Experience

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  Cox Automotive Inc.

  • Atlanta, Georgia

  • iOS Architect

    • Dec 2014 - Present
    • Atlanta, Georgia

    iOS architect in automotive industry – creating B2B, B2C and retail apps for the vehicle sales market • Support business units and development teams to build and deploy mobile frameworks and apps for the automotive industry • Design and build a Python module library to support mobile CICD on Azure • Implement and integrate SonarCube mobile security scanning of binaries in the CICD pipelines • Implement, customize and maintain the GitHub pull request workflow for development teams • Work with engineering managers to implement process improvements for mobile development teams • Lead transition from Jenkins to the Azure DevOps service • Provide iOS SME for mobile engineering managers and offshore mobile development teams • Develop and maintain the CICD environment for all mobile products • Work with app team leads to move from cocoa pods to swift packages • Design, develop and build camera functionality for iRecon app, including media storage • Work with third party vendors to incorporate 360-degree vehicle images • Prototype and build iOS frameworks including a VIN scanner, VehicleKit (core internal framework) • VAutoScan – Refactor original VIN scanner framework for a 50% reduction in memory foot print and a 15% performance improvement • Manage Cocoapod private spec repo for internal frameworksPublished apps include:– AutoTrader– Manheim Express – Cox Automotive Field Services – SnapLot – Provision – RideKleen – Dealer Connections – Serebro Cox Automotive Inc. – RPM NMAC/IFS

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  InComm

  • Greater Atlanta Area

  • Senior Mobile Software Engineer

    • Dec 2013 - Dec 2014
    • Greater Atlanta Area

    Senior engineer in mobile finance – creating financial apps for credit card users– Includes API integration and development– Lead developer of in-house financial SDK– Integration of auto layout into appsPublished apps include: – Jackson Hewitt Preferred Credit Card – Family Dollar Corporation Momentum Credit Card (US version)– Family Dollar Corporation Titanium Credit Card (Canadian version)– InComm MyVanilla Prepaid– MAX Insurance (internal only)

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  Consultant / Self-Employed

  • Greater Atlanta Area

  • iOS App Developer

    • Apr 2011 - Dec 2014
    • Greater Atlanta Area

    Wireframe, prototype, design and program mobile apps for the iPhone and iPad, for clients as well as personal projectsLead iOS developer for 2013 Chick-Fil-A Leadercast app, which included a social media experience where a fake “phone call” to all attendees’ smart phones triggered an audio-visual experience shared by 120,000 people in 100+ worldwide locations– Utilized “Experience Component” using audio triggers– Developed Phonegap plugin– See a YouTube video of the experience: youtube.com/watch?v=SY2SPztppDoDeveloped an iPhone app “Send Good Thoughts” from start to finish, including idea generation, wireframes and architecture, UI development, coding, collaborating with designer and illustrator, and publishing to experience the entire lifecycle of an iOS app

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  The Home Depot

  • Greater Atlanta Area

  • Mobile Software Engineer

    • Apr 2013 - Nov 2013
    • Greater Atlanta Area

    Engineer for The Home Depot Consumer app, including a prototype iPad app– Includes leading rewrite of mapping component of StoreFinder– Collaborate with UX to design native animations, overhaul architecture

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  Emory University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • iOS Developer and Software Engineer

    • 2009 - Mar 2013

    Sole engineer for a native iOS application — EULabs — developed for the Emory Molecular Lab. The app allows users to research molecular tests and their financial requirements to a patient in order to research best options. The app acts as a database for doctors and patients essentially.– Utilized Objective C, Xcode, Cocoa Frameworks and XML on the back-end– App did not go live, code reviews availableDevelop and maintain software for library applications, including Sirsi Symphony, Aleph, Primo, and SFX, among othersSupport for the libraries' ILS migration from Sirsi Symphony to Ex Libris Aleph and development of the expertise necessary to fully utilize Primo, the search component of the ILS– Computer languages: Objective-C, Java, C, Python, PHP– Markup languages: XML, HTML, XHTML– Frameworks: Xcode, Django, Zend Framework, Drupal– Databases: MySQL, Oracle

  • Software Engineer and Digital Technician

    • 2007 - 2009

    Development of an Objective-C disk-imaging management system to facilitate controlled replication of files within security requirements and implementation of a Mac desktop emulation for presentation purposes; Emulation work received critical acclaim in – New York Times nytimes.com/2010/03/16/books/16archive.html– Slashdot tech.slashdot.org/ story/10/04/23/210235/Emulation-For-Preservation-of-Digital-Artifacts– The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/04/snooping-through-salman-rushdies-computer/39260/Salman Rushdie Archives: Research options for archiving and exhibiting born-digital assets from 5 Mac computers: includes research of technical details of digital preservation– Assessment of hardware of the collection, research of retrieval techniques, catalogue over 18,000 files

  • Desktop Systems Support

    • 2004 - 2009

    Multitask in a variety of roles to support library staff and students including primary desktop support for Web-related issuesManagement of Macintosh infrastructure, imaging and server environmentsManagement of Symantec Antivirus for staff; noted for excellent customer service