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Francisco Baptista

My views only, mostly techie and PM info

ABOUT ME

Sofware Developer and Project Manager

A passionate technology advocate, with a comprehensive understanding of digital delivery live cycle from both a technical and business point of view. I have a proven project management track record delivering digital solutions for clients such as Tesco, News UK, Bauer and Hearst. My previous incarnation was as a software developer, a career I started at the age of 13. My extensive technical knowledge and experience enables me to drive and deliver projects for clients with exceptional build quality and efficiency, streamlining processes and ensuring great user focus. My most recent passion is Agile, for which I am a certified master. As an experienced team leader I am adept at inspiring my team to achieve excellence.  Should they not be inspired, then I fallback on teaching nine-year-old children how to code as volunteer.

EXPERIENCE

Zone

Project Director

Responsible for designing and implementing a new Agile Programme for the agency’s biggest account (Tesco). Advocacy and training whilst implementing has lead to the adoption of an Agile across other agency accounts e.g. Pro-Social

September 2014 – January 2015
September 2011 – September 2014

Clock Ltd

Senior Project Manager

Clock is a digital agency on the forefront of technology, specialising in high traffic loyalty-platforms built in nodeJS. I worked across key projects for Bauer, Hearst, News UK and Stonegate accounts. Responsible for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of key business processes

Clock Ltd

Senior Software Engineer/Scrum Master

Brought in to develop and manage the design of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Permissions & Preferences Centre for Bauer, as well as maintaining other legacy builds.

April 2010 – September 2011
January 2010 - April 2010

Comufy

Lead Developer (Contract)

Lead the design and development of Comufy’s Social Media Marketing Suite and refactoring of the legacy applications. Was responsible for the implementation of additional modules to build up the core codebase.

TESTIMONIAL

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Why Scrum Simply Works

After a few projects using Scrum, it becomes fairly easy to understand why Scrum works so well. Scrum is not the secret ingredient for success but it does certainly help us to achieve better results on our projects. This articles was originally posted on Clock’s blog so follow the link and find out why Scrum […]

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Agile Principles In Practice

This articles was originally posted on Clock’s Blog and it explains how to put to practice some of the Agile/Scrum principles. Read original articles on here: www.clock.co.uk/blog/agile-principles-in-practice

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Implementing and Agile Workflow – Reasoning

This is the second iteration of my Agile Workflow programme series of articles. Evidence shows that iterative and evolutionary development correlates with lower risk, higher productivity and the lowest defect rate. Alternatively, predictive project approaches have been shown to incur increased costs and delays as the projects duration and complexity increase. Therefore the following projects […]

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Implementing An Agile Workflow – Introduction

I’ve written this article as part of and ambitious Agile Programme. This is the first of a series of articles which will underpin the Agile project workflow from inception to delivery and provides a comparision between Agile and other more traditional project management approaches whilst justifying the benefits of using Agile. The document touches briefly on […]

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