Kurt Revis

krevis@snoize.com
http://www.snoize.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/krevis
https://github.com/krevis

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary

Senior/lead level software engineer, with 15 years experience developing Mac
and iOS applications.

I love solving hard problems, fixing impossible bugs, and learning whole new
domains. I'm not happy unless the whole team is succeeding; I contribute by
finding and removing obstacles, creating coherent architecture and APIs, and
answering a lot of questions.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Experience and History

Senior Software Engineer
Avatron Software	http://www.avatron.com
October 2011 --

Developing a new iOS / Mac product.


Senior Software Engineer
Apple, Inc.  http://www.apple.com
January 2003 -- April 2010

In the iWork group at Apple, shipped several releases of Keynote, Pages,
Numbers, and iWeb, on both Mac and iPad.

- For iWork for iPad, designed and implemented a new, Core Animation-based
  graphics and interaction framework, which was essential to all 3 apps. We
  built a revolutionary touch-based UI, pushing the limits of an untried OS
  and hardware, and shipped on schedule!

- Lead engineer for the graphics system used by all the Mac apps, built on
  OpenGL, Quartz, and Cocoa.

- Designed and implemented new features, from high-level UI to low-level
  details, across the whole suite. Was involved with text, document storage,
  import/export, performance, HTML widgets, and essentially anything that
  appeared on the screen.

- Went through the whole product lifecycle, several times. Did estimates and
  scheduling, decided on feature sets for releases, presented proposals, wrote
  prototypes and documentation, and filed for patents.

- Led a team of two other engineers. Ran daily scrum meetings.

- Coordinated with the whole team: design, engineering, QA, product
  management, and marketing. Answered questions for scores of other engineers,
  both local and remote.

- Wrote, triaged, analyzed, and fixed thousands of bug reports.


Senior Software Engineer
The Omni Group  http://www.omnigroup.com/
April 1998 -- July 2001

Worked on a variety of Mac OS X and WebObjects projects, for consulting
clients and for Omni directly. Highlights:

- Led development of a vertical-market store management application for Mac OS
  X, Salon Transcripts. Worked with the client and end users on the
  specification, and managed two other engineers.

- Wrote proposals and estimates for potential consulting work.

- Added features to, and fixed bugs in, the web browser OmniWeb (winner of two
  Apple Design Awards in 2001).

- Performed upgrades, developed bug fixes, and cleaned up the architecture of
  the online store of a major software company.

- Wrote Mac OS X, Windows, and WebObjects applications that worked with
  relational databases (Oracle, FrontBase, DB2, and Sybase).


Software Engineer
Edmark
January 1996 -- April 1998

Developed original multimedia education titles for Macintosh and PC,
including 3 shipping CD-ROMs, using C++ and in-house cross-platform
libraries. Collaborated with teams of programmers, artists, sound
designers, and educators. Also developed a prototype implementation of a
"kid safe" web browser for the Mac, using custom code on top of Internet
Explorer.


Software Engineer
SPRY/CompuServe Internet Division
June 1995 -- January 1996

Developed a user-friendly account creation and network configuration
application for Internet in a Box for the Macintosh, using C++ and
PowerPlant. Also developed Windows 95-specific enhancements for the web
browser SPRY Mosaic, using Visual C++ and MFC.


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Skills

Expert in:

- iOS app development (iPad and iPhone), including Cocoa Touch (UIKit),
  Quartz, and Core Animation
- Mac OS X app development, including Cocoa and WebKit
- Mac OS X and iOS performance tuning
- Objective-C, Objective-C++, and C languages
- Object-oriented design and patterns
- Xcode

Proficient in:
- Audio and MIDI programming on Mac OS X (CoreAudio)
- Web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, AJAX
- OpenGL
- C++, AppleScript languages
- UNIX programming and scripting
- Source control with Git, Subversion, and CVS

Familiar with:
- Web application development with Ruby on Rails
- Web client implementation: Rendering, JavaScript implementation, TCP/IP
  programming
- Relational database design
- Platform-independent coding
- Java, Haskell, Perl, SQL, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk languages


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Education

B.S., Engineering and Applied Science, concentration in Computer Science
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
June 1995


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Personal Projects

MIDI Monitor and SysEx Librarian

Two MIDI utility applications for Mac OS X. Useful for working with
external MIDI devices (like synthesizers), troubleshooting, and testing 
apps and drivers. Released as Open Source: http://github.com/krevis/MIDIApps