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Joan Aranda

SW Foundations & DevOps strategies lead

Summary Statement

People and Change Management and Continuous Improvement Processes in Computer Science are my job and my passion. Throughout my broad career (39 years, 31 in hp), I have been lucky enough to play very diverse management and technical roles, and lead both local and international cross-functional teams, distributed worldwide.

According to Gallup Strengths Center (www.gallupstrengthscenter.com), my top 5 strengths are: Achiever, Analytical, Connected, Talented in individualization and Arranger.

Work Experience

SW Foundations Department Manager & strategies lead

HP · 2020-Present · 4 years

Manage the SW Foundations Services Department in charge of the DevOps services for the whole range of Large Format Printing SW solutions:

  • Determine vision, mission, roadmap, objectives, roles and responsibilities for the team members, and regular execution follow-up
  • Increase reliability and efficiency through the continuous refinement of processes and tools
  • Definition and refinement of the SW Solutions Product Lifecycle
  • Process owner for the Open Source reviews for the whole SW Solutions portfolio

Keywords: Continuous improvement processes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Nexus, Grafana, Swagger

Big Data Program Manager · Application Architect

HP · 2014-2020 · 6 years

Diverse Big Data responsibilities, ranging from very program oriented to very technical roles:

  • Program Manager in charge of the integration of the Large Format Big Data assets into a cross-divisional Big Data ecosystem
  • Program Manager and Architect of our main Big Data solution (~300 million print jobs)
  • Process Curator: Continuous improvement of our Data Products Lifecycle
  • Data Privacy Focal Point for the Large Format division

Keywords: Data-driven decisions, big data, program management, end to end application architecture, cloud solutions, Amazon Web Services, AWS, S3, SQL, XML, JSON, API, data analytics, data cleansing, data payloads, dashboards, Power BI, Redshift, Aurora

Software Quality Expert · SW Quality / Process Curator

HP · 2008-2014 · 6 years

In charge of multiple and very diverse efficiency/quality improvement programs & processes:

  • Program Manager of a cloud-based solution to assist SW localization
  • Program Manager of DTS tool simplification (DMAIC + training)
  • Curator and trainer for the Requirements/Defect management processes and workflows
  • Leader of the Front Loaded SWQA team, focused on prevention and early detection of defects

Keywords: Strategic problem solving, requirements management, program management, defect prevention, focus on quality, SW/tool/process improvement, six sigma, DMAIC, CMMI

R&D Department People Manager

HP · 2001-2008 · 7 years

  • 2007/2008: Organization/People Manager for the whole R&D Department (37 HP employees + 11 contractors)
  • 2006/2007: Connectivity & Views Team Manager: 15 local engineers + offshore
  • 2001/2006: Program/People Manager: Retail solution with HP Consulting, involving remote development teams in US, France, Brazil and India

Previous Roles

Misc · 1985-2001 · 16 years

  • 1996/2001: Software Development Engineer (5 years · HP)
  • 1993/1996: Software Quality Engineer (3 years · HP)
  • 1991/1993: Software Development Engineer (2 years · Telesincro)
  • 1985/1991: HW & SW Design Engineer (6 years · MAPS Informàtica Industrial)

Key Attributes

Skills identified through Gallup’s StrengthsFinder (currently CliftonStrengths)

www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/home.aspx

  • Achiever: Great deal of stamina. Gets satisfaction from productivity
  • Analytical: Ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation
  • Connectedness: Seek links between all things. Every event has a reason
  • Individualization: Seek how diverse people can work together productively
  • Arranger: Like to figure out how all pieces can be arranged for maximum productivity

Top 15 Featured Skills & Endorsements in LinkedIn

Further details at linkedin.joanaranda.cat

  • Big data analytics (30)
  • Project Management (29)
  • Testing (29)
  • Requirements Mgmt. (25)
  • SW Development (25)
  • System Architecture (24)
  • Team management (24)
  • Process improvement (23)
  • Business intelligence (22)
  • Leadership (22)
  • SQL (22)
  • XML (22)
  • Software Design (19)
  • Software Quality (19)
  • Software Engineering (18)

13 recommendations from senior profiles also available at linkedin.joanaranda.cat

Education

  • Telecom engineering (Computer Science spec.)

    1983-1988 · La Salle Bonanova / Universitat Ramon Llull

Other relevant trainings

  • HP Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (w/o project)

    2013 · MoreStream University

  • Value Requirements engineering

    2009 · Gilb International

  • Introduction to CMMI

    2008 · Carnegie Mellon University / SW Engineering Institute

Publications, Patents & Awards

  • Cloud-based tool for high quality cost-effective localization

    Tech Con (2014) · Authors: Diana Pascual / Marisa Arola / Joan Aranda / Jorge Ordás

  • HP Print Marketplace: give the power, remove the hassle

    LFP Innovation Campaign (2013) · Authors: Ivan Escoda / Joan Aranda

  • Large Format Printer Usage Tracking in the Cloud

    Tech Con (2012) · Authors: Johan Lammens / Joan Aranda / David Turpin

  • Method and system for remote network printing

    Patent US20030112464 · Authors: Eduardo Garcia / JM Asensio / Joan Aranda / JM Aymerich

For further details, please unfold "Publications" in linkedin.joanaranda.cat

Community involvement

Member of the Board / Project Manager at CSC

1998-2022 · 24 years

Volunteer cooperation (unpaid) as Member of the Board, Project Manager and Technical Consultant for multiple Internet projects related with dance and music events. Several levels of involvement, depending on each project:

  • portalsardanista.cat (budgeting, requirements elicitation and program mgmt.)
  • lsda.cat (requirements elicitation, program mgmt. and full implementation)
  • batecs.cat (design and implementation of REST API to embed the agenda of sardana events)
  • exposardanes.cat (technical consultancy and support)
  • obp.cat (technical consultancy and support)

Personal interests

Chess, running, sardana dancing, internet technology, keep learning