Engineer Software

Kurt Revis

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SUMMARY Senior/lead level software engineer, with 15 years experience developing Mac and iOS

applications.

I love solving hard problems, fixing impossible bugs, and learning whole new domains. I'm not

happy unless the whole team is succeeding; I contribute by finding and removing obstacles,

creating coherent architecture and APIs, and answering a lot of questions.

EXPERIENCE Senior Software Engineer, Avatron Software

AND HISTORY October 2011

Developing a new iOS / Mac product.

Senior Software Engineer, Apple, Inc.

January 2003 April 2010

In the iWork group at Apple, shipped several releases of Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and

iWeb, on both Mac and iPad.

For iWork for iPad, designed and implemented a new, Core Animation-based

graphics and interaction framework, which was essential to all 3 apps. We built a

revolutionary touch-based UI, pushing the limits of an untried OS and hardware,

and shipped on schedule!

Lead engineer for the graphics system used by all the Mac apps, built on OpenGL,

Quartz, and Cocoa.

Designed and implemented new features, from high-level UI to low-level details,

across the whole suite. Was involved with text, document storage, import/export,

performance, HTML widgets, and essentially anything that appeared on the

screen.

Went through the whole product lifecycle, several times. Did estimates and

scheduling, decided on feature sets for releases, presented proposals, wrote

prototypes and documentation, and filed for patents.

Led a team of two other engineers. Ran daily scrum meetings.

Coordinated with the whole team: design, engineering, QA, product management,

and marketing. Answered questions for scores of other engineers, both local and

remote.

Wrote, triaged, analyzed, and fixed thousands of bug reports.

Senior Software Engineer, The Omni Group

April 1998 July 2001

Worked on a variety of Mac OS X and WebObjects projects, for consulting clients and for

Omni directly.

Led development of a vertical-market store management application for Mac OS X,

Salon Transcripts. Worked with the client and end users on the specification, and

managed two other engineers.

Wrote proposals and estimates for potential consulting work.

Added features to, and fixed bugs in, the web browser OmniWeb (winner of two

Apple Design Awards in 2001).

Performed upgrades, developed bug fixes, and cleaned up the architecture of the

online store of a major software company.

Wrote Mac OS X, Windows, and WebObjects applications that worked with

relational databases (Oracle, FrontBase, DB2, and Sybase).

Software Engineer, Edmark

January 1996 April 1998

Developed original multimedia education titles for Macintosh and PC, including 3

shipping CD-ROMs, using C++ and in-house cross-platform libraries. Collaborated with

teams of programmers, artists, sound designers, and educators. Also developed a

prototype implementation of a "kid safe" web browser for the Mac, using custom code on

top of Internet Explorer.

Software Engineer, SPRY/CompuServe Internet Division

June 1995 January 1996

Developed a user-friendly account creation and network configuration application for

Internet in a Box for the Macintosh, using C++ and PowerPlant. Also developed Windows

95-specific enhancements for the web browser SPRY Mosaic, using Visual C++ and MFC.

SKILLS Expert in:

iOS app development (iPad and iPhone), including Cocoa Touch (UIKit), Quartz, and

Core Animation

Mac OS X app development, including Cocoa and WebKit

Mac OS X and iOS performance tuning

Objective-C, Objective-C++, and C languages

Object-oriented design and patterns

Xcode

Proficient in:

Audio and MIDI programming on Mac OS X (CoreAudio)

Web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, AJAX

OpenGL

C++, AppleScript languages

UNIX programming and scripting

Source control with Git, Subversion, and CVS

Familiar with:

Web application development with Ruby on Rails

Web client implementation: Rendering, JavaScript implementation, TCP/IP

programming

Relational database design

Platform-independent coding

Java, Haskell, Perl, SQL, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk languages

EDUCATION B.S., Engineering and Applied Science, concentration in Computer Science

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

June 1995

PERSONAL MIDI Monitor and SysEx Librarian

PROJECTS

Two MIDI utility applications for Mac OS X. Useful for working with external MIDI

devices (like synthesizers), troubleshooting, and testing apps and drivers. Released as

Open Source.

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