Resume -- Kevin Smith

Longtime coding nut. I've built everything from #1 iOS Apps to Facebook games, media players and GPS fleet tracking software.

Kevin Smith
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Professional History

March 2017 - Present: Principal iOS Engineer — Cornerstone OnDemand

Recreating Cornerstone's learning application for native iOS with Swift. Led architectural decisions around persistent caching, model management, and CI integration.

Dec. 2014 - March 2017: Senior Mobile Engineer — Cornerstone OnDemand

Adopting features from our enterprise solutions to iOS and Android platforms.
Modernized build system with Continuous Integration server (TeamCity) and Grunt tasks to deliver always up-to-date iOS and Android apps to QA and stakeholders.
Developing code standards, cleanup of legacy code, and mentoring junior team members.

Oct. 2013 - Dec. 2014: Senior Mobile Engineer — DAQRI

Expanded DAQRI's core mobile platform for developing augmented reality (AR) experiences. Added native-level (Objective C and Java) plugins to extend Unity3D functionality including object tracking, deployment, networking and security features.

Sept. 2011 - Oct. 2013: Developer and Consultant — Wise Old Duck Games and Wise Old Duck Technology Solutions

Designed and engineered the independent Lost Spells Puzzle Tower game for iOS.
Lost Spells Puzzle Tower has players rebuilding shattered crosswords to collect coins and progress through a short story. (Lost Spells in App Store) (Lost Spells Website)

(Contract): iOS Consultant, Playviews Inc.

Rewrote and improved animation framework that allowed character and combat art designed and illustrated with Flash to be imported and used within Cocos2d / iOS. Optimized rendering of 2.5D (isomorphic) game map and related assets. (Fantasy Quest review)

March 2010 - September 2011: Crowdstar Inc.

January 2011 - September 2011, Engineering Lead, Mobile Games, Crowdstar Inc.

March 2010 - January 2011: Software Developer, Crowdstar Inc.

Built a team from two members to six developers and two artists. Managed contracted third parties. Delivered the revolutionary Top Girl app within an ambitious four-month schedule.

Top Girl was a groundbreaking RPG played in a world of fashion and nightlife. Top Girl peaked at #1 on the App Store's Top Grossing list, where it remained for several months. (Top Girl for iOS and Android)

Built Mighty Pirates, an adventurous social game on the high seas. Created a flexible power-up system allowing a content manager to easily devise and update in-game bonuses based on game achievements.
Developed Hello City, a fun and casual city building game. Devised a high performance system for animating hundreds of avatars at once. The rig system allows unlimited customization of stock appearances and clothing, integrating with a set of animations that only need to be created once. Implemented several isometric mini-games inside the game world.
Co-wrote Pop Boom, a colorful and addictive puzzle game. This project was completed very quickly - in three weeks - by myself and one other engineer.

2004 - Dec. 2009: Developer and Consultant — Wise Old Duck Games and Wise Old Duck Technology Solutions

Wrote the KaBauble game client using Flash, Javascript. This client presents the user interface and actual gameplay to the user, validates user actions and communicates game state and result information using XML over a socket or via HTTP requests.
In KaBauble, players arrange pieces strategically and then search for high-scoring words in three different modes of play. This game is live at games.wode.com.
Customized the Wise Old Duck Games game-server using a combination of PHP, C++, and MySQL. This includes a user registration, matchmaking and rating system, and integration with Facebook. Constructed remaining parts of the Wise Old Duck Games website employing HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Co-wrote Magic Crayon Conundrum : An arcade-style puzzle game created in SDL and C++. Download and play from crayon.ducker.org.
Siege : An Internet chess client allowing play on popular free and commercial chess servers. This was written using MFC and C++.

(Contract): Backend Consultant, Matt Mac Interactive / Bottlewebpals.com

Integrated existing Flash content with a custom backend. This allows users to activate virtual pets with codes obtained by purchasing promoted toys and stuffed animals.

(Contract): Engineering Lead, Say Design / Kidzchores.com

Designed and brought together resources to create the Kidz' Chores web game.

Kidz' Chores invites families to come together for fun with a message of responsibility. Players customize avatars, parents assign chores, and kids complete them on a schedule to save up coins that they trade in for prizes.

Organized animation resources, wrote ActionScript 3 to manage and present the game. Implemented a game server using PHP and MySQL to update and persist user accounts, avatar customizations, and other player status data.

(Contract): Developing Consultant, TranSeed

Completed and debugged the Sponge web-form system.

Sponge allows an HTML author to create a traditional web form and have detailed information about user interaction with the form automatically logged and preserved for later analysis.

Utilized C++, MySQL, and JavaScript to complete and update Sponge functionality according to client specifications.

2002 - 2003: Software Engineer, Winamp / America Online.

Worked on two iterations of a prototype "AOL Media Player".
Programmed an experimental DMX media player.
Created a set of reusable UI controls for use in the DMX player and the first iteration of the AOL Media Player. These were COM objects built on top of Windows using C++ and IDL.

2000 - 2001: Software Engineer, Sonique / Lycos Inc.

Developed Sonique and Sonique 2 media player software.

Sonique was an MP3 and media playback application that emphasized cutting-edge graphics and highly customizable visual interfaces. It was platform independent, and written mostly in C++.

Wrote custom visualization system allowing third parties to access either waveform or frequency data and then write back fascinating visual effects.
Created several demonstration programs integrating MANTIS customizable UI with Windows SDK-based applications.

1997 - 2000: Software Engineer, GeoResearch Inc.

Programmed GeoLink and PowerTrack software.

GeoLink and PowerTrack were Windows-based applications developed in C++ with MFC. GeoLink software collected coordinates from GPS receivers and linked it to user-defined features to create spatial databases and maps. PowerTrack was a vehicle and fleet tracking solution.

Worked with customers to develop custom solutions based on these core products. Consistently beat budgeted project timelines.