PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Brightening the lives of avid DIY embroidery enthusiasts by designing and developing an iOS 9 iPad app to augment multi-platform computer aided design software products (app is ready for App Store submission and review).
• Incorporated UISplitViewController, UINavigationViewController, UITableView, UICollectionView, UIToolbar, UIPopoverPresentationController, UIActivityViewController, and other UIKit components in building state-of-the-art user interface/user experience.
• Created an object-oriented class hierarchy to support multiple (4) file systems using the base class via polymorphism/late-binding.*
• Made browsing for embroidery design files and directories contained in all file systems intuitive and visual; designed and implemented Explorer/Finder-like hierarchical file system navigator using UICollectionView (backed by *OOP class hierarchy).
• Kept user interface responsive while background processing occurred using GCD and @synchronized (mutex, to protect critical sections).
• Leveraged Adaptive Auto Layout and Asset Catalog (@1x, @2x, @3x) so user interface runs seamlessly on any sized iPad, and is fully rotatable.
• Leveraged MVC, Delegation, Singleton, Facade and Observer (notifications) design patterns -- especially MVC in supporting multiple file systems using the same class hierarchy.
• Developed new feature which wowed attendees at recent trade conference: visual transfer of design files from UICollectionView via HTTP to Toshiba FlashAir wireless SD card and AirStash USB wireless SD card reader.
• Linked core C++ embroidery computer aided design software into iOS app using Objective-C++ LLVM settings.
• Led project, guiding company owner and development team through the intricacies of iOS development -- especially elucidating the Human Interface Guidelines, and analyzed and designed stakeholder requirements.

• Increasing web traffic to http://bcgop.org, the official website of New Mexico's largest Republican county party.
• Increasing member involvement in county and statewide party activities.
• Serving as website administrator, web architect, web developer, site author, website coordinator, and website publisher.
• Extending the reach of the BCGOP's site by leveraging Responsive Web Design, using technologies like CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, WordPress, and Agile.

• Enhanced users' mind/body states by developing an iOS app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch which collects, analyzes and presents information about the human heart in real time, training users how to self-regulate using biofeedback.
• Created Swift code for iOS 8/9 to communicate wirelessly with Bluetooth Smart health devices (heart rate and blood pressure monitors) and interpret data into application-usable/human-readable format, leveraging Core Bluetooth.
• Apps use Core Bluetooth framework to communicate with HRM devices.
• Started porting iOS code to Android with the aid of tools like UML use case, class, and state diagrams.
• Leveraged Core Data for storing and graphing raw and processed heart rate data, including user annotations, and implemented an iCloud-enabled persistent store.
• Captivated users with animated and highly interactive UI/UX using UI Kit, Core Animation, Adaptive Auto Layout, size classes, and Dynamic Type/Text Kit/Core Text, e.g., allowing users to resize app text on demand.
• Developed web services and web apps using C#/ASP .NET 4.0/4.5 and Azure Mobile Services, i.e., building RESTful APIs and enabling push notifications.
• Took advantage of MVC, Delegation, Memento, Façade, and Observer design patterns.
• Led full SDLC, guiding researchers (i.e., neurologist and psychiatrist) in understanding mobile technologies.
• Analyzed and designed stakeholder requirements and met deadlines by practicing Agile/Scrum 2-week sprints.

• Improved quality control by analyzing complex mathematical requirements, designing, and developing web-based statistical production-line sampling software, written using C#/ASP .NET 4.0 with an Oracle 10g database back-end.
• Increased user productivity by analyzing, designing, developing, enhancing, testing, and maintaining a web-based manufacturing process flow management system, implemented in VB/ASP .NET 2.0 with a SQL Server 2012 database back-end, in uninterrupted production for over 4 years.
• Organized, analyzed, planned, and visualized new and existing code using Visual Studio's UML tools.
• Implemented Observer, Delegation, Façade, and Singleton design patterns.
• Individually received approximately 40 letters of gratitude; team was awarded 4 "outstanding" performance reviews which stated "contractors' performance consistently exceeded contract requirements."
• Analyzed and designed stakeholder requirements and met deadlines by practicing Agile/Scrum 2-week sprints.

• Created an iOS 7 Objective-C app in support of a candidate for Congress, leading all aspects of the app development lifecycle, from requirements specification to graphics to handling entire App Store review and submission process.
• Encouraged sharing of candidate information via email, SMS/iMessage, posting to Twitter, and posting to Facebook by customizing UIActivityViewController and allowing its activation in UI using "Share" button.
• Integrated Facebook and Twitter by creating dedicated UIWebView's embedded in UINavigationController's.
• Created custom printing code for PDF-, HTML-, and text-formatted documents using AirPrint (UI Kit printing API) classes like UIPrintInteractionController, UIPrintInfo, and UIViewPrintFormatter.
• Organized easily-navigable UI/UX by leveraging UI Kit classes like UIActivityIndicatorView, UIImageView, UITabBarController, UIToolbar, UINavigationBar/UINavigationController, UITableView/UITableViewController, UITextView/exclusion paths, UIPageViewController, UICollectionViewController, and MFMailComposeViewController.
• Contributed to development of several other iOS apps.
• Developed app back-ends, for example, exposing SQL Server 2008 data via a WCF RESTful, JSON-serialized service, written using C#/ASP .NET 4.0.
• Leveraged Façade, Singleton, MVC, Delegation, Memento, and Observer design patterns.
• Analyzed and designed stakeholder requirements and met deadlines by practicing Agile/Scrum 2-week sprints.

