Résumé
Owner/Developer, Second Gear LLC - 2006 - Present
Developed custom Ruby on Rails Web applications for small businesses. Built popular iPhone Web application, PocketTweets, that allowed users to use their Twitter account from their iPhone. Released Today: a Mac OS X Leopard event management utility built on Leopard’s CalendarStore framework. Organized Indie+Relief, a gathering of 140 Mac & iPhone developers who pledged to donate one day’ss sales to Haitian earthquake relief charities.
Education
Bachelor Of Science, Computer & Information Technology - Purdue University (2006)
Technical Skills
Mac OS X Software development using Cocoa application framework. Scripting via AppleScript or RubyOSA. Experienced with Core Data, CalendarStore, Cocoa Bindings, and Core Animation.
iPhone development using either the iPhone SDK or developing Web-based iPhone applications with HTML, CSS and Javascript. Experienced with iPhone OS 3.0 features such as Core Data, Undo support, Map Kit and Media Player frameworks.
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.
Mac OS X Projects
Check Off - Mac OS X application (2003) Co-developer. Menu-bar based application that allows for easy management of to-do items. Has ability to label items, group in folders and export to iPod. Won scholarship to 2004 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference for work on application.
Today - Mac OS X application (2008) Sole developer. Mac OS X desktop application that integrates with system’s calendar store to show users a daily overview of their scheduled events and tasks. Uses Core Animation, CalendarStore framework, and Objective-C 2.0.
iPhone Projects
FitnessTrack - iPhone Native application (2009) Sole developer. Native iPhone application designed to keep track of your health & fitness goals at the gym. Track weights, cardio sessions and weight loss goals. Uses iPhone SDK. Sold to BitBQ in October 2009.
Emergency Information - iPhone Native application (2009) Sole developer. Mini application using iPhone SDK to allow users to have their most in case of emergency information at their fingertips. Uses AddressBook framework. Sold to BitBQ in October 2009.
PocketTweets - iPhone Web application (2007 - 2009) Sole developer. Twitter client designed exclusively for WebKit-based phones such as Apple’s iPhones. Powered by Ruby on Rails.
