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Big Nerd Ranch

iPhone and iPad Development at About Objects

ANSI C and Objective-C Programming at About Objects

Client-Side Web Programming at O'Reilly School of Technology

DeVry University Online

Erie Community College

Arizona Western College

EV Adventurer  -  Active Investor

✓ Founded ScottEG LLC to manage and grow a specialized business focused on creating innovative drumming apps, including Snare Essentials, Rudimentia, and Rudiments 101.
✓ Collaborate with professional drummers to develop educational apps featuring their exercises and other instructional content, and leverage their social media platforms to promote the apps, ensuring a broader reach and engagement.
✓ Utilize advanced audio processing and MIDI frameworks to deliver high-quality, responsive, and immersive drumming experiences in the apps.
✓ Spearhead all aspects of the business, from app development and design to marketing and customer engagement, while continuously refining and improving the products based on user feedback.
✓ Continually innovate within the drumming app space to provide state-of-the-art solutions that enhance the practice and performance of drummers.

ScottEG LLC

Founder & CEO

✓ Curated and authored comprehensive technical documentation and created innovative sample code and projects for a wide range of Apple SDKs, including iOS, macOS, and tvOS, as well as frameworks like SwiftUI, Swift Data, Core Location, Core Data, MapKit, Core ML, and AVFoundation.
 Updated documentation and sample code for Core Data to ensure alignment with the latest Swift best practices.
✓ Worked extensively on specialized frameworks, including Platform SSO and MDM, developing detailed documentation that guided developers through complex integrations such as single sign-on (SSO) and mobile device management.
✓ Contributed to Apple’s AI-powered coding assistant by crafting idiomatic code examples and addressing common developer questions across various frameworks.
✓ Collaborated with Apple engineers to ensure technical accuracy and adherence to best practices in documentation and sample projects.

Apple

Software Engineer, Developer Publications

✓ Provided architectural guidance and leadership across multiple iOS teams, ensuring alignment with best practices and overall technical strategy.
✓ Developed and authored technical documentation for a new error handling framework in Swift/SwiftUI. This framework centralized error management across the app, delivering appropriate user notices and integrating seamlessly with an internal error reporting system for engineering teams.
✓ Streamlined the code review process, improving efficiency and consistency across teams.
✓ Conducted training sessions to mentor engineering teams on idiomatic Swift, SwiftUI, and RxSwift development, enhancing the overall skill level and code quality within the organization.

Wayfair

iOS Architect / Staff Engineer

✓ Solely developed Datadog's flagship iOS app using RxSwift, collaborating closely with product and design teams to deliver a high-quality, feature-rich app.
✓ The iOS app was highly praised at Datadog's DASH conference, receiving the top score in a client survey on the most anticipated announcements and upcoming features.
✓ Collaborated with the Android team during the development of the Android version using RxKotlin, providing support, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring feature parity between the iOS and Android apps.
✓ Implemented high-performance charting using SciChart, working directly with the SciChart team to identify and resolve issues, and contributed to the improvement of their SDK.

Datadog

Senior iOS Mobile Engineer

iOS App Developer (contractor)

✓ Inherited and worked on revitalizing an aging Objective-C codebase developed by an external agency, addressing extensive deprecated code, hundreds of warnings, and compile issues to stabilize the app.
✓ Engaged in multiple consultations with the external development agency to discuss the transition of the project in-house, diagnose critical issues, and strategize next steps.
✓ Advocated for the development of a new app using Swift and the latest frameworks, promoting the modernization of the app’s architecture and performance improvements before departing from the company.
✓ Collaborated with team members at Arthrex’s headquarters in Naples, FL, to develop a standardized design system for all of Arthrex’s mobile apps, ensuring consistency in UI and UX across platforms.
✓ Contributed to brainstorming sessions focused on expanding the app’s scope to cover the entire patient journey—from diagnosis to rehabilitation—positioning Arthrex to engage directly with patients and explore new market opportunities.
✓ The app, extensively used in operating rooms, served as an educational and instructional tool for surgeons, reinforcing Arthrex’s commitment to improving surgical outcomes through technology.

