Career
Owner/Developer, Second Gear LLC - 2006 - Present
Built popular iPhone Web application, PocketTweets, that allowed users to use their Twitter account from their iPhone. Released Today: a Mac OS X event and task management utility built on the CalendarStore framework. Released Elements, the first text editor for iOS to support Dropbox syncing and Markdown editing. Organized Indie+Relief, a gathering of 140 Mac & iPhone developers who pledged to donate one day’s sales to Haitian earthquake relief charities. Raised $143,872.
Education
Bachelor Of Science, Computer & Information Technology - Purdue University (2006)
Technical Skills
Mac OS X development using Cocoa application frameworks. Experienced with Core Data, CalendarStore, Bindings and Core Animation.
iPhone development using the iOS SDK. Experienced with Core Data, EventKit, iAd and concurrency through NSOperation.
A keen eye for crafting great user experiences for the Mac, iOS, and other mobile platforms.
Publications
- Rails Solutions: Rails Made Easy. ISBN: 1590597524. Apress.
- Getting StartED With Mac OS X Leopard. ISBN: 1590598377. Apress.
- Weekly columnist for Evansville Courier & Press since June 2007.
- Host of Plugged In on 88.3 WNIN-FM since September 2008.
Speaking
- Spoke at 360|iDev Austin, November 2010 — Selling Your iPhone Apps To A Third-Party
- Spoke at 360|MacDev Denver, December 2010 — Integrating The Social In Your Mac Apps
- Spoke at 360|iDev Denver, September 2011 — Integrating ^Blocks Into Your Mac & iOS App
Mac OS X Projects
Today - Mac OS X application (2008) Sole developer. Mac application that integrates with system’s calendaring framework to show customers a daily overview of their scheduled events and tasks. Uses Core Animation, CalendarStore framework, and bindings. Awarded Apple Staff Pick January 2011.
iPhone Projects
Elements - Universal iOS application (2010) Sole Developer. iOS application that allows customers to write, preview and publish their Markdown or plain text files. All data syncs to Dropbox using custom syncing framework powered by Dropbox SDK and NSOperationQueues. Supports publishing to Tumblr, Facebook, and Evernote. Named Macworld’s text editor of the year 2010 and one of Gizmodo’s best iPad apps of 2010.
MarkdownMail - Universal iOS application (2010) Sole developer. Mini application using iOS SDK to allow users to compose and send HTML emails on their iPhone or iPad using the popular Markdown markup syntax.