D. THEODORE FOX
teddfox@me.com
MACINTOSH/IPHONE/IPAD ARCHITECT PROFILE
Passionate, dedicated, and hard-working iPad/iPhone architect with proven experience in, strategic software development, deployment; software quality assurance management; software architecture implementation/maintenance; System administration; Web development/implementation/maintenance. Technology community activist; Highly motivated, self-starter with strong organizational skills with a focus on innovative solutions and disruptive technologies.
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS COMPETENCIES
iPhone / iPad / Macintosh Architect and Application Design
Strategic Thinking & Planning
Communication & Problem Solving
Time and Task Management
Organization Development & Leadership
Customer & Vendor Management
Creative Thinking and Invention
POSITIONS, PROJECTS & SUCCESSES
CITRIX SYSTEMS, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2004- Present
Global leader in Application Delivery and Virtualization Infrastructure. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500.
Technology Evangelist / iPhone-iPad Architect /Developer
As a Technology Evangelist, I am responsible for Citrix XenDesktop Developer Network(Citrix Communities), BYOC(Bring Your Own Computer to Work), and all Apple (iPhone, iPad, Macintosh) related blogging. As an “non-official” iPhone / iPad Software Architect, I work in conjunction with a co-worker to define the feature set, user interface, and readiness for all iPhone/iPad releases. The iPhone release has over 400,000 downloads and has generated over millions in license revenue. We have just finished out iPad version 1.0 and we expect the same reception as the iPhone releases.
Citrix Receiver for iPhone Online Help System (version 2.0, Future releases)
Readiness coordinator (version 2.0, Future releases)
User Experience Concept (with team - Version 1.3, 2.0, future releases)
Feature Design/Concept (with team- Version 1.3, 2.0, future releases)
Community website design (with team)
Citrix Receiver for iPad
Online Help System
Readiness coordinator
UI concepts and layouts
Feature Design/Concept
Community website design (with team)
Featured on 9 to 5 Mac and MANY other Mac related websites
BYOC (Bring You Own Computer to Work)
Steering committee of the BYOC concept (to include all C-level and all SVP’s).
Developed internal documentation Developed internal BYOC site concepts and designs
Decision maker on program specifics Public interview subject for Financial Times (UK), Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Gartner, and others
Citrix Community
BYOC
Active blogger Source for article content and interviews
Wall Street Journal VisionApp Financial Times UK CNet
InfoWorld Washington Post CIO Magazine
Advocate
XenDesktop CDN
Forum support
Article generation and source information
Citrix Receiver for Android
User Experience Concept (with team - version .9, 1.0, future releases)
Readiness Coordinator (Future release)
Online Help System(Future release)
Community website design
Citrix C3 Cloud Lab Developed certain Amazon AMI’s and Documentation related to Citrix Solutions Community website design(with team)
Citrix Online Plugin for Macintosh User Experience Concept(with team)
Citrix Access Gateway Client User Experience Concept(with team)
Corporate integration of iPhone Documentation
IT support training Internal Support Distribution Testing coordinator
Lab for Solutions and Marketing Maintains lab for Solutions and Community group
Product Invention/Innovation Constantly working with Gus Pinto to innovate existing applications or inventing new ones
PatentsApplicant Currently applied for one patent (awaiting pending status)
Executive Support (Execucare) Invented specialized IT support for all executives globally Scheduled on-call program for 24/7 support personalized support to meet all executive special IT needs
World-Wide Macintosh Support Infrastructure Lobbied to implement support for Macintosh OS Authored all support documents Designed and implemented support structure concepts and mechanisms Determined Standards for all Macintosh Computers in Citrix Initiated and developed Enterprise relationship with Apple, Inc. Initiated training for entire world-wide IT organization Conducted multiple training for APAC, EMEA, and USA via GoToWebinar for one year. Macintosh Lab Architecture Project Manager
Merger & Acquisitions Integration Integrated six major acquisitions in 18 months for Citrix IT (500+ users)
Macintosh “Go To Guy” for Macintosh related blogs
Aggregate work experience
Manager of Software Quality Assurance (EqualFooting.com/Equidity 1999-2001)
Senior Valuation Specialist (Forge Advisors 2001-2004)
TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND
Programming: Intermediate Objective-C; Cocoa Frameworks; HTML; Javascript; C; C++
System & Network Administration:Windows (Desktop and Server);Active Directory; Exchange Administration, Macintosh OS (expert); Solaris; Linux
PROFESSIONAL GROUPS
CocoaHeads - Fort Lauderdale(Founder)
A group of passionate Cocoa / Objective-C developers from the Miami/Fort Lauderdale / Boca
area.
Monthly Meetings
20+ active members
Citrix Macintosh Users - (founder)
Grew group from 3 to over 500 users that regularly interact and share
Citrix User Group Fort Lauderdale (Founder)
Quarterly meetings
Sponsor coordinator
15+ active members
iPhoneDevCamp-(Founder for Florida) Florida coordinator
BarCamp - Tampa Bay (Organizer Staff)
Macintosh Developer Network (Member)
Apple Developer Connection (Member)