Arthrex

Sr. Mobile Developer (iOS)

Created course focused on RxSwift and iOS app development, providing in-depth instruction for developers of all levels.

Udemy

Author

✓ Initially recruited for an individual contributor role, but quickly transitioned to manage the global iOS infrastructure team, overseeing 12 engineers distributed across the globe, including both full-time employees and staff augmentation contractors.
✓ Inherited an app with a 2 1/2 star rating on the App Store, primarily due to improper usage of RxSwift. Leveraged industry-recognized expertise in RxSwift to train the team, systematically reducing issues and raising the app’s rating to 4 1/2 stars.
✓ Restructured the Jira board to better prioritize issues alongside new features, enabling a balanced approach to problem resolution and feature development.
✓ Managed the Jenkins CI server, ensuring continuous integration processes were smooth and efficient, contributing to higher code quality and faster deployment cycles.
✓ Addressed a critical QA bottleneck by instituting a calendar-based code review system, pairing developers for scheduled review sessions, which enhanced collaboration and significantly reduced the number of issues reaching QA.
✓ Collaborated with the design team to implement PaintCode, streamlining the creation of pixel-perfect assets and eliminating the back-and-forth between design and engineering, thus improving efficiency and accuracy in the app’s visual design.
✓ The infrastructure team was central to the app’s development, with responsibilities spanning across a large, module-based engineering organization using the "Spotify model."
✓ Successfully presented to the G12 engineering leadership at a quarterly planning meeting, advocating for the development of a new version of the app to eliminate technical debt and prepare for the next-generation user experience, which was later approved and implemented.

The Weather Company, an IBM Business

Mobile Software Engineering Manager (iOS)

✓ Initially brought in to present on Swift-based native iOS app development to a team of C# server-side engineers who were encountering significant challenges with Xamarin.
✓ The presentation led to the creation of a new mobile team, which I was hired to lead. I mentored two engineers in Swift iOS development, guiding them through the transition from server-side development to mobile app engineering. One of these engineers later advanced to a senior iOS engineer role.
✓ Led the development of a revolutionary EHR app, collaborating closely with product and design teams to rethink and redefine how electronic health records were managed on mobile platforms. Worked with the Android development team to maintain feature parity across platforms.
✓ Focused on creating a robust, user-friendly solution that streamlined EHR workflows and set a new standard for mobile EHR applications.

Care Otter

Principal iOS Architect

✓ Created video courses focused on Swift, RxSwift, and iOS app development, providing in-depth instruction for developers of all levels, including:
• Swift 3 Essential Training: Beyond the Basics
• Swift 3 Essential Training: The Basics
• Swift 3 First Look
• Reactive Programming in iOS with RxSwift
• iOS UI Development with Visual Tools
• Swift 2 Essential Training

LinkedIn

Author at LinkedIn Learning (fka lynda.com)

✓ Solely developed a streaming music player app, one of the first enterprise apps to use Swift, collaborating with the server-side team, design, product teams, and an Android developer to ensure feature parity and a consistent user experience across platforms.
✓ Worked extensively with AVFoundation and related frameworks to deliver high-performance music streaming and playback, shaping the app’s architecture for a seamless and engaging user experience.

StationDigital

iOS Architect & Lead iOS Engineer

✓ Inherited and streamlined the codebases of multiple agriculture management apps, enhancing existing features and adding new ones to improve functionality and user experience.
✓ Led the development and collaborated with another developer to deliver high-quality, user-focused apps.
✓ Collaborated closely with product and design teams to ensure that app development aligned with business objectives, and regularly communicated progress and challenges to senior leadership.
✓ Designed and implemented a robust architecture that abstracted networking-based data from locally persisted data, allowing the app to function as if all required data was available locally. This approach utilized asynchronous data handling, ensuring smooth and efficient performance.