• Enhanced water quality monitoring product by designing and developing user interfaces which integrated desktop software with liquid analysis hardware devices.
• Analyzed and improved C/C++ device driver code for interfacing with hardware via serial communications.
• Modernized software by developing middleware factory interface between legacy VB desktop front-end and C/C++ hardware device drivers by leveraging C# .NET's object-oriented features (especially inheritance and polymorphism) and Visual Studio's UML tools, allowing users to connect to different devices dynamically (Factory design pattern).

• Enforced environmental standards and contractor accountability by developing web-based applications for state and federally-funded weatherization improvements for low-income homeowners.
• Translated complex project requirements provided by non-technical domain experts into user-friendly website interface using C#/ASP .NET with a SQL Server backend.
• Composed project documentation, developed presentations, wrote training documentation, and performed training.

• Improved stakeholders' engagement with their user bases by providing software analysis, design, development, support, and maintenance for websites, especially by leveraging content management systems, social media, mailing lists, online payment processing, and search engine optimization (SEO).
• Developed websites using .NET Framework (C#, ASP, SQL Server) and open source (PHP, MySQL, Linux), optimizing user interfaces using HTML, CSS, jQuery, AJAX, and JavaScript.

• Enhanced public safety by assisting law enforcement agencies upgrade from legacy data stores to modern, relational technologies (e.g., supporting 911 calls, offenses, arrests, evidence, incidents, etc.).
• Extracted data from legacy systems, requiring analysis, manual reverse-engineering, data pre-processing, multiple stages of data processing, and complex data conversion algorithms.
• Most data was migrated to SQL Server using Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS), VBScript, and C.

• Increased office efficiency by automating and integrating multiple business processes -- accounting, sales, scheduling, commissions, and training -- creating a desktop ERP system in C# .NET and SQL Server with Internet integration.
• Drove client engagement by creating e-commerce, B2B web applications used to promote retail sales and provide customer training and payment processing, implementing websites and back-ends in ASP .NET, VB .NET, C# .NET and SQL Server.
• Automated payment processing by developing C# class structure which extracted financial information from desktop client application and database, encoded data, transferred data to a 3rd-party payment processor via FTP, checked status of transfer, and reported success or failure to user.

• Helped exploratory and developmental cure for balance disorders gain market acceptance by developing a complex, software-driven diagnostic device which tracks, analyzes, and displays eye movements via a set of infrared-illuminated goggles (device now covered by Medicare).
• Developed advanced Windows desktop software in C# .NET to analyze several specific types of eye movements and provide graphical interpretations of those movements to diagnosticians.
• Saved time by structuring code into a reusable, extensible, and maintainable class hierarchy, designed with UML.
• Analyzed C/C++ software drivers for diagnostic devices and wrote and enhanced code (e.g., developed software to communicate over serial port with a balance sensor device to gather yaw, pitch and roll values).
• Sped device time to market by writing device documentation which received FDA approval faster than normal -- only minor revisions were required by the FDA for 510(k) Premarket Notification acceptance.
• Collaborated with neurologists, ENTs, electrical engineers, software developers, and salespeople to define device requirements, add enhanced features, and to collect information necessary to developing a viable commercial product.

EDUCATION

• MS in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1994
• Thesis published; subject: database reference model for network performance analysis
• GPA 4.0

• BS in Computer Science, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 1989
• Minors in Mathematics and Chemistry
• GPA 3.4

• Continuing education, in-process: Android, Node JS, Python, Data Analytics, Angular JS, Responsive Web Design

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "Booming cities team to roar as sisters." Albuquerque Journal No. 206, July 24, 2008, Business Outlook: 7. Click here for a full-color copy.

• Jaffee, Andrew L., and Frank Scarpino. "BalanceBack VNG System." FDA 510(k) Premarket Notification, August 10, 2004. (See here for FDA notification summary page.)

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "Dayton's plan for attracting the creative class." Dayton City Paper, October 15, 2003. Original copy to be posted ASAP (see cached Internet copy here).

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "A Tale of 2 Markets: Taking steps toward urban renewal." Dayton City Paper 1, No. 2, April 10-16, 2003: 12-13.

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "Becoming self-reliant: Program puts goals within reach." Impact Weekly 11, No. 5, Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2003: 6.

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "Joe.User - serving government." Internet World 7, No. 1, Jan. 1996: 92-94.

• Cotterell, Bill. "Legislature takes a giant step into the computer age." Tallahassee Democrat No. 66, March 7, 1995: 1 & 3.

• Jaffee, Andrew L., and C.R. Carlson, "A reference database design for stochastic network analysis." Proceedings of the International Association for Science and Technology for Development International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May 10-12, 1993: 142-146.

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "Catholic Social Services program emphasizes 'simple solution' of crisis prevention in Dayton." Catholic Telegraph, Feb. 7, 1992: 9.

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "'Captive nations' celebrate newly found freedoms." Catholic Telegraph 38, Sept. 20, 1991: 11-12.

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "Mindszenty speaker finds church, school rift with modernist errors." Catholic Telegraph 14, April 5, 1991: 3A.

• Jaffee, O.C., and Andrew L. Jaffee, "Ectopia cordis in the chick embryo heart - an experimental study." Teratology 41, 1990: 737-742.

• Chan, Yupo, Andrew Jaffee, and Brett Kottman, "Computer Graphics for Stochastic Network Analysis in Operational Sciences." ASEE 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics, June 11-15, 1990: 132-140.

• Jaffee, Andrew L. "Give Dayton a chance." Flyer News Vol. 36, No. 29, Feb. 16, 1989: 4-5.

• Jaffee, O.C. and Andrew L. Jaffee, "Ectopia cordis in the chick embryo heart: an experimental study." The Anatomical Record 220, No. 4, April 1988: 48A.