SUMMARY

Autodidactic iOS engineer with a unique perspective shaped by a decade of entrepreneurship and a stretch as a world-ranked professional MMA athlete. Equipped with grit, initiative, adaptability, and a relentless pursuit of excellence, I love to squash bugs and dig deep into programming problems.

EXPERIENCE

Autodesk — iOS Software Engineer

Nov 2022 - Feb 2024, Remote, Portland, OR

  • Engineered features, fixed bugs, and wrote tests for the AutoCAD mobile app in Swift/ Objective-C, which deployed to over 25 million users.

  • Debugged internal App Store release bot, refactored it to use modern APIs and work as standalone script/ Slack bot, and added documentation.

  • Took on numerous security enhancements, including writing a script to batch delete PII from our feature flag management tool and educating my team about the same. Data privacy advocate.

  • Collaborated cross-functionally in a remote environment to ensure projects were implemented efficiently and securely.

Self — Independent iOS Engineer

Sept 2019 - Present, Portland, OR

  • Released my app Barbell Math to the App Store in 2021.

  • Design, develop, debug, and test mobile apps. Make rich use of the iOS SDK, modern iOS architecture (including MVVM and MVC), Apple’s design principles, and RESTful APIs. Maintain projects publicly on GitHub.

  • Automate with Python and shell scripting, including this recent contribution which automates the process of releasing package updates to PyPi and GitHub for an open-source Python library.

  • Build UIs with SwiftUI, Storyboards, and programmatically with UIKit.

Silverpine Software — Software Engineer

Jan 2022 - July 2022, Remote, Portland, OR

  • Developed and tested iOS apps for a variety of clients, including a social music platform and audio player, a healthcare app, and a lockbox WatchOS app.

  • Fixed bugs across multiple iOS platforms while tracking them in Jira.

  • Worked on accessibility feature support like dynamic text sizing and dark mode compatibility.

Planet Nine — iOS Intern

Aug 2021 - Nov 2021, Portland, OR

  • Made updates to the PN CocoaPod, application and API documentation.

Bold & Badass Fitness — Owner

Dec 2014 - May 2021, Portland, OR

  • Grew my powerlifting and personal training gym to over 120 members while managing and training a staff of six.

  • Made product decisions to continually iterate offerings according to the most current data. Kept analytics to improve client retention, reduce spending, and bring in new members.

  • Handled workout programming, sales and marketing, website maintenance, bookkeeping and finances, and user experience.

  • Managed payments, payment processing, and memberships.

  • Coordinated pandemic changeover from in-person to virtual services.

EDUCATION

Reed College / B.A. Comparative Religion May 2010, Portland, OR

SKILLS

Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Python, Bash/ Unix, Jira, Networking (RESTful APIs, JSON), Unit Testing, Design Patterns, iOS Lifecycle, App Architecture, Agile, Version Control with Git/ GitHub, Debugging, Automation, Sales, Public Speaking