Moving Average Inc.

Skills

How can I help you?

John M. P. Knox

Founder

In my experience as an advisor, mentor, investor, and software developer, I've helped many teams release software and hardware products and helped leaders build teams that achieve market results.

Business Leadership

I can help leaders:

  • Tell better stories to investors, customers, and other stakeholders
  • Align teams around your strategy
  • Develop and implement plans to ship your software faster and with higher quality
  • Improve your team dynamics and communication
  • Uncover how your teams work today, where the friction lies, and where to make adjustments
  • Design strategies for aligning software, firmware, and hardware teams to get products to market rapidly
  • Employ creativity to overcome obstacles
  • Manage SaaS Metrics
  • Perform App Store Optimization
  • Design internal and external app deployment strategies

Investing

I can help startups or investors:

  • Apply AI in business
  • Hire lead or senior engineers
  • Lead development teams
  • Design hardware integrations
  • Develop planning methodologies
  • Evaluate Pitch decks
  • Perform iOS App Due Diligence (e.g., acquisitions, mergers)
  • Perform iOS Development Team Due Diligence (e.g., talent acquisitions, acqui-hires)
  • By investing in your early-stage startup

Relevant Keywords

I included the keywords below for the benefit of my fellow engineers, HR professionals, PMs, and so on, looking for specific technical knowledge. I don't claim expertise in all of them; I am always exploring new tools to enhance results.

Business

  • MedTech
  • Cybersecurity
  • B2B SaaS
  • Jobs to be Done (JTBD)
  • UI/UX
  • Planning
  • Delegation
  • Hiring
  • Performance management

AI

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Codex

iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS Development

  • Apple Business Manager
  • JAMF (MDM)
  • App Store Connect
  • iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS
  • SwiftUI
  • Objective-C
  • Swift
  • Xcode
  • React Native
  • Core Bluetooth: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
  • Core NFC
  • UIKit: UICollectionView, UITableView, UIStackView, etc.
  • Auto Layout
  • XCTestCase, XCUITestCase, EarlGrey
  • Fastlane tools
  • Protocol-Driven Development
  • ARC
  • GCD
  • NSURLSession
  • Realm DB
  • Firebase: Remote configuration, App Distribution, Crashlytics
  • iOS Enterprise Distribution
  • Provisioning: sigh, match
  • Instruments
  • Nordic Semiconductor iOSDFULibrary
  • ReSwift

Web Development

  • Google App Engine
  • Bootstrap, TailwindCSS
  • JSON
  • HTML, Javascript, CSS

General Programming

  • Perl, Python, Ruby, C, C++, Java
  • Object-Oriented design
  • HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS
  • YAML, Pandoc, Mustache

Agile, Quality, DevOps

  • Standup meetings
  • Sprint planning
  • Kanban, storyboards
  • Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello
  • Peer code review, pull requests
  • Unit and UI Testing
  • Specification writing
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • Static analysis

Microprocessor Diagnostics, System-level Tests, and Electrical Validation

  • Linux kernel extensions and modifications
  • Shmoo plots
  • Latch divergence
  • Design-for-test
  • JTAG, boundary scan
  • System-Level Test

Other Skills

  • ChatGTP, ChatSpot
  • SEO
  • Technical writing
  • Writing
  • Presenting
  • Investing: index fund, VC, and private SaaS companies
  • Remote work, offshore teams
  • Team leadership
  • Google Analytics
  • Facebook advertising

Want to Talk?

Schedule a fixed-fee micro-consultation with John.