Senior iOS Developer for the NOW TV iOS app.

Senior iOS Developer

Developing the iOS app for Travel Republic and dnata Travel. The app allows you to browse hotels and flights, through to completing your booking. Been heavily involved in a significant amount of refactoring of legacy codebase from Objective-C to Swift, in addition to working closely with designers to improve the look and feel of the app, as well as the code. Also completed extensive rewrite of the 'Manage Your Booking' section allowing users to do things post-booking like adding extras to their booking, and viewing all the details they might need at the airport or for hotel checking.

Senior software engineer for a white label cross platform mobile application for checking train times, planning journeys, and buying tickets for any train anywhere in the UK. Tickets purchased can either be delivered to the phone as a barcode, or picked up at the station. This product was the official app for many train operating companies, including Virgin Trains, Great Western Railway, and Arriva Trains Wales. Working on this app for such a long time meant continually keeping it up to date with changes from Apple including support new screen sizes, the introduction of storyboards, and of course the UI changes for iOS7.

Senior Software Engineer

Developing J2ME application for completing surveys. Also worked on the server side that the client synchronises with to download new survey definitions, and to upload completed surveys. Seperately worked on creating from scratch an iPhone version.

Senior Software Developer

In this role I developed software to run on M2M embedded devices in industrial environments, which would perform a set of tasks locally, communicate with a web service to upload data, and receive updated configuration, etc. Also designed and implemented embedded Java software to communicate with a third party's controller located inside escalators and travelators. This app periodically communicated over a serial protocol to read data from the controller, and then uploaded them to a central server for analysis.

Software Engineer

JSP scripting to develop a web app for generating reports on internal services. Worked with both Sybase, and Oracle. Also did some shell scripting, using the Korn shell. Gained experience with Solaris, and completed Solaris 10 Administrator Course.

IT Operations Intern

Assisting the lecturer in a lab environment with first year students learning Java. Position involved being readily available to assist students with problems they encountered while learning Java. Typical problems included compilation errors, and helping the student understand what the error messages mean and how to rectify the problem. Also sometimes sitting down with the student to help them further understand programming concepts such as loops, functions, and classes.

Teaching Assistant

Working in mobile for over ten years across a range of devices, but specialising on iOS for the last seven years. Comfortable writing in both Objective-C and Swift, and experienced at building out UI designs using Interface Builder and Auto Layout.

Senior iOS developer with years of experience in both Swift and Objective-C

Steven Gurr

Travel Republic's iOS app for booking holidays, and then managing all aspects of the booking, adding extras like additional baggage or an airport transfer.

Travel Republic

A little DIY project I made in my own time as I wanted a quick and easy way to check train departure times, and save favourite journeys for checking the daily commute.

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