Akil Ash's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Lead Software Engineer, Manager - iOS @ The Huffington Post Managing both the team and the global technical direction of iOS at The Huffington Post. From February 2016 to March 2017 (1 year 2 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Software Engineer, iOS Team Lead @ The Huffington Post Oversaw development of all consumer facing iOS mobile products. From June 2015 to February 2016 (9 months) New York, NYSoftware Engineer - iOS @ MuseAmi, Inc. Develop, modify, support and maintain iOS application infrastructure for multiple shipping products as well as new product opportunities. From February 2014 to June 2015 (1 year 5 months) New York, NYDesigner @ Kaiser America, Inc Designed multi-directional pattern-based designs for children under garments and sleep-wear for Walmart and Target. From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) New York, NYEngineering Manager, Commerce (iOS) @ Venmo Lead, coached and managed a product engineering team (Commerce - iOS) distributed in 3 different cities (NYC, Chicago, San Francisco).Directly responsible for the mobile engineering team that delivered revenue generating features for Venmo’s iOS platform (Commerce squad)Nurtured and established a highly productive, collaborative and inclusionary culture within engineering during my tenure. Helped to lead efforts in standing up a cross-functional engineering team in Chicago.Managed both the ‘Pay With Venmo’ and ‘Venmo Card’ delivery teams (engineering) in Commerce at VenmoWhile coordinating with cross-functional teams, led the delivery of an instant transfer fee increase feature (on iOS-native team) which accounted for a spectacular increase in revenue, having broad earnings impact for Venmo+PayPal. From June 2018 to February 2019 (9 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Software Engineer, iOS @ CNBC Headed up development of the new CNBC iOS app redesign; with the assistance of the broader team, rewrote the app in Swift using MVVM.Development lead on several large-scale features in the CNBC appSignificantly increased app (current in-market 4.6.x app) stability from 93.1% crash-free users to 99.88%Pioneered a new Design-to-Implementation workflow for the Design and iOS Engineering teams - netted a roughly 83% increase (time-bound, empirical) in the speed of implementing design comps in XcodeMentored and help train more junior iOS developers on the teamManaged the development efforts for the new CarPlay experience.Help lead talent acquisition efforts (interviews, authoring and coordinating coding exercises) for the tvOS and iOS teams. From April 2017 to June 2018 (1 year 3 months) Englewood Cliffs, NJSoftware Engineer - Mobile Lead (iOS, Android) @ Stylesight Stylesight is now formally, WGSN.Lead all mobile projects and initiatives in the mobile department; Directly influenced the company’s mobile product directionReleased version updates to the company’s preeminent Stylesight Style Traveler iPhone app which included updates for iOS 7 at the time of it’s release. The version updates resolved various bugs and general software instability ranging from the UI and data model inconsistencies to memory management issuesHeavily profiled the Stylesight Style Traveler iPhone app which highlighted areas for optimizationMitigated and resolved many bugs on the company’s native Android app, Stylesight News.Heavily utilized DDMS and the Android Debug Monitor to debug the Android Stylesight News appHeaded-up processes I introduced to the technical team such as introduction to different Mobile QA processes (variouswhite and grey box testing approaches), automation and TDD. This included having ad-hoc discussions and giving brief presentations From August 2013 to December 2013 (5 months) New York, NYiOS Developer @ ExpandTheRoom LLC Worked with a team of senior and junior developers to develop and maintain various native iOS projects. Experienced with Objective-C, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, UIKit, Foundation and iOS SDK 5/6/7In-depth experience in application submission and provisioning proceduresWorked on extending company iOS libraries (CameraKit using AVFoundation, CoreVideo, CoreMedia in addition to others)Thorough understanding of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines and App Store Submission guidelines From February 2013 to August 2013 (7 months) New York, NYSenior Interactive Developer @ ExpandTheRoom LLC MobileArchitected and lead development of 4 medium scale mobile (3 iOS, 2 Android) apps currently available in the Apple App store and Android MarketplaceExtensive knowledge of REST and SOAP based web service architecturesExperienced and well-versed in application architecture and design in the mobile development contexts. This included but wasn’t limited to using MVC, delegation and many design patterns such as Strategy, Proxy, Adapter, Momento, Factory and Singleton patterns.WebBuilt the #1 most popular casino slots game on Facebook (team was comprised of 2 developers, including myself), Time Travel SlotsDeveloped solely from the ground up an internationalized small-medium sized website for Scholastic Family Portal; Used CakePHP for the backend frameworkLead development on various