Benjamin Pearson Senior Android engineer Personal statement Passionate software engineer with over a decade of commercial experience. A strong technical lead with commitment towards progress and a passion for great solutions. With extensive experience of different agile methodologies, I work well either solo or as part of a team. Key skills       Core: Android, Java, Gradle, ANT, JUnit, Proguard Android/Java Libraries: Retrofit, Gson, GreenDao, Dagger, ButterKnife, OkHttp, EventBus, Maps, YouTube, SqlCipher, Robolectric, Mockito, Android Support libraries, many more Server side: RESTful API design, JSON, C# Operating Systems: Android (All versions), OS X, Linux, Windows Environments/applications: Android Studio, Eclipse, Omnigraffle, Visual studio, Photoshop, Google Play developer console, IAB SCM+CI: Git, Jenkins, Team Foundation Server, Subversion Recent Apps SwimBritain Companion event app for logging swims and tracking fitness. Judo Reference Personal app to help with teaching. Pushing 100,000 downloads. Busuu Social language learning app used by millions worldwide. Mindful Minutes Personal app with inspirational quotes and meditation reminders. My Galaxy Port samsung My Galaxy from phone to tablet including new layout. Fashionably Skint Borrow and lend clothes easily by creating a virtual wardrobe. Caversham Festival Live streaming from each stage on closed WiFi. Browse schedule and star bands. Groove Ball Personal game; navigate through a maze by tilting the phone. Off The Grid Personal app to generate random passwords using a latin square as a seed. Experience NimbleTank, Senior Android engineer (2 months) NDA: Sometimes I'm asked to work on projects that are under non-disclosure agreement. Net-a-porter, Android consultant (3 months) Mentoring a team of junior developers and re-architecting common libraries for use across all brands. Limelight sports (British Gas), Android consultant (4 months) Took the Swim Britain companion app for British Gas through the whole development lifecycle. Liaised with the client to deliver the first stage and helped their development team design the RESTful APIs. Wireframed, built and delivered the app. Busuu, Senior Android engineer (3 months) Busuu's language learning app for Android has been completely re-architected and written from the ground up. I joined the team to provide guidance and help write the code. User base of over a million. Samsung (Monitise Create), Senior Android engineer (3 months) Samsung “My Galaxy” app port from mobile only version to tablet supported version for their range of new devices coming to the market. Estimated user base of 10 million, to expand to 100 million when rolled out globally. App to be pre-installed on newer Samsung galaxy devices. ben@rdydev.com : 07875 22 4731 : http://rdyonline.net Benjamin Pearson Senior Android engineer Volume, Android engineer & C# Developer (2 years) Part of a strong team of 15 at a global, award winning, B2B company.  Android app development targeting Gingerbread, ICS, JellyBean  “Top gun” (valued employee) – inaugurated into the “top gun” club by receiving the annual award  C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server app development for Dell, Oracle and other enterprise businesses  Client side development – Javascript/jQuery, HTML 5 UBC, Software Engineer (2 years) UBC acquired CDR in 2009. I was the sole employee to remain employed from the CDR Chicago office (A team of 17). In addition to development, I wrote technical and procedural documents. CDR, Software Engineer (4 years) Originally started part time; after 6 months, they encouraged me to take on a permanent position. Worked in the London and Chicago offices. Based in Chicago for 6 months. Key technologies used: SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, .NET 2005 (VB/ASP), J++ (Java). Manage multiple long and short term projects:  Re-write of CDR software from ground up (2006 – 2008) – Major project in which myself and two other developers completely restructured and re-wrote the core company software used by the core business daily basis. Provided training throughout the transition period.  Many concurrent projects running alongside the Re-write to help increase efficiency of other departments within the company. Each and every project seen through to fruition without sacrificing the Re-write target date. Education Birmingham H.O.T.T – 2007 VB.NET Advanced Reading College – 2002 – 2006 HND Computing – Merit Software Engineering double award (A-Levels) Reading College – 2001 E-Learning C++ Course Langtree school – 1996 – 2000 GCSE – English B, English Lit B, Maths C, Science double C, C + 5 other grade B/C Achievements        “Top gun” (most valued employee) award at Volume Wrote several successful Android applications and Android game in spare time. Architected core business applications integral to operation from scratch (CDR/UBC) Wrote software interface for proprietary hardware while adhering to clinical standards (UBC) Proved to have tightened security on vulnerable externally facing web servers (CDR) Internally transferred to America for a year to ease transition to previously mentioned core applications (CDR) Black belt in Judo. Now teaching a class of ~25 seniors and a class of ~40 juniors Personal Details Driving licence: clean/full Health: Excellent. Judoka, Climber, Runner, Non-smoker. Languages: French (GCSE, written+spoken), Japanese (Oxford university adult education, written+spoken) Interests: Technology, Judo, Rock climbing, Running, Magic, Tango. ben@rdydev.com : 07875 22 4731 : http://rdyonline.net