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Brian Coleman
iOS/tvOS Developer
Over 20 years of multifaceted experience including development, design, business analysis and project management working directly with clients in a consulting capacity throughout the full software development life cycle.App Store Accomplishments
Apple TV App of the Year of 2016 - Canada (Sportsnet)
Apple TV App Store Best of 2016 - Canada (City Video)
App Store Best of 2015 for Apple Watch (Sportsnet)
Sportsnet Apple TV App (Featured by Apple on Apple TV 's Launch Day)
App Store Best of 2013 for Fitness Revolution (Chatelaine 10-Minute Fitness)
Classix (Continuously featured by Apple on tvOS & iOS App Stores in Canada & US)
#1 Apple TV App in Canada (City Video)
#1 Apple TV Sports App in Canada (Sportsnet)
#1 Card Game in 12 Countries (Connect Poker)
#1 Sports App in Canada (Sportsnet)
#1 Health & Fitness App in 86 Countries (Chatelaine 10-Minute Fitness)
#1 Music App in Canada (Rogers Radio)
#1 News App in Canada (Maclean's iPhone)
#1 Newsstand App in Canada (Hello Canada iPhone)
#1 News & Politics App in Canada (Canadian Business iPhone)
#1 Food & Drink App in Canada (Chatelaine Recipe Box)
#1 Food & Drink App in Canada (Walmart Live Better Magazine)
#2 Apple TV App in Canada (Pik TV)
#2 News App in Canada (680 News)
#3 Free Apple TV App in Canada (FXNow Canada)
#4 Free App in Canada (Sportsnet)
#4 Food & Drink App in Canada (Today's Parent Mealtime)
#6 Free App in Canada (Rogers Radio)
#6 Entertainment App in Canada (City Video)
#7 Book App in the US (Zoobert’s Big Day)
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified
GE Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
• 10 years of hands-on experience building native iOS & tvOS applications
• Attended WWDC 2015, 2017, 2019
• Worked for best-in-class companies such as Yahoo! Canada, General Electric, Ogilvy & Mather, Rogers Communications, American Express, Tim Hortons, Winners, Canadian Tire, NBC, Coca-Cola and Walt Disney Pictures
Specialties: iOS application development. Fluent in Objective-C, Swift, PHP, MySQL, Perl, HTML, CSS, JSON. Great UI and architectural design skills. Performance testing and profiling. Unit testing, Agile and Scrum.
More About Brian
Developer & Consultant
Hi I’m Brian. I’ve been developing apps for iPhones and iPads since Apple first created the App Store and opened the iOS platform to 3rd party developers in 2008. I'm a Lead iOS Developer from Toronto with over 20 years of multifaceted experience including development, design, business analysis and project management.I’m also an Entrepreneurial App Developer & Consultant. My client work is exciting and diverse. As well as being a very experienced coder I’ve also attained a wealth of knowledge of consumer and enterprise app distribution and am regularly commissioned to consult and help clients make the most of the incredible Apple technologies that have become such a core part of our culture over the last 10 years.
I’m excellent at communicating with clients, developers and designers (those with and without technical knowledge). I listen and pride myself on a strong attention to detail. These qualities have helped me to win trust and work for best-in-class companies such as Yahoo! Canada, General Electric, Ogilvy & Mather and Rogers Communications.
Entrepreneur & Indie Developer
Alongside work-for-hire I also love developing my own indie apps and games. My first taste of App Store success was a game I developed called Connect Poker that notched up half a million downloads and was ranked #1 Card Game in over 12 countries. Since then I’ve launched a series of photography apps like Travel Bomb, another game named "Cheapo Casino" and most recent "Classix" that has been constantly featured by Apple in the U.S. and Canada for over two years on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad.I’m a native iOS Developer – I code iOS Apps using Xcode, Swift & Objective-C. I’m also adept at coding a range of complimentary server-side technologies such as Perl, PHP, and MySQL.
I’ve worked on a great variety of projects from freemium and paid apps through to enterprise apps for businesses. If you have an interesting project I’d like to hear from you. Get in touch and we’ll arrange a coffee over Google Hangouts or Skype!