Timothy Fischer Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

I help Jamf simplify the lives of IT administrators, providing a comprehensive device management solution for Apple technology including Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, and AppleTV. The applications I develop run on more than 20 million Mac and iOS devices.• Technical lead for our end-user client apps, providing design and architecture leadership, initiative planning and prioritization, and working cross-functionally to bring great new features and products to our portfolio• Collaborate with other leaders, product managers, and developers across our product portfolio• Author of the native JAMF Self Service applications for iOS and Mac. These apps allow end users to take an active role in configuring and maintaining their devices and computers, avoiding help desk tickets, associated wait times, and IT overhead• Originator and facilitator of our internal "Apple Natives" developers group for native client developers across our many development teams and locations. This facilitates collaboration for solving common issues and tech concerns, and provides a regular outlet for team members to share knowledge in a of specific skills across teams• Proponent and author of test automation suites at the Unit, UI, Integration, and System level using XCTest, PACT, Wiremock, and others• Development in SwiftUI/Swift/UIKit/AppKit/Objective-C• Mentor for engineers, new hires, and interns• Interview candidates for engineering and management positions on multiple teams

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As senior software engineer, I wrote new and maintained existing client apps which support Jamf's initiative to help companies succeed with Apple. During my time in this role, Jamf grew from managing under 4 million devices to nearly 20 million, with strong client portfolio apps helping to drive this growth. • Designed and implemented a new Jamf Self Service app for MacOS. This app allows end users to take an active role in configuring and maintaining their devices and computers, avoiding help desk tickets and associated wait times and IT overhead. The app was written as a modern Swift app with a full suite of automated unit and UI tests to ensure quality.• Developed a significant rewrite/refresh of Jamf's Self Service applications for iOS, which provides similar functionality on iPhone and iPad devices. Like the Mac version, this involved a new Swift-based UI as well as a full suite of automated tests.• Created a forum for native client developers across all teams and locations to regularly meet up and exchange ideas. This facilitated collaboration for solving common issues and tech concerns, and provided a regular outlet for team members to share knowledge in a of specific skills• Author of Relo, an iOS app which allowed users to transfer contacts, photos, videos, and application information from an Android or Windows device• Improved quality by introducing crash reporting and analytics tools, as well as processes to review issues uncovered and add them into the product backlog, leading to our products consistently having a crash free session rate approaching 100%• Wrote and maintained significant automated testing using XCTest and both internal and 3rd party mocking frameworks including WireMock and OCMock• Mentored new hires and interns • Cocoa development in Swift and Objective-C using Xcode• Interviewed candidates for developer and management positions with the team

Eden Prairie, Mn

• Designed, developed, and supported the world's premiere line-up of music notation products, including the flagship product Finale, the leader in its category. Responsible for iterative re-architecture of a legacy code base with a regular release cycle• Project Lead and Scrum Master for local and distributed employees• Author of Finale Songbook, an iPad version of Finale and MakeMusic's first mobile app. This product won a Tekne award from the Minnesota High Tech Association in November 2012• Architected and implemented major key product features which drove sustainable product revenue averaging $12 million annually and numerous product awards including Music and Sound Retailer's Best Book/Video Software, TI:ME 2014 Technology in Music Education Award, 25th Annual Music and Sound Awards Winner, and 2009 Musical Merchandise Review (MMR) Software Line of the Year • Organized and facilitated technical training sessions for MakeMusic's development teams• Designed, implemented, unit tested, and supported features for product's annual release cycle utilizing C++, Objective-C, Xcode, and Visual Studio on iOS, Macintosh, and Windows platforms• Led regular design and code review sessions to ensure code quality• Migrated a large code repository to a new version control system, resulting in a large efficiency gain and increased ability to embrace Agile methodologies

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led weekly small group lecture/recitation sessions for several undergraduate computer science courses. Graded all assignments and tests, and was largely responsible for determining final student grades. Held regular office hours to assist students with assignments and general questions about the course. Consistently received the highest evaluations from students as well as the faculty I worked with.

Minnetonka, Minnesota

Developed, implemented, and tested multiple user interface enhancements for a UNIX-based digital fingerprint recognition system written in C. Was solely responsible for developing a Python-based conversion system to which converted data from a proprietary file format to a NIST national standard format.

Waverly, Ia

Developed new features for internal systems at this life Insurance company, which now operates under the name "CUNA Life Insurance Company". Served on a corporate process improvement leadership team designed to identify, prioritize, and implement ideas for improving the efficiency of corporate policies and processes.

Waverly, Iowa

Supervised the college’s main student computing facility. Responsible for general operations of the lab, as well as overseeing twelve student lab consultants including scheduling shifts and ensuring overall performance. Served as an on-call help-desk consultant to assist users with questions regarding MacOS and Windows-based computers and a variety of software applications.

Rochester, Minnesota

Served an internship experience on a team developing enhancements to the AS/400 operating system. Was responsible for several system enhancements from the low-level design phase through implementation and release. Programming experience in PL/MI on IBM mainframes, and debugging experience on AS/400 systems.

Ms, Computer Science

4.0 Cumulative GPA Completed a Masters project, writing software which allowed users to enter music notation and edit performance.

Ba, Computer Science, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Wartburg College Concert Band, Kappa Mu Epsilon, Alpha Chi, Wartburg Computer Club, Student Activities, KWAR.