Portfolio for Ryan Jones

CAREER SUMMARY

Over 24 years I’ve architected over a dozen apps and countless websites. I utilize my design degree to help make the best UX choices. I have managed teams, worked for Fortune 100 companies, helped grow start-ups, and ran my own consultancy.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Lead a team of 7+ developers to create a Android Kotlin/Jetpack news app for a Fortune 100 national cable provider, modernizing a sports highlights app, and creating a new app for a tvOS experience
• Profiled and improved app performance via metrics and contributed to a video composition feature for a social networking photo app with millions of DAUs
• Created an 24+ member A/V Club to create unique videos for company-wide events (filming, producing, directing, editing) using Final Cut Pro / Motion and Premiere / After Effects
• Mobile Community, wrote a blog posts, helped innovate office beer app, contributed to Slalom as a whole with culture and internal initiatives
• Managed a team of up to 6 developers to build universal iOS Bowflex Max Intelligence™ iOS platform to connect over BLE to the Max Trainer workout machine, which launched on November 19, 2018
• Researched and presented about (Part 1 & 2) training a model for machine learning for CoreML

• Modernized both Wyzant iOS apps to the latest APIs, Swift 3, and additional code coverage
• Increased apps’ crash stability to 99.9%
• Architected new app foundation via protocol oriented programming in Swift
• Added accessibility (a11y) support
• Interviewed and onboarded new iOS hires

• Founded a full-service design and development company. Psychomomo specializes in helping clients solve problems with software
• Self-motivated to code, design, find clients, company administration, and manage projects and timelines
• Worked with existing client project managers, designers, and developers
• iOS apps developed: Lock, Rocketmiles, KiddieNotes, Re-Cycle, ParkWhiz, and Laser Meme

• Lead a team of 4 developers to create version 2.0 in less than 3 months to launch before football season 2015
• Developed a synchronous live-draft web socket engine to draft in real-time
• Helped raise a $5mm Series A round of funding based on SportsLock 1.0, and initial $2mm seed from the Lock app
• Submitted over 20 app updates in less than a year, approximately every 2 weeks
• Influenced the user experience, through every company interaction with the user (app, email, website, etc)

• Remotely augmented the DC team to launch the completely redesigned Fly Delta iPhone app version 2.0
• Developed areas of functionality including the cart summary, trip upgrades, special services, receipt history, and first class upgrades
• Fly Delta was featured by Apple during the iPhone 5 keynote (46:05 mark).
• Added dynamic PDF generation export to the USPS iPad app on a tight timeline

• Architected and engineered two enterprise-level frameworks: one in Objective-C for iPads, and a Flash-based ActionScript 3 version for desktops
• iPad framework was distributed to over 2,000 pharmaceutical sales representatives
• Deeply involved in strategizing solutions to business problems with creative technological solutions, taking into account UX, design, and timelines
• Worked with external IT teams to distribute iPad apps in enterprise environments
• Created (visual design, development, and UX) a cross-platform desktop application eVE builder for drag-and-drop sqlite database creation

• Helped AbelsonTaylor become recognized by Adobe and become an Adobe Gold Partner from work on the eVE Flex Framework

• Lead developers, managed interactive projects, and mentored junior devs to elevate the level of work with developmental and technological recommendations
• Continually sought after by creative directors and managers to be a rock solid resource for technology, development, and design related questions
• Wrote and gave presentations tailored to any audience