nick michon

* Continued my work at Kijiji, transitioning to a permanent position at our iOS development headquarters * A particular emphasis that year on switching all new development to Swift, while maintaining our large Objective-C legacy codebase * Increasing the scope of our unit tests and automated ui tests

* Built an extensible Geo-mapping and Search application/platform for internal TELUS teams * Supports large datasets (SQLite), geo-clustering (Kingpin), encryption (SQLCipher) * Analytics and marketing integration with Google Analytics, Urban Airship

Worked on a team which ported 4 titles to a range of 30-60 handsets each on Cingular and Verizon

* Assisted in the development and launch of Harmony Link for the iPad and iPhone, which utilizes a rich interface and built-in programming guide to act as the modern Universal Remote (utilizing a proprietary hub to fire RF codes) * Implemented various UI improvements and features * http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/20/logitechs-harmony-link-transforms-your-ios-device-or-android-ph/

Responsible for developing a health management app for diabetics that runs on iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch) and integrates with consumer-grade medical devices (blood glucose monitors) All development done in Objective-C, and features web synchronization (through JSON-RPC) to our custom server, medical device synchronization over Bluetooth, persistence using the Core Data API and custom interactive charts using Cocoa

* Conceptualized and implemented the “Asurion Mobile Addressbook” prototype for Android * Responsible for server development, using J2EE in Eclipse under Spring using Servlets, JSP, Ajax, Javascript and SQLite * Review: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/asurion_social_address_book.php

Responsible for the system porting of Sudoku 3in1 on Sprint and T-mobile -Worked on a team to bring Fantastic 4 to a broad range of North American J2ME carriers (Sprint, T-mobile, Cingular, Nextel, Virgin, Telus)

Lead the client-side system integration with Cingular's billing and storefront system (Qpass E-Wallet) on 5 games, 15 handsets each (J2ME) -System porting and quality assurance of a combined 12 game projects for handsets on T-mobile, Cingular (J2ME) and some Verizon (BREW)

Graphical user interface screens and league simulation AI -Cross platform development in C++ for the XBox, PS2 and GameCube

Helped develop UNREAL, one of the top selling FPS videogame franchises Scripting of game events and tools for level designers using UnrealScript

Assisted in the implementation and testing of an experimental stereo vision system -Segmentation of range images into planar patches, detection of disparity, calibration of cameras, C under SGI Irix

Developed a GUI-based data-flow environment in Java for use in image processing -Implemented various image processing filters, code generators and web widgets

* First live-music rating mobile platform * Responsible for all client-side development duties on iOS from product inception * Worked closely with server engineers to define and integrate with our RESTful backend API * Integrated with various 3rd parties directly from the iOS client, including Amazon AWS (S3, TVM), iTunes search, Google API's, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Songkick * App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/syzzle/id506451802

* Conceptualized and developed “LEXI COLUMNS”, an action oriented head-to-head word game for the iPhone * Conceptualized and developed “NUCULIS”, a fast-paced action/puzzle game that runs on all iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) * Developed “AUDIENCER” for Android, which uses the Songkick API to show you events happening in your area (concerts, festivals) * App Store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nuculis/id385697760?mt=8 * App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/lexi-columns/id579488241?mt=8 * Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nickmichon.audiencer

Member of a globally distributed team responsible for Classifieds apps used by millions of people around the world Worked in a common codebase between Canada (Kijiji), Australia (Gumtree), UK (Gumtree), Italy (Annunci), South Africa (Gumtree), Argentina (Alamaula) and Mexico (Vivanuncios) Formal development processes, GitFlow, GitHub pull requests, JIRA