I lead product-driven software development teams that create cutting-edge applications that consistently thrill & delight users. I work closely with Product & Design, Sales & Editorial, in order to develop products that satisfy a variety of constraints. I take a personal interest in my work. I feel ownership over what I help create.
More about me
More about me
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Idea Flight - June 2011 [iPad]
- Allows a 'pilot' to share presentations, documents, & designs across multiple iPads.
- Top 5 Productivity iPad App — Apple's 2011 App Store Rewind.
- First product from Condé Nast's Interactive Product Group [iPG]
- Article explaining the technical approach
- Condé Nast Magazine Platform [iPhone+iPad]
- Phased out in Spring 2011 with the Adobe platform
- GQ - November 2009, Vanity Fair - May 2010, Glamour - August 2010
- Led a team of 3-7 developers
- featured in an Apple commercial on TV
- part of Apple's iPad launch
- First ABC approved mobile magazine application
- Reviews: CIO.com, The New York Times, appolicious, Wall Street Journal
- Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List - iPad - April 2010; iPhone - April 2009
- chosen to be part of Apple's iPad launch PR
- over 4.5 million downloads
- peaked at #1 Lifestyle app, top 10 overall
- featured in Apple commercial on TV
- App of the Week at The New York Times
- sole developer for version 1.0; led teams of up to 7 developers
- Style.com [iPad] - September 2010
- Advisory role for the development team
- Postcard by Concierge.com [iPhone] - August 2009
- Music Alarm [iPhone] - August 2009
- Wired Product Reviews: my first iPhone app - November 2008
- iEat: local restaurant listings for iPod classic - 2006
- Utilized the Notes app in an innovative way to bring a newspaper's restaurant database to your mobile device
- RichardHaining.com: a portfolio site - 2009
- Myspace+Facebook apps:
Flip, Epicurious, What are you wearing, Style - 2007
- PHP, MySQL.
- MediaHub: hyperlocal photo sharing tool - 2006
- user-managed media website with a localized, neighborhood-based approach.
- lead developer of a 3-developer team
- intimately involved with product from the conception of the idea through development, testing, deployment, marketing, and training.
- Java//J2EE, AJAX, PHP, Perl, Oracle, MySQL, UNIX.
- Bracket Contest Tool: create NCAA bracket-style tournaments - 2005
- Java//J2EE, Oracle.
- Directory Tool: create basic online directories - 2005
- PHP, MySQL.
- Song Charting Tool for Wake Radio - 2003
- Allowed DJ's to track songs played & the Music Director to chart top tracks
- PHP, MySQL
- LinkedIn iOS Library - forked from ResultsDirect
- Online Publishers Association Mobile Day - October 2010 - with Janet Kasdan, Chris Gonzalez, and Alex McDonald
- Remember when we were just talking about iPhone Apps?
- ConvergeSE 2010 - June 25-26, 2010
- A deep dive into the technical process and a chat about the general process of creating the Epicurious iPhone+iPad app. [pdfs]
- video of the talk - June 26, 2010
- pre-conference interview with Gene Crawford, owner of Period Three
- Online Publishers Association Mobile Day - May 2009 - with Janet Kasdan
- iPhone Apps: The Game Changer
- Ars Technica - June 2011
- unmatchedstyle - June 2010
- Mobile America: An Exposé on American Cell Phone Culture - May 2009
- Epicurious - iPad
- Epicurious - iPhone
- 2010 National Magazine Award Winner for Mobile Media — ASME
- 2010 Mobile Strategy Award Finalist — MIN
- November 2010 - Inducted into Apple's App Store Hall of Fame
- Idea Flight
- 2011 Apple App Store Rewind — Top 5 Productivity iPad App
- Condé Magazine Platform
- 2009 Innovator of the Year — Condé Nast Publications
- 2010 National Magazine Finalist for Mobile Media — ASME
- 2010 Mobile Entertainment Award Nominee — Webby
- Postcard by Concierge.com
- News.me: Senior iOS Developer [August 2011-present]; New York, New York
- Condé Nast: Co-Founder/Technical Architect, Interactive Product Group [January 2011-August 2011]; Senior Software Developer [August 2007-January 2011]; Lead Mobile Developer [September 2008-December 2010]; New York, New York
- Started on a 4 developer Special Projects team, primarily creating Facebook apps. After the iPhone App Store launched, I learned Objective-C and created a prototype for Epicurious. I spent several months developing iPhone apps by myself, before I was joined by 2 colleagues for the GQ project. For the iPad launch, I led a team of 7 developers to simultaneously create iPad versions of both Epicurious & GQ, the former of which was heavily promoted by Apple during its launch, culminating in a nod from Steve Jobs himself during the iPhone 4.0 keynote address.
- In January 2011, I became the Technical Architect of the newly formed Interactive Product Group at Condé Nast. Our first product, Idea Flight, launched in June 2011 to much acclaim.
- 2009 Innovator of the Year, Condé Nast Publications - for my work on the GQ Magazine iPhone app
- Yahoo: Software Developer/Technical Yahoo [June 2007-August 2007]; Atlanta, Georgia
- Part of the Broadband/Connected Life group
- CoxNet: Software Developer [November 2004-May 2007]; Atlanta, Georgia
- Part of the 4 developer Special Projects team that develops large company-wide projects, while still retaining the flexibility to work on small, site-specific projects.
- Wake Radio: General Manager [2003-2004], DJ [2000-2004]; Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Led a staff of 50 DJs, 7 executives
- Ben & Jerrys: Assistant Manager, Scooper [2000-2002]; Atlanta, Georgia
- Objective-C+Cocoa Touch; PHP; MySQL; HTML+CSS; Java//J2EE; Oracle
- Agile Development/Scrum; Team Leader
- Cross-departmental relationships
- Product ideation
- Wake Forest University: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, with Honors, Cum Laude [Class of 2004]
- Minor in Mathematics
- Honors Societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon; Pi Mu Epsilon
- Pace Academy: High School Diploma [Class of 2000]
- Feds with EDS: Searching for the optimal explosive scanning system: Published In UMAP Journal 24.2, Summer 2003 edition. 2003 COMAP Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling: Outstanding Award (Top 5 papers).
- Quick, Pass Me the Optimal Amusement Park Queuing System!: 2004 COMAP Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling: Meritorious Designation (Top 10%).
- Medium-Sized Peer-to-Peer Database System for Secure Data Transfer: Senior Honors Thesis [code].
- developed through an Undergraduate Research Fellowship at Wake Forest University under the mentorship of the illustrious Dr. Errin Fulp
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