front-end projects ranging from i18n localized websites built with the CakePHP framework to Flash games implementing physics engines and casino game engine algorithms to websites developed with responsive design using HTML5, CSS3 media queries and JavaScript; Extensive experience implementing JavaScript OOD/OOP meta-design patternsBuilt various web components including custom YouTube modules and Facebook applications in JavaScript using the module patternWrote a framework for quickly developing new casino-based mini games of 4 predefined game mechanics; Heavily used template, factory and strategy design patterns in it’s developmentWorked alongside .NET developer in developing a version update to a Flex RIA which included developing an image up- load/cropping/resize utility from scratch in the Flex Component LifecycleLead initial development of the company’s current website; Used HTML5, AJAX, CSS3, JavaScript and Wordpress in its developmentGave department-wide presentations on various web-based, unix, OOP & OOD/A (Object Oriented Programming and Object Oriented Design and Analysis) topics which included The Responsive Web, shebang and Design Patterns From April 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 11 months) Technology Consultant @ Robert Half Technology Technology consultant. Worked primarily on contract positions in front-end web-based technologies such as ActionScript, JavaScript DHTML, AJAX and HTML/CSS.Projects ranged from web-based DTHML/JavaScript sites (i.e. large website for Scholastic Read180) to complex enterprise-level ActionScript applications using OOP design and analysis principles (i.e. enterprise e-Learning app for CUNY built at Kognito Interactive) From January 2009 to April 2011 (2 years 4 months) New York, NYActionScript Developer - Consultant @ Kognito Interactive Utilized various ActionScript OOP design patterns such as MVC, Command, Mediator and Singelton patterns to develop Large-Scale eLearning solutions for clientsDeveloped an interactive quiz engine with ActionScript & XML to tests learners on client-developed course contentDeveloped functionality and interactivity for immersive 2D environment scenes illustrated by designers utilizing ActionScript animation engines, Animation Mathematics and Object Oriented Programmed activity architectureBuilt various components in ActionScript and XMLWorked on a team of ActionScript developers under a project manager’s guidelines to see projects through the full development lifecycle. From Spec’ing (UML & Documentation) through QA and Deployment From April 2010 to June 2010 (3 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Web Developer | Freelance @ Ash Interactive Digital Media . Interactive . Web . E-Commerce . RIA . Mobile Application Development . ConsultingWorked with clients to develop and execute new media marketing initiativesDeveloped Interactive Online Experiences for clients Developed E-commerce/Online Retail presences for clients utilizing dynamic database-driven development models and leveraging this with effective client-side usability, functionality and designUtilizeed Flash, Object Oriented (OOP) ActionScript 3.0, XML, JavaScript (jQuery), XHTML, PHP/MySQL & CSS web technologiesDesign Brand Identity & Branding Collateral for newly formed and established brands.Designed Graphics for print campaigns, advertising collateral, email campaigns and more. From 2005 to April 2010 (5 years) Senior ActionScript Web Developer @ Genetics By Geno, Inc Redeveloping all company's websites and online properties (Websites, Social & Micro-Social Networks, E-Commerce)Utilizing the Flash/ActionScript front-end technology to leverage newly developed engaging interactive user experiences with functional requirements set by the company's business model for the respective websitesDevelop RIA's to manage back-end processes and facilitate optimal efficiency.Design print promotional campaignsDevelop company's entire e-commerce online retail property for added revenue channel of the company's apparel & equipment sales From May 2009 to 2010 (1 year) Forest Hills, NYInformation Architect, Junior Developer @ Sixth Floor Developers, LLC Assisted in developing proposals for RFPs from perspective high profile clients & current clientsDeveloped application/program schematics, UML, wire frames & graphical compsAttended and led perspective client meetings for the purposes of informing clients of new media development strategies (i.e. Interactive, Mobile Initiatives, Viral Marketing Campaigns)Analyzed perspective client online potential and developed solutions and strategic deliverables for Return On Investment (ROI)Managed and organized client assets and website pre-development collateralOptimized and encoded video content to append to set project criteriaGraphically manipulated and optimized client assets for online deployment using industry standard tools (i.e. Photoshop,Illustrator) From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) Engineering Manager, iOS @ Starbucks Leading a high performing team of mobile engineers responsible for iOS engineering at Starbucks. The team is responsible for the industry leading Starbucks Rewards and Loyalty mobile platform as well as Mobile Order and Pay on iOS. Greater Seattle Area