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Software Developer
Boston, MA, United States
Toptal member since February 26, 2018
Bio
Mike has been developing on iOS since 2010, with over 15 apps shipped to the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. He mainly develops with Swift, Objective-C, and Python, but also has experience in other areas including web development. Mike also has an extensive musical background, and much of his iOS work has been in the music category.
Portfolio
Freelance
Xcode, Objective-C, Swift
Independent
Objective-C, iOS
Experience
- Objective-C - 9 years
- iOS - 9 years
- Xcode - 9 years
- Git - 5 years
- Swift - 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Git, MacOS, Xcode
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was an iPad app that generates jazz music based on chords entered by the user.
Work Experience
iOS Developer
2013 - 2016
Freelance
- Developed an iOS app to display an animated slideshow of images over recorded jazz music.
- Created an iPhone app to display sheet music in sync with recorded audio. Transcribed the solo saxophone parts from the artist's albums in order to create the sheet music as pdf, which would then be rendered in a scrollview, which would be animated to the correct position by observing the audio playback.
- Built an iPad app to playback video music lessons, with sheet music displayed simultaneously.
- Developed an Alarm Clock app that used notifications to wake up the user with the artist's smooth jazz recordings.
- Rebuilt the teaching section of an artist's website as an iOS app.
- Developed and shipped over 15 apps for clients as a freelancer, specializing in music education apps.
Technologies: Xcode, Objective-C, Swift
iOS Developer
2010 - 2013
Independent
- Developed an iPhone app for music students to practice recognizing chords and scales.
- Developed an iPad app that generates piano, bass and drum parts, based on chords and tempo selected by the user, and plays the music while displaying the sheet music. This is background music the musician can use to practice soloing.
- Built an iOS app that helps a musician discover new pentatonic scales, and create their own. This included a Guitar Tab display.
- Created a tuning app for classical musicians.
- Ported iPhone apps to iPad and Mac.
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS
Experience
Chops
https://tonalapps.com/chops-for-macintosh/A practicing aid for musicians. To practice improvising on your instrument, enter the chords you want to practice over, select a tempo, and hit play. It includes a number of musical genres, and it comes with a library of over 250 standard jazz chord progressions.
Ear Training
https://tonalapps.com/eartraining/An iOS app to practice recognizing chords and scales by ear. The app included a multiple choice quiz mode.
Pentatonica
https://tonalapps.com/pentatonica/An iOS app for studying pentatonic scales. The app included algorithms for finding which scales fit over a selected chord, or vice versa, as well as a feature for creating your own scale.
Concert A
https://tonalapps.com/concert-a/A tuner for classical musicians. The app provides an A at 440hz, which can be adjusted if another tuning is needed.
Walter Beasley Transcriptions
This iOS app was a collection of the artist's recordings, and the accompanying sheet music. The sheet music would scroll in sync with the audio playback. In-App purchase was included so the user could buy one song at a time. I developed the app for iPhone and iPad, and transcribed the sheet music.
Sax Meditations
This iOS app was a collection of the artist's photography combined into a slideshow, and displayed along with audio playback of the artist's music.
Groove Bass Concepts with David Dyson
This app displayed video music lessons by a professional bass guitar instructor. It was a mobile version of an existing web application.
Dominant 7 to Minor 7 Improvisation
A saxophone jazz improvisation training app that included video, musical notation display, and downloadable sheet music.
Education
2001 - 2003
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
Boston University - Boston, MA
1996 - 1999
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music
Berklee College of Music - Boston, MA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
CocoaPods, jQuery
Tools
Xcode, Git
Languages
Objective-C, Swift, SQL, HTML, Python, JavaScript, CSS
Frameworks
Cocoa, Vapor, Django
Platforms
iOS, Firebase, MacOS
Storage
MySQL
Other
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