Fran Simó

Born in 1973 in Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba, Argentina.

Residence: Palma, Baleares, Spain.

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Education

Formal - Engineering

Non-Formal - Massage and Art

Retreats

Group Exhibitions

Books

Some of my works have been included in the following books:

• A tiro de piedra: acercar lo posible, Genèric, 978-8417048372
• Barcelona. The Forbidden Photos., La Fábrica, 978-8417048372
• Barcelona, La Fábrica, ISBN 978-8415691679.
• Central Park NYC: An Architectural View, Universe Books, ISBN 978-0847840793.

My self-published books are listed here.

Prizes

Press

Residencies

Workshops, lectures, debates

• TECNOLOGIA I SUPORTS at Jornadas de Fotografía Documental 2013
• Online marketing for photographers for Barcelona Photobloggers, Barcelona, 2009.
• Lab: Introduction to black and white laboratory techniques for Barcelona Photobloggers, Barcelona, 2009.
• Debate: “Roundtable Webs” for 10º Fórum Fotográfico Can Basté, 2008
• Photography principles for CampusMac 2008, Barcelona, 2008.
• Photography principles for CampusMac 2007, Barcelona, 2007.

Cultural management experience

From 2006 to 2014, my main artistic activity involved creating, organizing, curating, and promoting participatory and collaborative projects for Barcelona Photobloggers, an on-line social network of amateur and professional photographers of Barcelona Area.

• Transmedia project “Traces – 2013.12.07 – Barcelona”. App, books, video and exhibit: Tagomago Gallery. Within DocField>14 Barcelona. 2014
• Exhibit: “La imagen de la semana II” Centre Civic Pati Llimona, Barcelona, 2014.
• Mobile, real-time exhibit in Barcelona: fotometro.org, an initiative inviting participants to share their views on the crisis. It was shown simultaneously at 28 venues within the Circuit 2013, Documental Photography in Barcelona. 131 authors and 870 photos. 2013
• Book: Passengers 2012, 2013
• Real time, world wide exhibit: Ubiquography “capture, edit, publish, exhibit” in 35 centers in 7 countries with 640 authors and 54.552 pictures, 2012
• Book: Passengers iPhoneography serving Street Photography, 2011
• Exhibit: “Photoblogging” Meremagnum, 39 photographers, 65 pictures, Barcelona, 2011.
• Collaborative transmedia project, exhibit, book and video( es, en): “Arrinconado” Maremagnum, Barcelona, 2010
• Exhibit: “Tan cerca, tan lejos” Centre Cultural Calisay, Arenys de Mar, and Centre Civic Pati Llimona, Barcelona, 21 photographers, 40 pictures, 2010.
• Exhibit: “ Al Detall” Maremagnum, Barcelona, 22 photographers, 72 pictures, 2009.
• Exhibit: “ elements” Maremagnum, Barcelona, 279 photographers, 1584 pictures, 2008.
• Exhibit: “10è Fòrum Fotogràfic Can Basté”, Centre Civic Can Baste, Barcelona, 2008.
• Exhibit: “Les Barcelones de Barcelona” a Sala Ciutat, 41 photographers, 52 pictures, 2008.
• Meetup: European Photobloggers Meet up 2008.
• Exhibit: Second collective exhibition Barcelona Photobloggers “De la red a la pared II”, 34 photoblogs. Fotonauta Gallery , 2008
• Exhibit: voltants.com at Festival BAC!, 400 photographers, 1200 pictures. Fotonauta Gallery, 2007.
• Exhibit: voltants.com at Sonimagfoto 2007 (biggest Spanish photography industry fair)
• Exhibit: First Spanish Photobloggers collective exhibition, “De la red a la pared” , 22 photoblogs, 320 pictures. Fotonauta Gallery, 2006.

Independent curator

• Jury Member: Premio Revela 2014
• Portfolio Reviewer at VISIONAT DE PORTFOLIS, PICS 2013
• Exhibit: In Motion by Marcelo Aurelio, Centre Civic Pati Llimona and Centre Civic Can Baste, Barcelona, 2012.

