Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Missouri · On-site

• My LLC where I ship best-in-class apps to Apple platforms.

Nov 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Sep 2015 – Jan 2024 · 8 yrs 4 mos

• Develop and maintain our native apps with new features, fixes and tweaks to ensure it's best in class on iOS. My work contributed to our mobile app winning a Webby Award for best practices in 2018 (winning over the 13,000 other entries across 70 countries) and multiple App Store features.
• Integrate key iOS technologies throughout the experience such as 3D Touch, drag and drop, extension APIs and more.
• Regularly review the human interface guidelines for iOS, and ensure Buffer for iOS follows them.
• Keep a key focus on making the app as accessible and usable for any and everyone.
• Use, maintain and contribute to popular open source iOS libraries, such as Texture (formerly known as AsyncDisplayKit) and IGListKit.
• Evaluate and execute on key architectural decisions to make the app stable and easy to work with (i.e. immutable models, M.V.C the right way, etc.).
• Constantly reiterating and rolling out new features to make sure the app is stable and enjoyable to use.

Aug 2014 – Dec 2020 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Ozark, MO

• Spend Stack, and Dreaming in Binary, were acquired in December 2020.
• Dreaming In Binary LLC was own business that I primarily used as a creative outlet to pursue development of iOS apps and video games. I released a finance app called Spend Stack to critical and commercial acclaim. It was frequently top paid in the charts, featured from Apple in the App Store and was in the in-store demo program and more.

Apr 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Ozark, MO

• Work with product owners to design and develop new functionality for our iOS application that interfaces with our main health care product, Vision.
• Implement modern iOS APIs and technology into our iOS application. Converted legacy code to use auto layout, adaptive design, and more.
• Converted existing code to make it interoperable with Swift.
• Add, edit, and maintain existing REST based web services.
• Add, edit, and maintain existing SQL queries.
• Perform code reviews from other developers.

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos · Ozark, MO

• Worked primarily in ASP/VB.NET to implement new functionality within an existing codebase, while heavily incorporating SQL to manipulate and retrieve data as needed.
• Working with Xcode/Objective-C, added new features and enhancements for a natively written universal iOS application. Interfaced with business logic using REST-based service calls.

Nov 2012 – May 2013 · 6 mos · Springfield-Branson, Missouri Area

• I designed and developed full business solutions for the school. It ranged from internal software the school might need, web apps to help instructors better schedule classes, etc.