Denis Arsenault

iOS App Developer

Technical Manager

US Citizen

PO Box 391402

Deltona, FL 32739

E: denis2@me.com

M:727.515.7476

 

Objectives

Veteran Software Designer and Architect with proven track record seeking suitable position within an iOS/Mobile application development environment. Part/full time, contract will all be considered. Remote work conditions required for non-Central Florida Locations

Profile

• Completed 5+ deep commercial native iOS Apps for 4 different clients over the past 5 years. • 5+ Years app design and development of iOS.

•  Evaluated phonegap for cross platform for Android based applications

• Completed 4+ Macintosh Application( Original Toolbox) 2 of which won Mac Eddy awards

• Completed 2+ Newton OS applications 

• 5+ years application design and development on the Macintosh.

• 15+ years experience leading, coordinating and supervising teams in a technical /

development environment. Team sizes ranged from 2 to 40.

• Excellent software engineering discipline.

• Proven track record developing mobile business solutions.

• Working understanding of Agile/Scrum development practices.

• Strong communication and influencing skills.

• Experience of working in globally distributed teams.

A strong technical / product development background through the development of

over 9 commercial desktop applications on the Macintosh and iOS and Windows. Worked at all levels: software developer, systems architect, technical manager, business owner.

Have proven, the ability to work effectively with technical development teams and other stakeholders in delivering commercial quality software products.

Core Skills for iOS:

◦ Objective-C, Core Graphics, Core Animation, Foundation APIs.

◦ Xcode 6.0

◦ Segue Development and Objective C 2.0

◦ UIKit, Interface Builder, Storyboarding, iPhone/iPad UI.

◦ Working knowledge of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) and Manual

Memory Management.

◦ Solid understanding of CocoaTouch patterns and best practices.

◦ Core Data/SQLite.

◦ Security/Encryption/Keychain access/Data Protection APIs.

◦ XML/JSON/WebService interaction with Objective-C.

◦ Solid network access experience from Objective-C with NSURLConnections.

◦ Good working knowledge of Instruments, profiling, leaks, static code

analysis, crash report symbolizations and analysis.

◦ Threading/Block Programming

◦ iOS Enterprise (and commercial Appstore) application creation and deployment.

◦ Experience of using iTunes Connect and iOS Provisioning Portal.

◦ Working knowledge of Local and Push Notifications.

◦ Problem solving and resolution.

◦ Ability to provide time estimates for work items.

◦ Version control and issue/bug tracking.

◦ Experience calling C++ libraries from Objective-C.

◦ Location Services

◦ Core Animation

◦ Quartz/Core Image

◦ iOS 7 Technologies (Autolayout, CollectionViews, NSArchive)

◦ Cocos2D

◦ Audio Services, Audio Queues

◦ Twitter and Facebook Integration

◦ GameCenter

◦ In-App Purchase

◦ AWS (Amazon Web Services, S3 and EC2)

Employment History

January 2015- Present

SENIOR IOS DEVELOPER

BlueToad Inc.

Architect for Digital Learning Products

- Nantive Lead Developer for Digital Reader Engine.

- Apps on App Store to Date: 36+ (Based on 1 core iOS App Frameworks).

- Provide Full leadership in best practices for GCD and revamp of existing reader to the 2.x version.

- Provide Agile leadership for offshore teams in Ukraine and India

- Determine third party adoption of frameworks for support of markup/HTML5 format revisions

 

Duties include:

1. Design, architecture, and programming.

2. Technical analyses and quoting of product proposals and contracts.

3. Management of technical personnel and resources.

 

April 2011 – December 2014

SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Architect for Digital Learning Products

Apps on App Store to Date: 12+ (Based on 2 core ios App Frameworks)

Technical and Business leadership and engagement across multiple products. Including deployment and architecture methodologies, offshore contract negotiation, and overall cloud deployment and development.

- Lead Architect for redesigning Digital Book content generation to proprietary iPad products for Digital Learning platform in iTunes app store.

- Designed, developed and deployed sample gaming application to demonstrate HTML5/JS based cross platform Lesson object designing and deployment. Developed and Designed Information Lifecycle for content in synchronization model. Deployed to iTunes app store.