Collaborations

• As co-founder of Caja Azul I’ve collaborated with all its debates.

  • 2014 – Caja Azul 14va. edición: La influencia de National Geographic en la fotografía a color. Tino Soriano, José Manuel Navia y Rafa Badia. La Fábrica. Madrid.
  • 2014 – Caja Azul 13ra. edición: La influencia de National Geographic en la fotografía a color. Tino Soriano y Rafa Badia. – Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2013- Fotómetro – Termómetro fotográfico que refleja la visión del ciudadano sobre la actualidad. – Concepto, diseño y comisariado. junto a Fran Simó, Godo Chillida, Silvia Omedes, David Lladó. – Circuit2013 Fotografía Documental Barcelona.
  • 2013 – Caja Azul 12va. edición: La fotografía como herramienta de intervención social. – Centre Civic Can Basté. Antonio Amendola y Samuel Aranda. Barcelona.
  • 2013 – Caja Azul 11ma. edición: La fotografía como objeto artístico. Fernando Peracho y Vicenç Boned. – Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2013 – Caja Azul 10ma. edición: Ritmos analógicos en tiempos digitales: Enric de Santos y Siqui Sánchez. – Biblioteca de can Manyer. Vilassar de Dalt. Barcelona.
  • 2013 – Caja Azul 9na. edición: Fotografiando la arquitectura del ser humano. Scott Conarroe, Claude Nori y Tuca Vieira. Vila-real, Valencia.
  • 2012 – Caja Azul 8va. edición: Fotoreporteras – Ofelia de Pablo y Consuelo Bautista – Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2012 – Caja Azul 7ta. edición: Fotografía de viajes. Tina Bagué, Toru Morimoto y Rafa Pérez. – Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2012 – Caja Azul 6ta. edición: Street photography. Txema Salvans y Marcelo Caballero. – Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2011 – Caja Azul 5ta. edición: La edición gráfica. Pepe Baeza y David Airob. – Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2011 – Fotoblogueando. La imagen de la semana de Barcelona Photobloggers. Maremagnum. Barcelona.
  • 2011 – Enfocat al Gótico. Barcelona Photobloggers. Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2011 – Caja Azul 4ta. edición: La obsesión fotográfica. Silvia Omedes, Rafa Badia y Fran Simó. – Fiesta de la filosofia. Centre Civic Can Basté – Barcelona.
  • 2010 – Caja Azul 3ta. edición: Fotoperiodistas en zonas de conflicto: situaciones y límites. Alfonso Moral y Alberto Arce. – 11è Fòrum Fotogràfic Can Basté. Barcelona.
  • 2010 – “Arrinconado” – Proyecto de arte colaborativo de Barcelona Photobloggers. Maremagnum, Barcelona.
  • 2010 – Caja Azul 2da. edición: Ser fotoperiodista, una cuestión vital. Mattia Insolera y Bru Rovira. – Centre Civic Pati Llimona. Barcelona.
  • 2010 – Caja Azul 1ra. edición: Lectura fotográfica: Los procesos de valoración en fotografía. María Rosa Vila, Rafa Badia, Paco Elvira, Manel Úbeda y Alfons Rodríguez. – IDEP. Barcelona.

• “Branguilí va ser aquí, I tu?” and “ Barcelona 2000-2011” software, social networking, promotion for open participation. Exhibition: CCCB, Barcelona.

• Support to Photographic Social Vision in “DOMESTIC, a network space”: software, social networking, promotion for open participation. Exhibition: Centre Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, 198 photographers, 1049 pictures, May and June 2010.

