About me

Life is too short to feel victimized by the changing world. You have to own your career and destiny. There are a lot of helps out there in making it in the world, but the first step starts with numero uno: having an attitude of continuous improvement and perpetual education, self or otherwise.

The Adventures of Alex: Electricity - Storybook app for iPad. Reached #6 on top education apps on the App Store.
Trip Receipts - Keep track of your expense receipts while on a business trip!
Webmail++ - Webmail access app that has had nearly 7 million sessions by users since usage tracking began in late 2012.
TF2 Recipes - Utility app for viewing your Team Fortress 2 backback.

Computer Languages: Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, C, Java, Groovy, Apex, C#
Platforms: iOS, tvOS, watchOS, node.js, Pebble Smartwatch, J2EE, SalesForce, ASP.NET
Fluently speak, read, and write: English, Spanish, Q’eqchi’

Principal Software Architect

Designed and developed ICCU’s “RadPad” infrastructure:
- Bi-directional, iPad-based collaboration platform for in-branch transactions:
  - Establishing card PINs.
  - Signing e-documents.
  - etc.
- Security-first design.
- Deployed to all 55+ branches.
- Integration of Video Chat technology that allowed a flex remote workforce to takeover in-branch staff in busy locations and on weekends.
Establish and refine policy and procedure for:
- Architecture Review
- Software Development Life Cycle
- ICCU Fintech Committee
- etc.
Fintech Committee Chair:
- VP or higher representatives from all major lines of business.
- Identify, evaluate, and review fintechs that could be of strategic interest to ICCU.
- Send recommendations to executive stakeholders for strategic planning and implementation.
Completion of Filene i3 Innovation Program
- 2-year program.
- Focus on market research, communication skills, and innovation.

Senior Research Engineer

Create prototypes of mobile solutions in areas of interest to USAA.
Mobile development on USAA iPhone, iPad applications.
Innovated creative solutions that resulted in fourteen granted US patents:
- 8,620,815: Systems and methods for document management
- 8,760,285: Wildfire risk assessment
- 8,843,405: Systems and methods for providing card account controls and purchase impact information
- 9,852,487: Method and system for interactive remote inspection services
- 10,019,714: Systems and methods for providing card account controls and purchase impact information
- 10,097,953: Network based resource management and allocation
- 10,289,760: Assessing potential water damage
- 10,332,358: Systems and methods for distributed currency management
- 10,402,799: Systems and methods for distributed currency management
- 10,650,411: System, method and apparatus for location based delivery of determined pertinent data
- 10,713,739: Method and system for interactive remote inspection services
- 10,785,594: Network based resource management and allocation
- 10,808,351: Systems and methods for appliance monitoring sensors
- 11,395,094: Network based resource management and allocation
Created and taught an intro to Objective-C, Swift, and iOS classes, a primer for those who have an interest in becoming iOS developers at USAA.

Independent iOS Developer

Publication of many iOS applications, including The Adventures of Alex: Electricity, Trip Receipts, Webmail++, TF2 Recipes, more.
Contract work building VidAngel iPhone, iPad, and tvOS apps from the ground up.

Panelist at Develop.Idaho 2017, Mobility Demands A Futuristic Approach
CocoaLove 2016 - Objective-C vs Swift: Why Can't We Be Friends?
TEDx San Antonio Spring 2016 Speaker - Phone Zombies: Technology for Reconnecting with Nature and Each Other

Organizer, National Day of Civic Hacking 2017 @ ISU
Organizer of Southeast Idaho Developers 2017-Present
Curator, Programming Committee for TEDx San Antonio
Organizer of SA iOS Dev Users Group 2011-2017
Frequent contributor on StackOverflow.com
Built Geekdom for iOS, an app I built pro-bono for Geekdom members in San Antonio, Texas.

KinsaTherm - Swift library created after reversing engineering a Kinsa Bluetooth LE thermometer.
GoogleTranslationAPI - Objective-C library for interacting with Google's Translations API.
MadBomber - Game demonstrating how to build a basic app in SpriteKit.