Application Development Consultant
Waterloo, Ontario, Ca
* Wrote many sample applications to show how to use specific parts of the BlackBerry platform, or to act as drop-in libraries to make common or difficult development tasks easier. Highlights include a number of examples on the Camera, Barcode and PIM APIs.* Wrote CloudyPics, an application that functioned as the enterprise camera application for many business, in addition to powering a series of technical blog posts explaining every detail of the Cascades Camera API. * See http://bit.ly/CloudyPicsSample* Created and delivered technical presentations all over the world, in places like Canada, the United States, Europe, Russia, Thailand, India, and all over South America. Sessions ranged from one hour advanced deep dives into specific parts of the BlackBerry platform to day-long overviews of the entire platform to hundreds of developers.* Provided developer support to external partners, both in high-value one-to-one technical relationships with top partners and carriers, and though one-to-many resources like the forums, Twitter, and the Developer Issue Tracker. Specific named partners include: * Slacker Radio * Verizon BUA+ Contacts * Bell TV * Rogers TV * 360 Panorama * Paper Camera* Took ownership of the public facing BlackBerry Developer Issue Tracker, built a process for the team to follow, and created a reporting system to let us actually see what was going on. Ensured the team's queue of issues stayed consistently well under our target of 20.* Wrote developer blog posts on a variety of subjects, including deep technical discussions and thought leadership pieces. * Highlights: http://bit.ly/PaulBernhardt * All posts: http://devblog.blackberry.com/author/paulbe1/