Tristan O'Tierney
Email: tristan AT otierney DOT net
Website: http://www.otierney.net
Address: 2001 Elliott St. Apt. F, San Jose, CA 95128
Phone: 408-877-6660

OBJECTIVE
    To write compelling Mac and iPhone software that users will love.

EDUCATION
    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY    
    B.S. in Computer Science   
    Cumulative GPA: 3.5, Field of Study GPA: 3.8

LANGUAGES
    4 years HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS, and JavaScript    
    4 years Java 
    5 years C, C++, Objective-C

SKILLS
    Other Languages: VB 6, C#, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Perl, Scheme, Lisp, Bash
    Operating Systems: Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows 98/2000/XP    
    Software: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio 6/.NET, Vim,
    Xcode, Flash, Photoshop, TextMate

PROJECTS
    Obama '08: Front end developer on the official Obama '08 iPhone
    application. Worked on the "Call Friends" and "Get Involved" features.

    FlickrBooth: Reverse engineered Photo Booth and wrote FlickrBooth using
    Objective-C, FScript Anywhere, classdump, and the ObjectiveFlickr Framework
    as a 24 hour Yahoo! Hack Day project.
	
    Objective-C: Modified and wrote several examples for an Objective-C
    beginners guide.  My tutorial is listed on GNUStep's website and is the
    top google result for "Objective-C tutorial."
    
    CocoaMySQL: Submitted patches to the open source application CocoaMySQL to
    add binary data importing and exporting, as well as BLOB field editing and
    binary image previewing.            
    
    Cage Fighter: Developed Cage Fighter to alter the button styles of 
    Mail.app in Mac OS X Tiger.  Linked by notable websites such as Ars 
    Technica and mentioned in MacWorld Magazine.
    
EXPERIENCE
    iPhone Contractor: (08/08 - present)
    Contracting for private reputable clients on iPhone applications.

    Senior iPhone Programmer: Tapulous, Inc, Palo Alto, CA (06/08 - 10/08)
    Cocoa Touch Programmer for a location based messaging client called Twinkle,
    in addition to a shared authentication and profile library called Core Social.

    Cocoa/C++ Programmer: VMware Inc, Palo Alto, CA (11/07 - 06/08)
    UI programmer for VMware Fusion, a consumer oriented Mac virtualization product.

    Cocoa/C++ Programmer: Apple Inc, Cupertino, CA (05/07 - 11/07)
    UI programmer for Mac version of Safari.  Job functions also include
    working on C++ based cross platform WebCore.
	
    Cocoa Programmer: Yahoo! Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (10/05 - 05/07)
    Core developer of Yahoo! Messenger 3.0 for Mac OS X.

    Contracting Cocoa Programmer: Krupa Systems LLC (5/05 - 10/05)
    Worked on an Objective-C/Cocoa desktop application.  Project is currently
    under NDA.

ACTIVITIES
    OpenDarwin: (1/05 - present) OpenDarwin member and contributor.  Submitted
    over 60 darwinports.

    WWDC: (6/04) Team won 1st place in WWDC student coding competition out of 
    30 teams.

    MacRIT: (9/04 - 10/05) President for the 2005-2006 academic year.

    RIT PUB: (9/04 - 6/05)  System administrator for a Debian Linux based
    web, dns, and mail server that's home to over 100 users and 150 domains.