iOS and Android applications engineer with a background in visual design. Focused on clean, modular architecture and behavior driven development. Extensive experience developing business applications for mobile devices and wearables. Specialties: - iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch development - Android development, Material Design - Node.js / building REST APIs and realtime client/server applications - Websockets/realtime browser applications - Building Jenkins instances and build automation scripts - Unit testing, server/database mocking, testing automation

Senior iOS Engineer @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaiOS Development Lead @ Lead developer for customer-facing iPhone/iPad applications From February 2015 to September 2015 (8 months) Sr. iOS Software Developer @ Team Lead for Customer Care and Social Moderation Platforms: ‣ Team lead for Shoutlet’s customer care and social network moderation platforms. ‣ Oversaw front end PHP/JS/CSS architecture, code quality, collaboration with service API teams and product development team. ‣ Built and deployed a distributed Node.js web service for realtime messaging and notifications within the Shoutlet platform and front-end UI components in Ember.js ‣ Built JSON validation tools for establishing a “contract” between back-end APIs and front-end consumers. ‣ Implemented message queues to move process/time intensive tasks to the background. Senior Mobile Applications Engineer: ‣ Developed native iOS and Android mobile apps that integrate with the Shoutlet platform ‣ Work with product/design team to ensure efficient and user-friendly mobile design patterns are followed ‣ Set up and maintain automated unit and integration tests, build shared frameworks and reusable iOS/Mac OS X components, continuous integration using Jenkins and code coverage tools From July 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 8 months) Mobile Software Engineer @ From June 2010 to June 2013 (3 years 1 month) Interaction Designer / Web Developer @ From June 2008 to June 2010 (2 years 1 month) Web Design/Development, Icons/graphics/layouts design @ Design and management of company's websites. Visual design, layouts, mockups, icons, graphics Development of Ruby On Rails web applications and REST web services. Working the sales/marketing staff on SEO and company web presence. From June 2008 to June 2010 (2 years 1 month) Intern @ Element design, live action tasks, production-related tasks From September 2008 to December 2008 (4 months)

BFA, Computer Graphics @ School of Visual Arts From 2007 to 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Motion Graphics Design @ Minneapolis College of Art and Design From 2006 to 2007 Andy Rifken is skilled in: User Experience, Tablets, Graphic Design, iOS, REST, Android, Mobile Applications, Ruby on Rails, SEO, Agile Methodologies, Git, Web Applications, User Interface Design, Node.js, Spring, HTML