A developer who also runs the project.
I’m Jeanese, a solo iOS developer in Long Beach, California. I build SwiftUI apps and help other people get theirs to the App Store.
Thirty years of building, and of keeping projects on track.
I’ve written software for thirty years and spent about as long in project management offices, across private companies, public agencies and federal IT contracting.
That is why my apps ship on plan. I scope tightly, plan in sprints and review at every gate, because I’ve seen what happens to projects that don’t.
Today I build native apps in SwiftUI and Xcode. Loam, Meal Curate, Evening In and Lading are live on the App Store.
How I got here
I started in IT, moved into business analysis and architecture, then into running delivery. Some of what I did along the way:
- 2000 to 2010
- IT administrator, then IT manager. Ran IT for a company of 700 people across 19 locations, then for 500+ people across 20. Wrote the IT policies, automated processes for 25 to 45 percent productivity gains, and built my first custom business apps. Taught Microsoft Office and SharePoint at a university on the side.
- 2010 to 2014
- Business consultant and senior business analyst. Delivered SharePoint projects for healthcare, higher education, government and private clients. Standardized requirements documents that a whole organization adopted, and built forms automation that saved 240 employee-hours a month.
- 2014 to 2018
- Manager and solution architect. Set up a PMO governance framework that cut budgeted project costs by 15 percent in its first year. Architected 26+ document automation and transactional systems connected to CRM and ERP platforms, and led 15+ on-shore and off-shore developers using Agile and Scrum.
- 2018 to now
- Professional services leadership. I lead a regional practice with full responsibility for revenue, margin and on-time delivery, and I coach project managers for a living. The solo app work happens alongside it.
I also started out as a teacher, which is why I explain things in plain language and build processes backward from the outcome.
How I work, in three habits
- Make the shortcut visible
- I run every app through nine gates. I can skip a gate, but I have to type the reason, and it stays on the record. Process should make the shortcut visible, not impossible.
- Ask before building
- Who is this for, specifically? What happens if I build nothing? What must this never become? Most projects that go sideways skipped the questions, not the meetings.
- Subtract on purpose
- Loam, Meal Curate and Evening In ask for no account, no cloud and no email. That cost me some growth tools, and I would make the same trade again.
I work with custom AI agents I built for my own workflow. They draft and check, and I make every decision and review everything that ships.
Beyond the apps
I design printed notebooks for the people I worked beside for decades: Status: Green, a journal for IT project managers, and a meeting notebook for business analysts. Both are on Amazon. I write about building apps and running projects on LinkedIn, including what does not work.
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