Franco

Develops and maintains a multi-branded clothing store iOS application under the SCRUM methodology. Responsible for working with GitHub to create and maintain branches, pull requests, and repository structure by following the company standards, improving operations by conducting systems analysis; recommends changes in procedures and architectural decisions, participates in peer code reviews to ensure the quality of the company requires and estimating and helping prioritize tasks along with the development team.

• Identify, prioritize, and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Performs validation and verification testing
• Develops high-quality software design and architecture
• Creates new tasks on Jira

Technologies:  Agile, Scrum, GitHub, iOS, Jira, Objective-C, Swift

Led 3 development teams along SCRUM methodology. Worked closely with Relationship Managers, Business Analysts, Project Managers. Responsible for the delivery of the development, project leadership, quality, and timely delivery of the projects.

• Gathered estimates from the development team for projects and features, challenging the team appropriately to ensure that estimates are realistic
• Addressed internal and external technical risks, issues and dependencies
• Represented development in external status meetings, communicating technical approach and challenges on behalf of entire development team
• Drove collaboration across internal platform development teams, ensuring that features and implementations for each platform remain in sync
• Supported application deployments; worked closely with developers and quality assurance to ensure successful software releases, and enforced proper procedures to be followed
• Made sure that the company’s technical standards and best practices are being followed
• Suggested improvements to delivery processes based on new technologies, tools and methodologies

Maintained an iOS application until he was chosen to lead and manage a project under the SCRUM methodology. Led the whole streaming platform brands for both iOS and tvOS.

• Managed the releases and automation builds each sprint (2 weeks)
• Led peer code reviews, ensuring that the development team understands the process and can replicate it in case someone else is not available
• Managed the project scope and velocity metrics
• Policed the repository structure, so there’s no bad management of branches
• Synced with other development teams and stakeholders for new functionalities and project reviews.
• Estimated, prioritized, and delegated tasks along with the development team
• Ensured teams’ continuous improvement in adherence to defined organizational goals
• Communicated to the tech manager/delivery manager about the progress as well as blockages in the ongoing sprints
• Developed plans to ensure delivery of teams’ work

Developed and maintained TaxAct Express application in a 2-week release sprint cadence under SCRUM methodology, allowing to easily make the tax returns. This application used a native and a web flow, and communication between them was key. Also used OCR technology for document reading and applied the latest features iOS offers.

• Created the repository structure from scratch and helped define a solid branching strategy
• Participated in peer code reviews and verified that followed the standard created by the team at the time of project definition
• Estimated and helped prioritize tasks along with the development team
• Development of the whole application from scratch, including features like image recognition, image optimization, OCR, etc
• Designed the architecture of the project and give the technical feedback

Developed multiple iOS applications (Objective-C and Swift) and led a development team, assigning them to projects, estimating deadlines and prioritizing tasks. He successfully delivered applications such as Taxi services for small businesses and communication based apps with Bluetooth beacons.

• Hosted and led SCRUM ceremonies
• Helped define project strategies
• Created and maintained repository structure
• Taught how to manage and handle a repository to new developers, helping them understand the importance of being organized
• (Taxi App) Development of the whole skeleton application from scratch. This app required expertise with MapKit
• Taught iOS development to new developers

• Freelance iOS Developer (2012-2013)
• Software Engineer at Sidequest (2012-2013)
• Software Engineer at BITSS Global (2012)