Joseph Finney
Mobile Product Owner at JoeFinApps
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Finney is a Mobile Product Owner and founder based in Milwaukee with eight years of experience building native Windows apps and leading product teams. He runs JoeFinApps, where since 2016 he created Ink Calendar, a pen-first UWP calendar, and Text Grab, an open-source WPF OCR tool that he continues to enhance as a full-stack developer. In industry roles he has combined hands-on engineering (Senior Engineer at Generac) and product leadership (BlinkTech, Regal Rexnord) to ship mobile and embedded-focused solutions. A Microsoft WinDev MVP, he brings uncommon depth in Windows UX patterns—pen input, draggable windows, clipboard integration—and practical OCR and table-analysis expertise. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Ohio University, he applies systems thinking that bridges hardware-aware engineering with software product strategy.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University
Github Skills (9)
ocr10
wpf10
user-interface10
ocra10
csharp10
userinterface10
image-processing10
dotnet-core10
text-extraction9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 12 reviews, 948 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily worked on implementing and improving the functionality of the Text Grab application, focusing on the user interface and the integration of OCR capabilities. They were involved in building the UI, making the window draggable, and adding key features like text extraction from images and clipboard integration. The user also implemented the table analysis feature.
window-10background-processwindowsgrabocr
TheJoeFin/MagickCrop
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Using ImageMagick to via to correct perspective distortion in images.
Contributions:5 releases, 4 PRs, 38 pushes in 11 months
dotnetimage-processingimagemagickwindowswpf
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