Emilio Costa Giomi Email & Phone Number

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

I managed projects of different sizes, from 3 to 12 team members including business analysts, architects, developers, QA, designers and tech writers. Worked on several projects at the same time.Tasks:Project scope definition and budget and delivery date estimations:User story validation; Feature prioritization;Release planning process (Coordination of stories estimation, Definition of iteration length, Initial velocity estimation, Risk analysis); Estimation of delivery dates based on optimistic/pessimistic scenarios; Estimation of Budget based on resources and delivery dates; Negotiation with the product owner about cost-scope-delivery date.Projects Kick off: Elaboration of documents to the executive review board; Development plan; Budget and resources allocation; Risks, assumptions and actions to mitigate; Project presentation.Team Building: Evaluation of candidates to be hired; Evaluation and staffing of company resources to the projects based on skills, projects needs and candidates careers.Project tracking and follow up:Iteration planning coordination (User Stories analysis and selection, User Stories tasks break down); Standups coordination(Early detection of road blocks, Evaluation and care of team communication); Coordination of iteration demos to stake holders; Coordination of Iteration evaluation meetings; Communication of project progress(Periodic calls and meetings with the product owner, Elaboration of status reports for the stake holders); Checking of engineering practices (TDD, coverage, code reviews, peer programming, continuous integration, etc); Bugs and issues trackingRoll out:Coordination and elaboration of documents for release management board; Release process follow-up.Performance evaluation of team members.

Worked on @Tiempo project for Colombia Telecom.Tasks:Application technical knowledge update on “Telefónica Chile”.Definition of the technical and behavioral gap between the Chilean product and the requirements. Design and implementation of the integration bus: queues, channels and MQ-Broker flows definitions and design.

Participated on GPyM project for “Telefónica Argentina”Tasks:Object oriented design of the functional specifications and the “core business logic” use cases.Developers coordination for the implementation of some modules.Refactor of the entity relationship logical model towards an object oriented model.Training to the business analysts on object oriented principles.The implementation was done on Java/J2EE with EJBs and JMS using WebSphere app server and MQ series and MQ workflow as the integration layer.

Terramed S.R.L. is a health care software company that provide and Electronic Medical Record product: Praxis. (www.infor-med.com)I was hired to: .- Coordinate and lead Xtreme Programming adoption. .- Be part of the development team.Tasks:Xtreme Programming adoption: Lead the coding standard initiative; Creation of the testing team; Lead the TDD, test first initiative; Lead the continuous integration initiative; Lead Unit Test initiative; Lead the refactor process towards a more organized and clean code; Lead the adoption of small iterations process; Lead the adoption of stand ups.Developer:Redesign of the product User Interface; Development, change and fix multiple components of the core logic layer; Development of the logical layer of ScanAway, an scanning and image indexing and retrieving module.

CABAL is a credit card company that offers a variety of payment products for Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil and Paraguay.Tasks:Design and implementation of a components architecture that allows: Unify components triggering; Unify security and component access by users and processes; Component configuration and behavior based on roles and profiles; Unify user access and role-profiles configuration; Establish clear development layers and data access; Unify components version control; Technology: COM, ADO, XML.Fraud prevention and analysis module: Design and implementation of components:Task assignment and tracking tool: Requirements analysis. Prototype development. Design and development of components.DataWarehouse: development of components to data validation and update. Development of new cubes, data model, and update process.Development of components to control the process of credit card printing.