SERVICES & SKILLS
Here are the ways I can help with the 4 stages of an app’s creation:
Enhance the concept
Including levers of growth from origination
- Define app monetisation plan to increase revenue and profitability
- Define a retention and review strategy to build reputation and visibility
- Ensure compliance with Apple’s guidelines
- Analyse competitors: revenues, downloads, strengths and weaknesses
- Align levers with target audience to maximise revenue
Implement the app
Building a user-friendly and attractive app
- Define specifications for the main user functionalities and the navigation based on ‘use case’ scenarios
- Create screen wireframes and collaborate with design team to create an attractive User Experience and choose engaging icons
- Develop an app in accordance with best practices that will be easy to evolve and maintain, and define test plan and beta test with real users
Release the app
Building a communication and visibility strategy
- Broader discoverability with relevant keywords
- Appeal to customers with attractive and engaging description
- Create marketing screenshots and App Preview video to boost downloads
- Create a buzz: Reach specialised and niche media to announce the release, grow a social community around the app or a Facebook app page, etc.
Increase App Store Optimisation (ASO)
Growing your visibility, downloads and revenues
- Analyse app performance: number of views on the store, downloads, revenues, reviews
- Improve performance with a pragmatic ASO methodology (changing app name, keywords, icons, screenshots, etc.)
- Convert your bad reviews to good ones on Android
- Reward customers who spread the word
ABOUT ME
After a Master’s degree in Computer Science, I worked for three years in an IT consulting company where I developed project management skills on large financial and insurance projects.
In 2009 I started freelance activities by creating my first apps when Apple first introduced the App Store. My activities at that time involved working with design teams, language translators and other developers to make high quality apps. Since then my expertise has widened to adapt to the app store evolution and I have also been focusing on a real new challenge: being visible in large and saturated stores and increasing app performance (downloads, reviews, visibility and revenue) with App Store Optimisation (ASO). My app collection is therefore a large asset, as it allows me to test new strategies and stay abreast of new challenges in the app industry in a very efficient manner.
Since 2014, I have also used my extensive experience to assist start-ups and SMEs at all stages of their mobile development.
Today, with 17 years of experience, I build native apps with Swift and SwiftUI on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android, and I keep growing my own apps: Currency Converter, Unit Converter, Banana Split, TimeTo and Timesheet.
Technical skills
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iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, REST API - Android: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, REST API
- Development platform: Xcode, Android Studio
- Development tools: GitHub, Firebase, RevenueCat
- Design: Photoshop
- ASO tools: Astro, Appfigures, Apple Search Ads
REFERENCES
Editor Apps
Currency Converter
With 2.2 million unique downloads.
Reviewed by the Guardian.
Contractor Apps
Info Watt – Datanumia
Electricity consumption app for EDF’s Info Watt service
- Contributed to the iOS app development
Kartable
An educational app for a French start-up that raised €1 million in 2015
- Conducted workshops with CEO and CTO to build the specifications (defined functionalities, navigation, etc.)
- Managed the mobile development team
- Worked in collaboration with design and back-end teams
- Developed the iOS app
BestWool – NZ
- Developed the iOS & Android app
- Beta-tested on TestFlight
- Published the app
GET IN TOUCH
Olivier Bernal
La turbine
3-5 Esp. Andry Farcy,
38000 Grenoble
Tel: 06 11 52 32 60
Email: olivier@oworld.fr