The Black Pixel
are a tight-knit team of expert software developers for hire, based in Seattle. Our passion is iPhone OS, and we specialize in rapid turnaround, high-visibility projects requiring multiple developers. Design, stability, and performance are our priorities. Delivering them on a deadline is our specialty.
Eminently flexible, we’re comfortable tackling large projects alone, as part of a larger distributed effort, or embedded on-site alongside client teams. In the first 3 months of this year alone we’ve developed one #1 Paid (and #1 Grossing) iPhone app and a second Top-10 Grossing iPad app. Our work has been featured in Apple ads for print and TV, and in Steve Jobs keynotes.
Our combined might allows us to develop complicated projects in a remarkably short amount of time. Every member of our staff has their personal specialties atop the core skills required for the job. We support each other, we complement each other, and we don’t stop until the job is done.
Bil Moorhead leads the company in knowledge of Objective-C, APIs, and low-level programming. He creates impossible custom user interfaces, gorgeous animations, and is an expert troubleshooter.
Specialties: Cocoa internals, Core Graphics, Core Animation, concurrency, IPC, in-app purchasing
Chris Clark pushes design beyond simple aesthetics and immerses himself in the technologies underpinning his applications. He has final cut privilege on all of our releases.
Specialties: Interface, interaction, and user experience design, usability, HTML5 & CSS, graphics
Daniel Pasco catalyzes the company’s creative and strategic direction. He is a former rocket scientist with software on Mars, and an enthusiastic student of Taoist martial arts.
Specialties: Streaming video and audio, GameKit, Bonjour, OpenGL, Core Audio, Accelerate Framework
Garrett Kelly specializes in application internals and has cultivated a reputation among our clients for industriousness, thoroughness, and reliability. He is relentlessly self-directed and an accomplished autodidact.
Specialties: Network programming, parsing, unit testing, Ruby on Rails
George Dick enjoys high demand as a developer from our most prominent clients. He is our castellan and client ambassador, and governs business operations.
Specialties: Core Animation, Core Data, Core Location, localization, foreign languages
Michael Hay brings app development horsepower to the team, an Apple and Adobe alumnus with a passion for excellence in design normally found in German cars and mechanical watches.
Specialities: Cocoa / UIKit APIs, custom UI controls and behaviors, networking, performance tuning, app design / architecture
Stephan Schier identifies and illuminates compelling client brand opportunities on the iPhone and iPad. He is a creative, gifted advocate for both the client and the team.
Specialties: Client relationship management, propaganda and evangelism