Mayo Clinic Family Healthbook; Opthamology Interactive; Biology- The Dynamics of Life

Responsible for developing testing tools and stand-alone applications for internal use; writing and designing installation tools for various shipping products; writing code resources and external plug-ins for various shipping products. Twice awarded the Aldus Century Club award for excellence in job performance and for development of testing tools.