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.

NOTABLE APPS

SKILLS

  • Computer Languages: Objective-C, Swift, C, Java, C#, JavaScript, SQL
  • Platforms: iPhone/iPad, Pebble Smartwatch, J2EE, ASP.NET, Mac, Windows
  • Fluently speak, read, and write English, Spanish, Q’eqchi’

CURRENTLY LEARNING

EXPERIENCE

USAA, San Antonio, Texas
5/2006 - Present
Senior Research Engineer
  • Create prototypes of mobile solutions in areas of interest to USAA.
  • Mobile development on USAA iPhone and iPad applications.
  • Innovated creative solutions that resulted in three granted US patents (8,620,815, 8,760,285, and 8,843,405) and an additional two pending for electronic communication and transactions.
  • Created and taught an intro to Objective-C and iOS class, a primer for those who have an interest in becoming iOS developers at USAA.
WayneHartman.com, The Ether, Nowhere
5/2010 - Present
Independent iOS Developer

COMMUNITY

OPEN SOURCE

  • GoogleTranslationAPI - Objective-C library for interacting with Google's Translations API.
  • MadBomber - Game demonstrating how to build a basic app in SpriteKit.

EDUCATION