Macintosh OSX & iPhone/iPad IOS
programming and software

by Jean Tantra, Senior Software Engineer

An Apple programmer since 1986, I have over 15 years contracting experience, with a consistent track record of hitting the ground running and getting projects shipped on tight deadlines.

• Expertise: I am used to dealing with large amounts of other people's hastily written and hastily documented code. That means I get your project moving while other programmers are still coming up to speed. I have over 4000 open source projects upon which to draw libraries from.
  
• Experience: Over 4 years IOS, over 7  years Cocoa and Obj-C, over 10 years C, over 8 years C++/STL/OOP.  The usual RESTFul APIs with  JSON, XML data.  Years of experience with both legacy code maintenance and startups. I have worked on over 16 apps in the App store, many from start to finish. Experienced with most of the OSX/IOS frameworks.
  
• Porting: Extensive experience porting projects to the Macintosh and IOS.
• Audio: Extensive Core Audio expertise. Streaming. Multimedia voice over slide show apps. Eight channel audio mixer. Senior programmer for SonicStudio-HD, Sonic's high-end audio editing application suite. Maintaining a multi-threaded project with a million lines of code. Inventor of AudioAssistedText.
• Video: Core video, Streaming. Enhanced Commotion, a PhotoShop-like video editing/special effects application. Added features to Hitchcock video editing multimedia application.
• Graphics: Core graphics, Quartz. Core Animation. Core image. Ported PhotoShop Plugins, wrote Adobe Illustrator plugins. Author of KaleidoscoPix.
• Plus: Kernel Extensions (KEXTs).  device drivers, security software, HTML, WebKit.  localization, and more.

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