J.C. Francis III

Professional Profile

Lead Software Engineer with over a decade of experience enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Backed by strong hands-on expertise in full-stack development (React/AWS/Go/Node) and modern AI integrations, I specialize in driving product design, providing technical guidance to agile teams, and serving as a subject matter expert across the SDLC. I apply deep technical expertise and independent problem-solving to tackle a diverse array of challenges, while adding to a team culture of diversity, inclusion, and respect.

Core Competencies & Skills

Professional Experience

Citigroup
VP - Engineering Lead Manager & Analyst
July '23 – Current
Citigroup converted to full-time
AVP - Apps Dev Sr. Programmer Analyst
June '20 – July '23
Citigroup contracted through NTT Data
Senior UI Developer
December '19 – June '20

Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert, providing technical guidance and direction to support the business, technical teams, contractors, and vendors across critical enterprise automation infrastructure.

Deliver high-impact technical presentations to enterprise audiences of up to 9,000 stakeholders, influencing peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.

Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations, incorporating AI agent workflows directly into project planning and full-lifecycle full-stack development.

Develop secure and high-quality production code for conversational AI paths and data retrieval models, actively reviewing and debugging code written by others to ensure stability.

Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices, independently tackling complex design and functionality problems.

Architected highly technical front-end components using core React philosophies and AWS cloud native principles to support an Infrastructure App utilized by 17k community development users.

Engineered an automated OS patching interface supporting 5k monthly active users, managing 100k automated patching workflows and over 1.2M secure server executions annually.

Accelerated team onboarding time and productivity by authoring comprehensive documentation, standardizing code structures, and fostering a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Supervised high-scale database patching schedules to mitigate enterprise risk, coordinating 21k non-production updates while sustaining a 99% on-time patching completion rate.

thyssenkrupp
Front-end Developer
March '19 – December '19

Collaborated with a cross-functional Agile team to engineer the scalable Cab Designer application, directly influencing software capabilities based on client needs.

Led the technical implementation of a comprehensive UI redesign, resolving complex rendering issues to deliver a highly refined user experience.

Advised executive management on scalable architecture design and performance optimizations.

Architected and documented robust SCSS standards merging BEM and OOCSS methodologies to streamline future development.

New Legend Media
Front-end Developer
March '18 – March '19

Engineered custom programmatic solutions for high-traffic client sites including Wayaround.com and BontonFarms.org.

Managed technical releases and Android builds in the Google Play Console for the WayAround Cordova application, acting as the primary debugger for front-end issues and client integration.

AdvoCare International
UX Developer
August '13 – March '18

Led front-end development using modern JS frameworks and advanced lifecycles to rebuild corporate mobile properties, resulting in a 110% measurable increase in mobile lead generation.

Developed dynamic, data-driven applications utilizing Vue.js, Firebase, and complex APIs to support national product launches and global distributor networks.

Analyzed user flow and session data via Google Analytics, explicitly tailoring findings into actionable executive presentations for the VP of Sales and VP of Marketing.

Designed and built a programmatic drag-and-drop presentation tool utilized by internal sales teams and external distributors to curate custom multimedia assets.

Education & Professional Development

University of North Texas
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Citigroup Professional Development
People Leadership Program

Citigroup Professional Development
Centre Stage Presentation Program

Red Hat Certified
Openshift Administration - Managing Containers & Kubernetes (DO180)

ICAgile Certified Professional
Foundations of DevOps (ICP-FDO)

Scrum Alliance
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)

CompTIA
A+ Certified

Team Oriented Work

Empowering my team with the ability to present their work dynamically while aligning technical parameters with core business logic.

Collaborating closely with database administrators, project managers, and operations infrastructure engineers to secure enterprise controls before code hits production.