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Palo Alto, CA

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

iOS development for a mid-sized New York-based media company. XCode/objective-C.https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/dining/wine-vinous-app-smartphone.html

Menlo Park, CA

Client-facing app for video collages. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memery/id1062035088?ls=1&mt=8Three member engineering team.

San Francisco Bay Area

Acquired by Dropbox. Writing code in Xamarin Studio (a thin wrapper of XCode that allows you to write code in C#, take advantage of the BCL in.NET and the MonoTouch Runtime) for both iOS and Android products that focus on voice, chat, and SMS/MMS in a corporate environment. Engineering team was seven total. We also have a web client front-end and a web.

Oak Park, IL

Lead iOS developer. XCode/Objectve-C. Worked hand-in-hand with a talented visual design/UX team and two talented Android developers. The rest of the product team, 12 or so, were atomized and scattered across the globe; four continents and about seven time zones. https://www.nowsecure.com/

Greater Chicago Area

FastDraw and FastDraw Pro. We reached #8 on the AppStore for iPad Sports Apps. This placed us alongside "Fox Sports" and "ESPN." I was the only and principal mobile developer (later joined by a few friends.) FastDraw Pro is used by all 30 NBA teams and more than 600+ Division A/AA men's and women's basketball teams. The entire thing was written "from.

Magnificent Mile, Downtown Chicago

This was my "solepreneurship" company. Clients included lightbank, the Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center and many seed-funded or Series A companies in the Chicagoland area. As well as, through a partnership, different companies based in Los Angeles; typically in the entertainment industry.

Hyde Park, Chicago

We worked in support of epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and others of the department to create what later were called, in popular parlance, "minimum viable products". Heavy numerical analysis work on very large sets of data. We utilized a full MSDN stack for almost every project. SQL Server, ADO.NET, ASP.NET were some of the technologies. Almost all of.

Loop, Chicago

I handled back-end data analysis and design for a very large scale software system which was responsible for retrieving and storing highly sensitive financial information for millions of clients. We used a full Microsoft stack. SQL Server, ASP.NET, C#, SSRS, et cetera. I was primarily responsible for the back-end.

Urbana, IL

We were using what were experimental protocols (SIP, RSVP, etc) and designing them straight from RFCs to compete against what was then a little known product, Skype. Our system was for the enterprise user and therefore had to be built from the ground-up with extremely tight security and real-time constraints in mind. Funding dried up. We utilized Microsoft.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Worked under Professor Ralph Johnson to create cost-effective data visualization tools for large Chicagoland area corporations who were dealing with antiquated software and had data mining needs. We utilized VisualAge for Java, Swing, AWT, a lot of Java libraries no longer in popular use.

Urbana, IL

I had to bring to reality the work of many Ph.D. students and professors. They came up with the ideas and concepts. I had to figure out how to implement them. I typically wrote projects in C++, C and Scheme before focusing exclusively on Java implementations. Java was seen as a panacea back then.

B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics, 3.57/4.00

Activities and Societies: I concentrated mainly on my coursework and my job at the Beckman Institute Computer Languages Computer Language.

Mcs (Master'S Computer Science), Computer Science

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