Summary:

Experience:

• Software Engineer, Swift Standard Library Team: Apple, Inc., October 2018 to present

  • Current position

• Software Engineer, Cocoa Team: Apple, Inc., June 2009 to October 2018

  • Maintained essential operating system components used by nearly all Apple products
  • Made major improvements while maintaining very-long-term (20+ year) compatibility and consistency guarantees
  • Led significant features including automatic app termination, cloud preferences, and systemwide performance improvements

• Software Engineer: Jive Software, January 2008 to August 2008

  • Project lead for SparkWeb, worked on Openfire and Clearspace
  • Used C, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, Bash, Ant, Freemarker, JSP, HTML, Actionscript, MXML, and CSS

• Engineering Intern: Jive Software, December 2006 to January 2008

  • Worked with a variety of languages and APIs, some of them learned on the spot as needed for projects.
  • Integrated web technologies into both web-based and client-side applications.

• WebKit Contributor, Fall 2006 to 2009

  • Rapidly improved JavaScript, DOM, C++, and XPath knowledge as needed to add features.
  • Implemented getElementsByClassName, querySelector, and querySelectorAll in collaboration with Sam Weinig, speeding up many common JavaScript libraries

• Google Summer of Code Mentor (Adium), Summer 2006, 2007, and 2008

  • Worked closely with students to develop a new user interface element for use in many Mac OS X applications, improve group chat support in Adium, and implement an open source version of Apple's Data Detectors.
  • Strong participation in the student application process by answering student questions, critiquing applications, and suggesting projects to apply for

• Founded and ran Eastmoreland Computing, Summer 2005 to Fall 2006

  • Macintosh tech support, training, setup, repair, and graphic design assistance

• Developer: Adium, Winter 2005 to June 29th 2009

  • Several hundred thousand users
  • Worked with a team spanning multiple countries
  • Apple Design Awards special mention
  • Collaborated with multiple related projects including Pidgin, Kopete, Telepathy, Sparkle, and ChatKit

• Lead Developer: Myko Games, Fall 2004 to April 2005

  • Flexible application-agnostic plugin system, written in Objective-C using Cocoa
  • Used instant messaging applications for presence information and NAT traversal

• Lead Developer: Orbital, 2003 to 2004

  • Planetary orbit simulator for schools
  • Used hallway usability tests to target user interface design at average high school students

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