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San Luis Obispo, California, United States

Tech lead and lead iOS developer on several quick service dining and coffee applications. Led development of fast growing coffee chain's loyalty app which reached #8 in the App Store's Food & Drink category with an average month active user base over 1 million. Dived in to other existing apps with long development histories, improving code quality and introducing SwiftUI where appropriate. Provided leadership and mentoring to junior developers to allow them to progress in their careers. Trusted by mobile leadership to define and architect new SDKs for next generation of native apps.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Joined a small team to continually update and improve the iOS and iPadOS applications used by tens of thousands of fitness, beauty and integrative health businesses. Integrated scheduling, retail, payment processing, reporting, and customer relationship management, allowed the entire business to be run from an iPhone or iPad. Immediately delivered fixes and features from complex, mixed Objective-C and Swift codebase. Helped deliver tentpole features, including dark mode support and multi-tasking, to legacy codebases while also selectively reducing technical debt.

San Luis Obispo, Ca

Client Software Lead• Responsible for development and delivery of client side software for client-server prepress and asset management solutions.• Rescued failed project by layering proprietary and open source to provide secure data transfer library resulting in 4x improvement between AWS regions.• Specified and implemented continuous integration for build and unit testing for 10 projects on 2 operating systems with 6 host applications.• Spearheaded company wide move to git source code control system utilizing git-flow branching system.• Provided scriptable applications to allow for AppleScript based solutions to complex workflow problems. Used both internally and by customers.• Continued to develop and refine the Adobe Creative Suite extensions and plug-ins.• Worked with technical sales and customers to refine products and solve actual real-world problems.

San Luis Obispo, Ca

Joined to assist with the development of client side software for a complex, industry leading, client-server asset management and prepress production system. Promoted to Client Software Lead taking ownership of design, development and delivery of all non-server software. Responsibilities included:• Designed and implemented in-context, fully integrated hybrid application combining HTML based presentation with native functionality allowing optimized asset access and use.• Developed multiple Adobe InDesign plug-ins in C++ to add document metadata to XMP packet.• Provided full text extraction, from multiple document formats, handling all Unicode character encodings and normalization forms.• Handled localization into six languages including CJK.• Implemented build system using two platforms and seven build environments to allow support of multiple plug-ins on multiple operating systems.• Shepherded client source code through multiple transitions including Mac OS to Windows, 32-bit to 64-bit, Carbon to Cocoa and many versions of host applications.• Spread use of subversion based source code control system throughout company.• Developed and maintained multiple QuarkXPress XTensions including presenting Cocoa user interface inside of QuarkXPress.

San Luis Obispo, Ca

PolyMorph delivered freeware and shareware software for the Macintosh, including the widely used Prestissimo. The quality and reach of these efforts led to a co-development project with The Iconfactory called iControl. Working closely with such a talented set of designers and developers provided insight into how to implement best of class usability and delightful design.PolyMorph also served as a business name used to provide contracting services to several clients after leaving DK&A. Contract software development for Xinet led to full time employment in May 1999.

San Diego, Ca

Worked as part of a team on next generation Trapping product for the prepress industry. Responsible for packaging core technology into a Mac OS product, using C++ and PowerPlant framework.

San Luis Obispo, Ca

Designed and implemented commercial Mac OS applications using CodeWarrior and PowerPlant framework. Led development of successful, scriptable, cross-platform administration package for Unix based server software which was a finalist for 1996 MacUser Eddy Award. Completed in-depth investigation of cross-platform technologies including Java and OpenSTEP.

Needham Market, Uk

Implemented Mac OS version of innovative multimedia search and retrieval system. Designed and implemented a lightweight C++ based application framework.

Diss, Norfolk, Uk

Contributed to development of high performance PostScript interpreter. Quickly advanced to become responsible for Mac OS version which sold over 3,000 copies. One of the principal designers of next generation product with special responsibility for user interface and communications.