Fritz Anderson

A position that makes the best use of my knowledge, training, and experience in object technologies, especially iOS and Mac OS X.

Operating/Development Environments: MacOS (through 10.7) [11yr]; iOS (through iOS 5.0, plus prereleases) [3yr].

Programming Languages: C Family (C [25yr], Objective-C [15yr]). Ruby [5 yr].

Middleware: Rails [3 yr].

Tools: Apple Xcode [10yr, wrote three books]. Git [2yr]. Subversion [4yr].

Technologies: Cocoa [13 yr]; Graphical Human Interface [25+ yr].

Operating Environments: Red Hat Linux (RHEL) [4 yr].

Programming Languages: C++ [10yr], Java [4+yr].

Tools: EMACS [5yr]. Gnu Make/GCC [4yr].

Operating Environments: MS-Windows (through XP), VAX/VMS.

Programming Languages: Perl [2yr]; Python [3yr]. FORTH; FORTRAN II; EMACS LISP/Scheme.

Tools: CVS [2yr]. Gnu Flex+Bison (lex/yacc) [3yr].

The University of Chicago
Information Technology Services
Scholarly Technology
Chicago, Illinois
Senior iOS/Macintosh Developer

iOS and Mac programmer for a large university IT department. Captured requirements for, designed, and implemented iOS and Macintosh applications to support teaching, administration, and research. Designed and implemented web applications for mail-system management, firewall management, and personal-security alerting. Taught a college-level course on iOS development. Supervised student labor.

Projects included rendering and annotation of large styled-text documents on iPad and an integrated system for recording and editing student language exercises on the iPad, including an authoring environment with a real-time validation inspector.

Parallel Software
Naperville, Illinois
Senior Consultant

Senior software engineer and consultant. Applications design and coding for Mac OS X, 9, and 8. Driver programming for Mac OS 8/9; kernel programming for Mac OS X.

Responsible for requirements capture, design, and implementation of applications, components, and system software for clients in manufacturing, OEM and consumer electronics, and publishing.

NewMedia, Inc.
Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio
(working in Indianapolis, Indiana).
Senior software engineer and consultant

Responsible for applications and component design and programming for Mac OS 7 for manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and the military.

Projects included an SGML-based hypertext and full-text-search browser, including images, tables, and media, supplied on 10 CD-ROM disks, for the US Air Force. (1993)

Scientific Software Products / DOME Software, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

Senior software engineer and human-interface specialist on an R&D project to develop a distributed object-oriented database management system (OODBMS) for use in the pharmaceutical industry.

Independent contractor and consultant in microcomputing applications for education and medical instrumentation. Clients included Indiana State School Music Association and Microsonics, Inc.

Projects included digitizer-tablet-based medical-imaging measurement applications for cardiography and obstetrics. These were event loop-driven interactive systems with pointing devices driving a graphical user interface.

Xcode 4 Unleashed, Sams, 2012, 550 pages
Xcode 3 Unleashed, Sams, 2008, 560 pages
Step into Xcode: Mac OS X Development, Addison-Wesley, 2005, 460 pages

Conversational guides to Apple’s Xcode integrated development environment, from beginning to advanced techniques. Widely critically-acclaimed, the first two editions went through 2 printings (10,000 copies each).

Chapter “Codeless Language Modules” for the BBEdit User Manual, Bare Bones Software, 2012.

Magazine articles in Macintosh Products Guide, Mac User, and MacTech magazines (1984-2004) on Mac development environments and network programming.

Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2002, 2007-2012.

Employer training in project management and collaboration.

Graduate of the Second City Conservatory Program, 1999

Amateur radio license WT9T (Amateur Extra), ex-KE9SC.

Hack recognized at First MacHack hack contest, 1987.

Included in acknowledgements of The Dylan Book, 1995.

Served on organizing committee for MacHack in late 1980s and early 1990s. See Doug Houseman, Late Night with MacHack.

Admitted to the bar of Indiana 1980-1983, retired in good standing.

Private pilot, single-engine-land, 1974-76.