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Software engineer with over 7 years experience including 1.5 year working in London and over 4 years working in New York City, I hold a master’s degree in real time and embedded systems from EPITA, a renowned five-year IT Engineer school located in Paris, France. My work experience, coupled with numerous academic projects, has given me strong skills in organization and software engineering. I have developed a flexible and proactive approach, as well as the ability to rapidly assimilate new technologies and adapt to challenging environments. Moreover I am hardworking, have an inquisitive nature, and pay meticulous attention to details. Traveling for several months in Asia and living/working in London for 2 years helped me garnering great interpersonal and communication skills, while perfecting my English. Presently living in New York City and working as a senior mobile developer at Prolific Interactive, a Brooklyn and San Francisco based mobile strategy, design & development agency.Lead iOS Engineer @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Mobile Engineer @ About my role: • Mostly working on iOS applications, and a bit more • Added Cocoapods, continuous integration (esp. Jenkins, Hockey) and some unit testing to my bow. • Practicing Agile processes and code reviews on a daily basis • Responsible for defining some of the process, coding conventions and best practices amongst the iOS development team • Helping out with UX design anytime I can • See previous experience for some iOS/mobile related skills details In the past few months took over some of the iOS leadership role in the company: • Managing projects and teams on a higher level, but still developing myself • Responsible for interviewing iOS candidates, from intern to senior level • Helping out with new hires on-boarding and getting up to speed • Responsible for defining and developing a client side e-Commerce framework to facilitate internal implementations of commerce components in our apps. Includes writing (RESTful) API specs • Helping out with RFPs and meeting with potential partners A few applications I worked on: • Dash - Pay on your Phone at Bars and Restaurants. Lead developer (team of 2) on the first version of the app. (http://apple.co/N13YG4) • Rent The Runway. Joined the development team a few weeks prior to first version release and helped out on a few features. (http://apple.co/1nF9ZDL) • Foodtweeks. Took over the app development starting post v2 release. Lead developer (team of 2) (http://apple.co/1G58bx0) • Welcome app (ongoing work, internal app using iBeacons to greet employees when they come in the office). Owner and main developer • David's Bridal. Universal app (iPhone and iPad). Lead developer (http://apple.co/1bspBMi) • SoulCycle. Brought the app from prototype to the app store and a tremendous success. (http://apple.co/1GhuFQF) From May 2013 to June 2015 (2 years 2 months) Greater New York City AreaSr. iOS Developer @ About my role: • Mobile software developer, mainly working on/with iOS (iPhone/iPad) • Passionate about animations (core animation and openGL ES knowledge) and UX My tasks on a daily basis may include: • iOS development, Software architecture • Functional or Technical specifications writing • APIs integration. (RestKit knowledge) • Code reviews and QA • Projects and Releases management (certificates, provisioning, AdHoc or appStore releases) • Teams management. • Responsible for iOS interns • Git master • Technical or UX consulting • Process improvement • Occasional clients facing/meeting A few applications I worked on: • Bulova Macy's iPad app. App used to showcase Bulova watches in Macy's stores. Sole developer. Internal use, not in the app store. • Jackthreads iPhone app. Main animations developer, including 3D openGL ones. Also involved in some features development and bugs fixes. (http://bit.ly/UTmpgw) • Gayot Restaurant issue. Sole developer (http://bit.ly/RoBsje) • Greenstack. Lead developer on the first version of the app. Team of 2 to 3 developers (http://bit.ly/UTmssw) • Definer. Side developer. Helped on features development and bugs fixes. Also involved in defining/improving the app UX (http://bit.ly/RoBtUu) • Ribbon. Lead developer. Involved in every aspect of the app development, including project and team technical management, development, RESTful API integration, UX improvements, and more... (http://bit.ly/11dJ2Lf) • Charitybuzz. Co-developer on the first version of the app. (http://bit.ly/1gsl4aM) From August 2011 to May 2013 (1 year 10 months) Greater New York City AreaFreelance Engineer @ • Designed (software and database architecture) and developed (C/C++, SQLite, Qt) a multiplatform “birth referential” software. • Wrote the functional and technical specifications. • Developed a full license management system that comes with the software (licence number generation and management via CMS, machine activation process, demo VS full versions, variable features set option) • Self-trained in C++ (knowledge refresh), Qt 4, XCode IDE, copy protection issues From September 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 4 months) Technical Analyst + Junior Release Manager (Client Services) @ • As a technical consultant, took part in the ongoing software development work on Anvil, a complete repo and securities finance solution, including product installations, systems integration, client specific development (Actions/Forms, Perl, Sybase) or bug fixing. • Later as a junior release manager, prepared and delivered patches or main Anvil releases, wrote upgrade scripts, performed benchmarking, monitored the bug tracking and builds/upgrades checking systems, sent statistics reports. From January 2009 to April 2010 (1 year 4 months) London, United KingdomEmbedded Software Engineer @ • Developed (C, Shellscript) some functionalities for a Linux/ARM embedded system (digital photo frame). Worked on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, PPP automat, Picasa/Flickr client, audio-video player. • In charge of the release management/integration phase (sources hunting and cross-compiling, firmware/bootloader flashing, basic testing, QA/client delivering). • Active participation in most stages of the project. • Attended a few client-facing meetings (Orange France). From January 2007 to December 2007 (1 year) Paris Area, FranceSoftware developer @ • Designed and developed (C/C++, MFC) an accountancy management software (small ERP) from the functional specifications document. • Used UML modeling and object oriented programming techniques such as design patterns. From October 2005 to December 2005 (3 months) Lille Area, FranceMaster’s Degree, Real time and embedded systems @ EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique From 2002 to 2007 Paul Miard is skilled in: Software Engineering, Git, Software Development, iOS development, Mobile Applications, Objective-C, OOP, Xcode, C++, User Experience, Design Patterns, iOS, PHP, MySQL, OpenGL