- Designed and developed prototype game application with cross platform game engine for native iOS and lead Android platform deployment in C++ utilizing public domain libraries and technologies.  Deployed to iTunes store.

 

Duties include:

1. Design, architecture, programming

2. Technical analyses and quoting of product proposals and contracts

3. Management of technical personnel and resources

 

SENIOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

HealthPlan Health Services

June, 2009 – March 2011

Senior Enterprise Architect to develop IT Governance department with the Goal of creating harmonization with IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management, JIT SDLC, Standards and Tech Support. 

- Devise and take Best Practices Enterprise Frameworks from industry standards (TOGAF, Zachman) for strategic management.

- Generate “As-Is” Technical, Application, and Data Architectures for defined “Road-Map” for IT.

- Proposed, defined and obtained Data Integration Strategy using open-source Talend Data Integration for Data Movement and ETL integration.

- Evaluated and chose high volume database platform Vertica Data Analytics platform for high performance Data Analytics.

- Designed and deployed Data Analytics Platform.

- Provide Guidance and leadership in approach to provide detangling of artifacts to provide for “To-Be” plans and estimations.

- Generate IT 5-year plan with matrix of multiple growth strategies, and recommendations for Senior Management.

- Provide for Strategic leadership in Business Intelligence and strategic reporting platform.

 

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Infotrax International, Tampa, FL2002 – 2009

Technical leadership and engagement across multiple clients. Including client relations, contract negotiation, and presentations for business development.

Clients:

HealthPlan Services

* iPhone Application design and development for carrier-based customers, and internal based sales-force for iPhone/iPad for native application approach of iPhone interfaces for Insurance quoting and in-force administration application for carrier clients

* Team leadership for Frameworks construction and deployment in best practices to leverage MVC application architectures for cross platform iOS/Android.

* Enterprise Architect for redesigning IT for re-hosting in-house administration and Claims processing Operational and Technical support across 23 client based carrier environments.

* Developed and Designed Information Lifecycle Planning deployment to match Service Levels with Revenue/Cost matrix across all Technical Service Group operations.

* Developed customize TOGAF framework to provide Process/Goal targets within ITIL base taxonomies.

Gentiva Home Health

* Enterprise Architect for design of revolutionary Mobile Point of Care system for patient intake and patient point-of-care systems

* Provided operations support planning, training, and logistics and budgeting organization, unified project plans, and rapid execution for aggressive timeline.

Broward County Schools

* Lead effort to design and build KPI’s and Balanced Scorecards for Administration, Academic, and Public targeted roles in Apple’s Daschcode using Widgets This leveraged the below technology called HATS that scraped as mashups for data feeds.

* Project Manager for Websphere HATS implementation within Websphere environment to web enable legacy mainframe and midrange systems.  Provided modernization model for migration from legacy TERMS LMS system and Enterprise Service Bus strategy for integration with SAP used from Administrative/Logistical management.

Kforce Specialty Staffing

* Business Intelligence strategy formulation and architect.  Project budget formulation, tools selection, and business opportunity identification.

* Report Design and Generation in ESSBASE, Hyperion, Cognos.

Teradyne

* Project Manager for divesture of line-of-business to split online transaction and analytical systems during acquisition of division. Providing outsourcing/offshoring of development and support components for operational model saving 20% annually.

* Lead cross-organizational team of 50 providing project organization, unified project plans, and rapid execution for aggressive timeline.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

* Business Process Lead for system detangling effort for division divesture. Determined resources, budget, built multi-corporate team identify system migration issues across multi-platform OLTP and OLAP systems.

* Lead architect for detangling Legacy AS400 RPG/CL IMS UDB/DB2 for deployment in enterprise data warehouse with data marts and ODS reporting environments

* Derived automated tools to generate key artifacts for rules generation for ETL processes to populate ODS and CORE structures.

* EAI enterprise planning for integration of remote data store synchronization against enterprise databases including Oracle, DB2/UDB and SQL Server.

* Designed evaluation criteria for Data Mining, ODS Reporting, and Data Warehousing tools.

* Devised and led hybrid information engineering methodology for system detanglement for legacy reporting environment.

Verizon

* Senior Data Architect for Teradata based 80TB Enterprise data warehouse within the data communications industry.

