Profile

I am a software developer relentless in the pursuit of engineering elegance. I make it my goal to design technology with the human in mind, crafting a usable and intuitive user interface experience and highly readable and easily maintainable source code for efficient development.

I am intensely passionate about, and skilled in, engineering Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPad applications using Cocoa and Objective-C. I have been fluent with the frameworks, language, and development tools since 2004. Combined with my rich knowledge of Cocoa’s (and the iPhone SDK's) APIs, programmatic conventions, and style, I strive to echo the elegance of the platform in my own work and ultimately design truly polished technology.

Professional Experience

iPhone, iPad Developer - Independent / Contractor

Foremost App: (Harvest iPhone Application)

• Developed and designed all aspects of Harvest.
• Harvest was featured by Apple in nationwide television advertising, on the front page of the App Store, and ranked as high as the #2 paid reference application.
• Harvest's wide user base has never yielded a single crash report.
• Contacted to develop applications for numerous other high profile clients.

Camino Web Browser Project - Open Source Software Engineer

(caminobrowser.org) [2006-present]

• Designed and developed many major features in Camino. Work includes: smoothly-animated drag and drop reordering of the tab bar, built-in search engine management, OpenSearch plug-in parsing with associated auto-discovery, anti-phishing/safe browsing, major overhaul of keyboard accessibility and our key-view loop, the popup blocker, in-line spell checking, crash detection, misc drag and drop additions, CJK font support, and various usability fixes.
• Regularly review my peers’ source code.
• Constantly submit new bug reports.
• Pinpointed and solved one of our most widespread crashing bugs to date.
• When I implemented tab reordering, it was our most requested feature and 15th oldest unfixed bug in project history.

Murphy Jewelers - Director of Technology & Networking

Pottsville and Hamburg, PA [1999-present]

• Solely responsible for managing all aspects of technology/software/hardware at a multi-store jewelry business.
• I have been the sole source provider of technology support for the past 8 years.
• Lead copywriter and sole designer of all print, billboard, and web advertisements.
  Ad design portfolio is at http://seanmurph.com/advertising-portfolio/.
• Custom built all computer systems and wired a LAN for each store.
• Established a reliable VPN to securely synchronize business operations between stores.
• Administer nightly off-site backups and in-house emailing lists.

Murphy Jewelers - Web Designer

Pottsville, PA (murphyjewelers.com) [2001-present]

• Following strict standards-based web design with XHTML and CSS, developed a highly praised web presence.
• Hosted web and email with an on-site FreeBSD-powered server for two years.
• Authored a unique online catalog viewer using Adobe Flash/Actionscript.

Cover Me With Love - Web Designer and Systems Administrator

Sag Harbor, NY (covermewithlove.org) [August 2006-present]

• Volunteered my services and developed a fashionable, standards-based web site for a non-profit organization.
• Host a webmail system for the staff.

Schuylkill Women in Crisis - Digital Video Editor

Pottsville, PA [August 2007-present]

• Produced two commercials and two 30+ minute educational videos for a local non-profit organization.

Pottsville Housing Authority - SUMMER CAMP Counselor


Pottsville, PA [june-august, 2004 and 2005]

• Taught underprivileged children various computer skills as part of a summer recreation program.
• Coordinated games and other activities for the kids.

Other Experience

• Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, 2006.
• C4 Independent Mac Developer Conference, 2007.
• iDev 360 iPhone Developer Conference, 2009.
• Voices the Matter iPhone Developer Conference, 2009.
• Very active in helping other developers on Apple’s Cocoa Development and Xcode Users Mailing Lists:
  http://www.google.com/search?q=site:cocoabuilder.com+%22Sean+Murphy%22 and StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/66662/sean-murphy
• Author of technical articles about software development on my website: http://seanmurph.com/writings/
• Lead Adobe Photoshop designer on my high school’s nationally recognized and award winning yearbook team.

Technical Knowledge

• Strength and passion: developing Mac OS X and iPhone OS software using Cocoa, the iPhone-SDK, and Objective-C.
• Rich awareness of and strict practitioner of Cocoa/iPhone coding conventions and style.
• Complete comprehension of memory management in Cocoa.
• Use of Xcode with complex projects.
• Extensive knowledge of C.
• Low-level programming aspects such as machine structure, linking, and loading.
• Object Oriented Design Patterns and how to apply them to Objective-C.
• The importance of readable code, by using clear, explicit method and variable names and effective commenting.
• How to design cohesive objects, incorporate abstractions, and rely on encapsulation to isolate and guard against change.
• Daily interaction with version control software. (Git for my own work; familiarity with Mercurial and Subversion.)
• Web standards, including XHTML and CSS.
• Adobe Photoshop, for web graphics, print advertising, and UI mockups.
• FreeBSD from a user and administrator standpoint.
• Able to troubleshoot just about any Windows XP problem.

References are available upon request.