New York, New York, United States
Note to recruiters: am not currently looking for a change myself. but I am looking to hire. So feel free to reach out if you have android devs looking for work. Specializes in porting iOS apps to android and simultaneous development on both platforms. The key being to utilize the systems to there full potential adding features on each platform that may or may not be available to other, while keeping the same core functionality. Specialties: - Android development - iOS development - Database design - APIs - User experience
As engineering director, I helped create, stabilize, grow technology efforts such as our QA, Dev Ops practices to bring new service offerings to our client engagements. Also contributed to architecting, leading large scale projects and helping ongoing client relationships cross hurdles in achieving platform goals.
As QA Director here at Fuzz, I'm working at improving the overall quality of the products that we ship across all our teams. As part of this initiative, I've integrated the department more intimately with our overall process from start to finish. The team has been re-engineered with continual improvements to the team's technical capabilities removing the connotation that the QA team are simply manual testers looking for bugs and are instead engineers.
As the Android Director here at Fuzz, I've grown the Android team from a one man operation to team that is part our core service offerings that represents some of our major clients we have worked with. On the technology side I oversee every Android project to ensure we use are using the newest and most stable technologies as the Android ecosystem continues to evolve around us. This involves both expanding our internal libraries and evaluating open source ones to ensure consistency across projects while pushing boundaries. As well as deep dives into newer technologies and lectures on them to the wider company.
Part of the team that develop Maestro Music Trainer, an iPhone app that allows you to develop your ability to listen and read music. I was Lead Programmer.
Ported an android application to the iPhone. a few points of interest: made custom scrollviews for content and had to take care of resizing the content properly specifically when using a textview or webview with scroll enabled inside the scrollview. proper animation of keyboard for multiple textfields. Skills: Objective-C,Shark,Instruments, NSXMLParser with html, NSURLConnections async, custom scrollviews
worked on two iphone apps
lead developer working on several apps. Take part in the design process all the way to deployment.