Jonathan Koch
jbkoch@mac.com

COUP Mobility GmbH Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
• Lead iOS Developer framework and app development, product leadership, infrastructure
• - lead the architecture of an SDK shared between internal and external COUP iOS apps
• - lead the development of an all-new iOS Rider app (now 4.7 stars on the AppStore)
• - facilitated communication across product, engineering, customer support and design on a highly international team
• - served as technical liaison to contacts at Gogoro in Taipei and other external partners
• - organized release milestones, prioritized features and overhauled build infrastructure

Noa Technologies Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
• Product & Project Management strategy, feature planning, communication
• - synthesized divergent ideas from numerous sources into project milestones
• - facilitated communication between development team in Berlin & early adopting customers in California
• - established best practices of bug reporting, internal adoption, product focus
• - encouraged leadership to adopt an SDK-based strategy to enable a global bike sharing platform
• Design & Development visual design, interaction design, SDK architecture, implementation
• - architected the iOS SDK to support a wide range of third party applications and multiple BTLE devices
• - designed & implemented several iterations of the user-facing Rider application as business needs evolved
• - designed the Crew application for fleet maintainers
• Corporate Identity branding, typography, tone
• - coordinated & managed the rebranding from Lock8 to Noa Technologies
• - defined principles, timeline, goals and messaging for the brand transition
• - encouraged team participation at key steps & decision points

Anamaya Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
• Creative Direction visual design, interaction design, sound design
• - established the visual language of the Anamaya meditation app
• - designed the behaviour and interaction mechanics of a custom UI element to progressively disclose steps of the meditation course
• Development custom controls / drawing / layouts, in-app purchase, etc.
• - architected the application from scratch to be highly performant
• - leveraged several advanced frameworks including the Pop animation framework for iOS
• - implemented numerous custom UI elements & layouts as well as in-app purchase and a custom user account flow
• - established software development practices for Anamaya including source control, bug tracking and the user support system
• Marketing web development, graphic design
• - designed & built the anamaya.co website using Bootstrap and Jekyll
• - created the promotional material used for the App Store, press kit and social media channels

Apple Aug 2005 - Aug 2012
• iOS Split Keyboard feature development, design, implementation
• - conceived, designed, prototyped, and implemented the iPad split keyboard
• - garnered internal support and pitched the feature to iOS managers and executives
• - initiated, designed, and conducted a study to quantify the ergonomic and typing speed benefits
• iOS Text Input feature development, architecture, bug fixing
• - contributed to the design of the dictation user interaction experience for iPad
• - rearchitected the emoji keyboard for iPad (split and regular keyboards)
• Apple Maps implementation
• - contributed to the initial release of the Apple Maps client-side application for iOS
• - implemented the cinematic info card for points of interest, integrated Yelp functionality
• Multitouch Rapid Protoyping concept development, communication, demos
• - designed and implemented novel multitouch user interaction demos for prototype hardware
• - pitched concepts to executives of marketing, industrial design, and hardware teams
• - collaborated with members of human interface design team on early executive demos for iPad
• Mac OS X Application Compatibility source-less debugging, web design
• - triaged binary compatibility issues with 3rd party applications for major Mac OS releases
• - designed and implemented an internal web-based tool to track compatability status

• Apple University2012
• Various classes
• University of Southern California2002
• Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

• iOS Split Keyboard Family
• 8,754,860 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• 8,659,562 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• 8,648,823 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• 8,593,422 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• 8,587,547 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• 8,587,540 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• 8,547,354 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• 8,754,860 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards
• Multitouch Concepts
• 8,832,585 - Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Manipulating Workspace Views
• 8,799,826 - Device, method, and graphical user interface for moving a calendar entry in a calendar application

References available upon request

30 October 2018