I am a software engineer living in Ventura, California. I’ve been married over 26 years and we have three adult kids. They are amazing!
Recently I’ve focused on iOS development, but my history includes 8 years of professional 3d graphics coding across multiple platforms and 19 years of team management, leadership development, and coaching non-profits for refocusing and organizational turnarounds. I am currently in the job market looking for a position that can leverage my history with complex code bases and team leadership and management.
Current Projects
My recent project is Drink to Health, which is an iOS application that makes it easy to track what you drink, by using gestures to quickly enter beverages do you can see if you hit your water targets, while also limiting caffeine, sugar and alcohol. I wrote it to try some user interface ideas with radial menus. It is written in SwiftUI and it currently in TestFlight for public beta testing.
Past Work
My first actual paying job was writing dBaseIII+ code in 10th grade. My dad needed some donation tracking software that could satisfy IRS guidelines for non-profits, generate donation letters and deposit slips. He bought a Compaq 386/16 and since I was writing BASIC programs on my Amiga 1000, he figured I could do it!
After graduating with a B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1993, I worked at SimGraphics Engineering in South Pasadena on graphics pipeline development for the Panasonic 3DO. Later I contributed to the VActor performance animation system where we used proprietary software on Silicon Graphics computers for facial and full-body real-time motion capture using mechanical waldos, gloves, magnetic and optical systems.
In 1996 I moved to Santa Barbara as part of the Maya development team at Alias | Wavefront. I developed virtual device support for playing back recorded mocap data into Maya, worked on file referencing and the file format, non-linear animation systems, the Maya API and eventually custom engineering for high-profile customers.
In late 2002 I changed careers to focus on churches and non-profits in the Southern California area through the Foursquare Church. Over the next 19 years, I worked with churches to be a benefit in their community by creating safe spaces for youth, by helping with legal, financial and property challenges in setting up non-profit community support programs and food assistance programs. My organization work over those 19 years included directly leading 12 different organizations going through significant changes and led them through the transition process into good outcomes. Ultimately, I ended up being the assistant supervisor overseeing 150 different organizations.
My work with churches and non-profits wrapped up in the end of 2021 and I am now focused on Apple development. My interest in real-time 3d graphics continues and I look forward to posting AR projects on this site.
About This Site
This site is meant to be a place where I can share ideas and projects. If something I am working on seems interesting, I would love to hear about it! Email or a Twitter DM are the best ways to reach me.
Thanks for reading,
Chon Torres