Michael Patrick Ellard is a consultant currently working in the area of iPhone/iPad development. He is interested in finding consulting projects or full-time employment.
Prior to working with iOS, Mike helped design and build economic modeling software and business information systems for a variety of large companies. He’s good at talking with users, understanding their needs, and then building software and systems to solve their problems.
As an iPhone/iPad developer. Mike has done ten successful submissions to the Apple app store (three new apps, seven upgrades to existing apps). Most of his recent work has been focused on the iPhone, and he has also done a universal iPhone/iPad app.
The software that Mike writes tends to be non-glitzy and rock solid. Mike’s feeling is that the user should never notice the user interface – it should just work.
Mike has a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and masters degrees from the Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has also done graduate work at the Monterey Institute for International Studies. Mike is perpetually fascinated by how humans use language to construct meaning, and he has taken courses in French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Biblical Hebrew, Hellenistic Greek, Latin, and Spanish.
Mike is particularly interested in interface design for people with disabilities. On August 22, 2010, Mike won the Accessibility Award at the iOSDevCamp for his “Accessible Table View” open source library.
Note: Michael Patrick Ellard and Michael Andrew Ellard are two different people, even though they are both software developers living in San Jose.