* Logical and Physical models derived by obtaining common definitions of internal data objects, and obtaining consensus of definitions of enterprise-wide customer data warehouse.

* Lead ETL design load efforts to generate data validity criteria and iterative testing environment.

* Generated User Acceptance plan for Data Stewardship and Error handling criteria and escalation.

* Generated project plan for phased, incremental delivery of complex migration of Data Warehouse environment.

Apple Computer

* Designed, built and obtained consensus for user signoff on user-acceptance plan.

* Redesigned and deployed Sales Forecasting tool into Fortune 100 client across 400+ mobile workstations using Portable Data Object model.

* Executed extreme programming model to provide increased developer productivity.

* Planned implemented and deployed application/database architecture across HP-UX and EMC Symmetrix storage.

* Establish procedures and methodologies for software prototyping using UML, RAD, with Objective C, C++, and WebObjects.

* Re-architected and deployed Sales Forecasting tool into Fortune 100 client across 400+ mobile workstations using Portable Data Object model.

* Provide project leadership using the APP model.

* Architected Sales Proposal Kit for cross-platform use to assist in proposal generation with Visual Basic on Mac Platform

 

DIRECTOR TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

Tech Data Corporation, Clearwater, FL2000 - 2002

Global Distributor of microcomputers and related hardware and software products

Directed global corporation’s strategic vision, across full spectrum of technologies.  Managed $40 million budget and 40+ employees. Provided cost cutting of $20 million.

* Designed obtained consensus and deployed new service level initiative to save $30 million annually.

* Re-designed Peregrine (Remedy) help desk reports and scripts to support Tier II and Tier III reporting requirements.

* Evaluated and produced test tool and environment for establishing DB2 scalability testing for IBM S/390 running Siebel.

* Re-negotiated voice and data communications contract saving $10 million annually.

* Planned, developed, and implemented successful business continuance test for all Tier II and III Mainframe, Unix and Windows based servers for Tech Data.

* Expanded Data Center and implemented new physical security model for all corporate and distribution center facilities.

* Evaluated and implemented security imitative to address internal security and data usage tracking.

* Designed, tested and deployed new WAN for Western Hemisphere consisting of Frame-Relay, Direct-Connect, secure VPN, Voice over IP, and Internet based access across 40 international sites. To provide compliance with new Service-level initiatives

* Redesigned and implemented Web Site redundancy strategy to maintain target of 100,000 simultaneous users.

* Generated worldwide IT standards and obtained worldwide acceptance and consensus for Enterprise System deployment.

* Established, evaluated, and selected enterprise storage model and proposed scalable and efficient storage technology platform to fit international as well as domestic business units providing Service

* Evaluated, proposed and enhanced backup methodologies to support business continuance plan.

* Designed strategy of rapid response to support 1,000+ seat call-center to enforce service level compliance.

 

VICE PRESIDENT ENGINEEERING

BrainBuzz.com, Projects.de Tampa, FL/Karlsruhe Germany1999-2000

Technical and marketing leadership in building a world-class web site with $7 Million budget

Headed 22-person department including content generators, community subject-matter experts, database administrators, business analysts and developers.  Provided Web design leadership in generating a portal strategy.  Grew web site traffic from 3M page views/month to 20M page views/month.

* Identified, proposed, and developed technology certification exam sites to promote www.cramsession.com, and www.preplogic.com sisters sites to define vertical training products.

* Designed and implemented portal architecture supporting online store, syndicated content, and other partnerships for content sharing. Provided risk assessment and due diligence for acquisition strategy to support IPO.

* Developed content aggregation policies for communities and ecruiting.  Developed syndicated content architecture to support strategic web partnerships, implemented targeted marketing campaigns to promote web site.

* Microsoft DNA based web site. Utilizing Visual Basic, ASP, C++ and Java to provide integrated domain strategy.

* Proposed, negotiated and engaged outsourcing of web site facilities.

* Introduced JAD/RAD methodologies and information architecture tools; provided a 200% increase in productivity.

* Conceived and implemented co-location and web site caching plan to enhance web site performance.

* Designed and developed on-line testing “Skill Drill” for online testing and skills certification.