Work Experience

Advenio, Inc.

Founder, CEO, Chief Architect — 1999-present: Software architect and developer of successful macOS and iOS products MacGourmet and SQLGrinder as well as new, unreleased products for macOS and iOS. (Full time role as independent software developer from 2005 to 2014)

• App Development

  Design, architect, develop and support macOS and iOS products incorporating extensive use of Cocoa, WebKit, UIKit, Foundation, AppKit, CoreData, Quartz and CloudKit frameworks using Objective-C and Swift.

• User Interface Design

  Responsible for user interface design and human factors engineering of all products.

• Full Stack

  Designed and maintained corporate web site and backend infrastructures.

Work Experience — cont.

Bank of America

Senior Software Engineer — 2020-present: Responsible for developing features for the Bank of America suite of native iOS apps.

• Development

  Participates in full app development life cycle: concept, architecture/design, build, deploy and test and release to app store.

• Design

  Ensures selected solutions are technically and operationally feasible, work with product teams on new product ideas and strategy, translate requirements created by functional analysts into architecture.

• Mentor

  Leads, trains, guides and mentors other developers on the team.

Work Experience — cont.

Real Capital Analytics

Senior Software Engineer — 2017-2019: Was full-stack developer working primarily on an internal tool comprised of a web user interface built with Angular, and a middle-tier proxy server that used Elasticsearch to query databases containing terabytes of real estate data.

• Front-End Development

  Designed, architected and developed a web front-end using Angular and REST services.

• Middle-Tier

  Designed and implemented typescript middle-tier that communicated with Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL back-end and provided REST services to the front-end.

• Server

  Wrote Elasticsearch and SQL indexes and queries used to provide data to the middle-tier.

Work Experience — cont.

Nasuni Corp.

Principal Software Engineer — 2015-2017: Principal developer of macOS and iOS software clients for Nasuni’s archival cloud filer. Software clients allowed users to browse and upload/download data to and from the Nasuni cloud.

• Existing Client iOS

  Accomplishments included taking ownership of existing iOS 5 app and completely redoing and updating the user interface and components to iOS 9-iOS 10

• macOS Client

  Developed the macOS version of a new cross-platform cloud-based desktop application.

• C# .Net Core

  Worked on cross-platform C# .Net Core service used to communicate with the Nasuni cloud.

• Founder, CEO, Chief Architect, Advenio, Inc.

  2005-2014 — Software architect and developer of successful macOS and iOS products MacGourmet and SQLGrinder. (Full time)

• macOS Consultant, Archivas, Inc.

  2004-2005 — Developed software infrastructure for a software-based file storage system, ported storage system to Mac OS X from Linux.

• Senior Software Engineer, Skelmir, LLC

  2003-2004 — Responsible for adding features to the Skelmir clean-room Java Development Kit, and porting the Skelmir JVM to new embedded devices.

• Senior Software Engineer, MeetingMaker, Inc.

  2001-2003 — Tasked with implementing web services for the Meeting Maker product using Java. Tasks included building, maintaining and expanding an all-Java API used to communicate with the Meeting Maker server. Additionally, designed and built a Java/XML-based web service for synchronizing PDAs to Meeting Maker servers.

• Principal Software Engineer, Abuzz, Inc.

  1998-2001 — Responsible for the design, implementation and documentation of an optimized, high performance API used by the presentation layer of the Abuzz website. This API is designed to maximize performance and minimize database load when building all of the JSPs displayed on the site.

• Software Engineer III, Cabletron Systems, Inc.

  1997-1998 — Responsible for the design, implementation and usability studies for a network management auto-discovery and modeling system (ADaMS) written entirely in Java.

• Sr. Software Developer, Natural Intelligence, Inc.

  1993-1997 — Developer: Roaster, the first Java development environment for the Macintosh: Implemented and tested various components of Macintosh Java development environment. Database Consultant: Technical lead and primary client contact: Fortune Magazine, Bausch & Lomb.

• Software Engineer/QA, Cabletron Systems, Inc.

  1992-1993 — Worked on quality assurance and testing for the Spectrum Network Management package.

• Software Languages

  • Objective-C (20 years)
  • Swift (4 years)
  • SQL (20+ years)
  • Java (10 years)
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • JavaScript

• Platforms

  • macOS (20 years)
  • iOS (11 years)

• Specialties

  • Application development
  • User interface design
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Database architecture

• Frameworks

  • AppKit
  • UIKit
  • SwiftUI
  • CoreData
  • CloudKit

• University of New Hampshire

  BS in Computer Science