DTN / The Progressive Farmer

Mobile Architect & Lead iOS Engineer

✓ Selected to take over and solely develop a healthcare trauma EMR app for Coolfire Solutions' subsidiary, MedAware, starting from an initial pre-launch codebase.
✓ Focused on delivering a robust and reliable app tailored to the unique needs of healthcare providers in trauma environments, ensuring the app met rigorous industry standards.

Coolfire Solutions

iOS Developer

✓ Books and Editions:
• Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift — Author and Technical Editor
• RxSwift: Reactive Programming with Swift — Author

✓ Courses:
• Beginning RxSwift — Author

✓ Articles and Tutorials:
• CALayer Tutorial: Getting Started — Author
• Created and open-sourced Layer Player as part of this article, a highly popular learning tool for Core Animation in iOS, with over 1100 stars and 200 forks on GitHub.
• RxSwift: Transforming Operators — Author
• How To Perform A Lightweight Core Data Migration — Author

✓ Presentations:
• December 2014 Tech Talk: The Great CALayer Tour — Presenter

Kodeco

✓ Served as part of a team of contracted consultants, mentoring staff engineers on mobile development best practices while actively contributing to the development of a suite of EMR apps within Cerner's product suite.
✓ Developed each app based on a centralized base architecture, ensuring consistency and alignment with Cerner's existing desktop and web products and services.
✓ Engaged in "Lightning talks" to inspire and motivate Cerner engineers to adopt mobile development best practices, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Cerner Corporation

iOS Engineer & Mentor (subcontractor for About Objects)

✓ Transitioning to Swift — Author
• One of the first books on Swift, designed to help Objective-C developers transition to Swift seamlessly.
✓ Learn Cocoa Touch — Technical Editor
✓ Pro iOS Continuous Integration — Technical Editor

Apress

Author & Technical Reviewer

✓ Founded inyago LLC to develop innovative software solutions for healthcare.
✓ Created PracticeVine, a pioneering solution that enabled seamless API integration with MacPractice and potentially any other EHR system, significantly improving interoperability and data exchange in healthcare practices.
✓ Led the architecture and development of custom software solutions, ensuring high standards of quality and alignment with client needs.

inyago LLC

Software Architect & Developer

✓ Initiated plan for business team that led to top regional performance.
✓ Organized and held an in-store business solutions seminar with vendors from across the nation.

Apple Retail

Business Manager

✓ Founded and led Optimac, Inc., initially providing Mac consulting services specializing in healthcare private practice EMR/EHR (MacPractice), SMB CRM (Daylite), and POS (Lightspeed) solutions.
✓ Transitioned the business to focus on iOS software development in 2010, delivering architecture, development, and consultation services to a diverse range of global clients across industries such as healthcare, retail, and technology.
✓ Worked as a contractor for several companies, contributing to their software projects and helping them achieve their business goals through innovative iOS solutions.
✓ Taught iOS development with Swift as an Apple Certified Trainer (ACT) to aspiring iOS app developers, equipping them with modern iOS development skills and best practices.
✓ Created and launched several personal and side-project apps, including LOC, which was localized in 9 languages and featured groundbreaking real-time translation of 90+ languages in its chat functionality, a feature ahead of its time in the social media space.
✓ Provided training and mentorship to clients, enhancing their development practices and enabling them to adopt modern iOS development techniques effectively.

Optimac, Inc.

iOS Application Architect, Developer & Consultant

Practice consultant and territory manager for MacPractice, a practice management and EMR/EHR solution based on Apple technologies serving medical (MD), dental (DDS/DMD), chiropractic (DC), and eye healthcare (OD) private practices.
Sold, implemented, and/or trained over 300 clients.
Performed onsite and webinar-based seminars, exhibited at tradeshows, provided comprehensive hardware and software implementation and training, and held users group conferences.
Key technology resource for corporate employees and field representatives.

MacPractice Inc.

Territory Manager and Practice Consultant

✓ Established new client business with director through C-level executives at hospitals and health systems.

Scott Gardner