Engineer Developer

Andrew Bennett – June **** Page * of *

Andrew Bennett

Address: Milpitas, CA, 95035, USA Nationality: American Citizen Email: *************@*****.***

Telephone: (cell) 650-***-****

Summary

Experienced Engineer with 25+ years Software (iPhone/iPad, shrink-wrapped, video games, embedded systems and web) and Hardware (peripherals and children’s toys) experience. Highlights

• 8+ years of coding iOS apps in Objective-C and Swift

• Programmed embedded system for Children’s Toy using 6502-like Assembler.

• Led an 18-month project to bring a Children’s Games Console toy to market from 1st prototype to final retail product, including 4 months in mainland China.

• Extensive Localization experience - Have successfully overseen the simultaneous launch of 4 major products in 8 territories (inc Japan). The most recent project included 2 hours of speech and over 50 pages of text.

• Background in programming and technical authoring. App Work

8+ years experience developing published Native iOS Apps. (coding, design and artwork). Recently I've finishing working on a large Social Network (SocialGO) with Feeds, Chat, User customization. I did all the iOS native app, all the server-side work (APIs, MySQL and server set up) and managed a remote developers working on the Android and Web versions

(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/socialgo/id1242589736 ) Previously I worked for a client on Jibe! a calendar-based Social Network and ChatYES! a full open-world chat app with private chat and dating games. Before that I worked on a Rock Star Social Network app platform with 1 other iOS developer

(we've split the work roughly 50/50). Keith Urban’s Office App was the first published app, followed up by one for Lady Antebellum.

Before that I was as the Lead Developer on this iPad app leading 2 others: CoStar Go: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/costargo/id438575593?mt=8 I coded all the app infrastructure, server communications and about 2/3 of the UI work. Apps I've worked exclusively on:

Scout's Shapes & Colors Farm for LeapFrog and Dinosaur Train Eggspress for PBS Kids TV. Drunk Dial NO!: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drunkdialno/id309080055?mt=8 Andrew Bennett – June 2018 Page 2 of 3

Experience

Contract Engineer – iPhone / iPad / iOS

Milpitas, CA, USA

January 2011 – Present Day

Working remotely on many big and small iPhone/iPad/iOS contract projects, usually as the sole or Senior Engineer.

These are the main ones:

January 2011 – July 2011

CoStar Inc, San Diego on CoStar iPad App

September 2011 – January 2012

Scout’s Colors And Shapes for LeapFrog

April 2012 – May 2014

FanFare Entertainment on Keith Urban’s and Lady Antebellum Official Apps September 2014 – November 2014

MyActivityPal on MyActivity Pal app

November 2014 – October 2015

Mobius Inc on Jibe! Calendar-based social network

January 2016 – December 2017

SocialGO Development Ltd on SocialGO

December 2017 – April 2018

Modee Inc, Foster City, CA on Fly App

Senior Engineer - iPhone

NearbyNow Inc, Mountain View, CA, USA

April 2009 – January 2011

Sole Engineer working on a collection of iPhone apps all based on the same code base. Clients include some of the largest magazine Publishers in the country – Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, GQ etc. Best selling app had 400,000 downloads and 2+ million sessions. I was responsible for the iPhone code-base as well as occasionally managing iPhone contractors. CEO / President

Explore Fun Inc, Milpitas, CA, USA

June 2006 – Present Day

Recently worked on 3 new iPhone Apps (including ChatYES!, DrunkDialNO! and Wrangle!).

Originally formed company to develop and bring to market 2 children’s electronic toys. Worked on 2 electronics toys. Designed and developed all electronics including 6502-like Andrew Bennett – June 2018 Page 3 of 3

Assembler coding, but was unable to find a large company partner to bring them to market.

CEO / President

TrackMyShipments Inc, Milpitas, CA, USA

September 2007 – 2011

Formed company to develop and bring to market www.trackmyshipments.com. Originally developed 2 native iPhone versions – TrackMyShipments and TrackMyShipments Lite, and more recently upgraded both to TrackMyShipments+ which includes in-app purchases for feature upgrades.

VP – Product Engineering

Bright Things Inc, Palo Alto, CA, USA

April 2004 – June 2006

Led the project to bring ‘Bubble’ from very early prototype to market. ‘Bubble’ is a Playstation-like toy for children of 2-5 years old. A cartridge-based system it works with a DVD player to give the child a fully interactive experience - they feel that they are controlling their favorite TV characters.

I oversaw all aspects of the project: Hardware; Firmware; Software; Mechanical Engineering through various prototype stages to pilot and then full production in mainland China. This included working closely with engineering teams in the US; Software production teams in the UK and vendors and the factory in China (including 4 months there during the Production phase).

Education

Harrogate Grammar School Mathematics (Grade A), Further Mathematics 1975 – 1982 and Physics ‘A’ Levels, 8 ‘O’ Levels

University Of Leeds Computer Science

1982 – 1983

References

Some recommendations from ex-colleagues:

“Andrew is detailed orientated, tenacious and amazingly, able to think flexibly and rigorously at the same time to get the job done. He's hard working, loyal and schedule orientated. We would not have successfully built and launched our hardware product without his dedication to the task.”

“Andrew is a dedicated, hardworking and highly intelligent individual. He would be an asset to any business. In particular, he is absolutely one of the best project managers that ever worked for us. He gets things done and is tireless in his attention to detail. He's also a great guy to have around.”

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