William Garrison

Current

• Cocoa Developer at Barton Springs Software
• Principal at Standard Orbit Software

Past

• Senior Programmer/Analyst at Cornell University

Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recommended

1 person has recommended William

Connections

7 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• My Blog

William Garrison’s Summary

I enjoy writing software for the Mac.

Over ten years experience developing with Apple Cocoa frameworks. Professional software developer since 1991. Four years experience managing a micro ISV business.

Successful as a telecommuter, independent contractor, and employee.

William Garrison’s Specialties:

Cocoa, Xcode, Objective-C, C, Java, unit test-driven development, web services, personal finance management, client-server architectures, Carbon-to-Cocoa porting.

William Garrison’s Experience

• Cocoa Developer

  Barton Springs Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Developing desktop and mobile software for Apple Macintosh and iPhone.

• Principal

  Standard Orbit Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)

  Independent Macintosh software development.

• Senior Programmer/Analyst

  Cornell University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  July 1990 — May 2001 (10 years 11 months)

  Developed Internet and web services.
  Consultant on Apple Macintosh technologies.

William Garrison’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  MS, BS , Psychology , 1983 — 1990

  Studied human-computer interaction with a concentration in software engineering.
  
  Cut my teeth on DEC VAX/VMS computers working at the Materials Research Lab. Once took a math course, numerical analysis, just to learn Fortran. Really enjoyed my intro assembly language course. As a grad student, taught introductory psychology and assisted with research on flight training simulator design. Also learned how to swim, fence, ballroom dance, and converse in French.

Additional Information

William Garrison’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• My Blog

William Garrison’s Groups:

•    CocoaHeads
•    Cocoa and Cocoa Touch Developers
•    WWDC 2009

William Garrison’s Contact Settings

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