Software engineering experience

Hotelbeds

Lead Solution Architect

01/12/2023 – 30/08/2024 – Palma, Spain

Lead the design and implementation of a scalable data architecture utilizing Kafka, Kafka Connect, Airflow, DBT, Snowflake, Tableau, and other technologies. This architecture supports real-time data processing and MLOps initiatives, ensuring robust data management and governance across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architectural Leadership: Coordinate the deployment of a data architecture that integrates real-time data streams and machine learning operations.
• Technology Integration: Manage the selection and implementation of key data tools, ensuring seamless interoperability and alignment with business goals.
• Governance Frameworks: Oversee the creation of an Architecture Reference Model (ARM) and Technology Reference Model ( TRM) to guide the technology stack.
• Data Management: Enable data autodiscovery and governance through tools like OpenMetadata, fostering data transparency and accessibility.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with data engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to support analytics and MLOps use cases.
• Continuous Improvement: Optimize the architecture for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness while staying current with industry trends.

Enterprise Architect

16/03/2021 – 01/12/2023 – Palma, Spain

As an Enterprise Architect (EA), I am driving the definition of our company’s data architecture and strategy to enable a data-driven business. I leverage tools such as Airflow, Kafka Connect, Snowflake, Tableau, and others to build a robust infrastructure. Our goal is to lay the foundation for advanced analytics, with plans to integrate MLOps in the near future.

Applied Science Solution Architect

31/12/2018 – 16/03/2021 – Palma, Spain

Worked with internal clients and data scientists to find the best way to Nationality: Spanish, Argentinian implement the solutions that helps the company to be take more data oriented decisions using from standard statistics to machine learning.

Developed internal Python standards, created training material for development teams, and defined Airflow implementation.

QA Manager

30/11/2016 – 31/12/2018 – Palma, Spain

Help the organization to transform testing strategies to achieve Continuous Deployment by implementing a test automation suite to cover functional testing.

Support company wide agile transformation in a “bimodal” delivery model (waterfall legacy and continuous deployment)

Create an automated testing architecture for both back and front end systems and a test automation development team.

Manage a 40+ team. Working with London, Barcelona and Tel Aviv, remotely and in site.

Change and Release Manager

30/11/2016 – 30/11/2017 – Palma, Spain

Manage a team of Change, Release and Deploy analyst.

Support the Continuous Deployment initiative by given the organization new process to facilitate the transformation to a product oriented methodology.

Release and Deployment Manager

22/06/2014 – 30/11/2016

Deployment coordination for 24x7 service, with a complex infrastructure and application interdependency. 200 cataloged applications. Coordination of 25 people in intervention with system stop.

Coordinate CAB meetings. Intervention calendar maintenance.

Consulting within the “Environments Redisign Project” to implement a complete life cycle development process. Including: source code branching model, continuous integration, full traceability from demand to production deploy.

Stash, Bamboo, JIRA integration.

Indra Sistemas S.A.

Configuration and Release Management

31/01/2006 – 19/06/2014

• Ensure source automatic merging and deployments for daily testing and production environments
• (linux/weblogic)
• Design, develop and implement life cycles for software development from change requests to
• deployments using subversion, hudson/jenkins, ant, maven and scripting. (Implementing SCM patterns)
• Configure Continuous Integration tools and testing environments: Linux, hudson (servers and slaves), subversion, apache,
• sonar servers.
• Also design, manage and implement JIRA workflows.

Programmer analyst

31/12/2000 – 30/12/2005

• Analyze and design new developments and assign task to developers (2-4 members)
• Debug and solve priority incidents.
• Manage source code and version distribution.
• Platform: Visual Basic
• First contacts with JEE technologies.
• Also: Manage teams of teachers during a nation wide implementation of Loto systems.

Cruïlla Informática SCCL

Computer systems analyst

31/01/1999 – 30/12/2000

• Visual Basic programming and testing.
• Novell network administration.

Freelance IT consulting

31/12/1990 – 30/08/1998

• Network configuration consulting and maintaining. Commercial systems programming COBOL, BASIC, Pascal y Clipper.
• Environments: Novell 3.12, DOS, Win 3.1/95/98, LANtastic, Linux.
• Software: Paradox para Windows, MS FoxPro 2.5, Delphi, C++., RM-Cobol 74, 8x y 85.Borland Turbo.
• Basic. Borland Pascal. CA-Clipper 87, 5.1.