Development Team
Alan Bias
Alan Bias is a dedicated Christian, devout husband, proud father of three, accomplished pastor, inspirational speaker, and author of the book, Walking with God in a World Gone Busy.
In his youth he attended Indiana University and then traveled to 23 countries in Up With People. In 1990 Alan attended bible school before becoming a pastor at New Creation Fellowship in Denton, Texas. He spent six years serving as president of the Denton Gospel Mission Homeless Shelter for men and founded The Salvation Army Women and Children’s Shelter as well as a Christ-centered drug and alcohol rehabilitation home. With a heart for evangelism, he organized and led many community outreaches in Dallas, Fort Worth, and other communities in the DFW Metroplex. Alan has led mission trips to Mexico and Cuba, living in homes, meeting needs, and preaching the Gospel while providing training for workers. He was a pastor at Sojourn Church in North Dallas from 1999 to 2006 before becoming a church, ministry, and small business consultant. In 2011 Alan wrote the book, “Walking with God in a World Gone Busy”. His book is dedicated to encouraging and helping believers remember the faithfulness of God in their lives. He became Executive Pastor of Heritage Family Church and a public speaker from 2012 to 2017. His speaking engagements included Teach Them Diligently national conventions and a National Association of University Model Schools national convention. In 2017 Alan became the lead Pastor of Fully Awakening Community Church (FACC). In 2019 he became the chairman of the board for LIT Bible study. In 2021 he transitioned FACC to a monthly fellowship, began formally mentoring the young adults of LIT bible study, and committed himself fully to raising funds for the creation of a web-app entitled, “Remembering the Faithfulness of God”.
The concepts of being God-Conscious and using technology to remember all the many ways God shows himself faithful is the main theme of Alan’s book, “Walking with God in a World Gone Busy”.
Roberto Skertchly
Roberto will be actively involved in the development, implementation, launching, and operations of the Remembering the Faithfulness of God web, iPhone and Android apps and in the management of the Remembering the Faithfulness of God non-profit organization. He is an active retired financial advisory services and management consultant. He worked for 2 of the top 5 financial advisory services and management consulting companies, Ernst & Young, and PWC. Currently he is focused on strategy discovery, development, and implementation. He works as a consultant or as a de facto Chief Strategy Officer.
Roberto has considerable experience in mobile apps, having collaborated in the development and implementation of a very diverse set of mobile apps. In 2012 he and a group of friends launched the development of Ignio, seeking to be “the only iPhone and Android App that would help you live, share, and track your Catholic Faith.” The Ignio for iPhone was successfully launched in 2013
William Skertchly
William is an expert in building and implementing cost-effective, high performance operation infrastructures and technology solutions in support of both start-up and mature organizations growth. He has successfully built culturally diverse, team-centered operating units, with excellent business process and strategy development skills. He will oversee the application development providing the Remembering the Faithfulness of God team more than 20 years of experience in all phases of a project life cycle, from initial feasibility and conceptual design through implementation and enhancement.
Project overview
Software Development Team
Founded in 2012, Fortekna has become a full stack application development firm with Headquarters in Dallas, Texas and 2 Innovation Centers located in central Mexico. Their team of engineers, developers, UX/UI designers and project managers thrive on working together to craft innovative mobile and web solutions that power organizations like Tarrant County, Topo Chico and Ole Mexican Foods. As part of the Dallas Startup communnity Fortekna has help different initiatives in the Health Care, Business Management and Social Engineering business.
With more than 30 collaborators Fortekna has the bandwidth and capabilities to tackle large and complex projects on short notice using a Hybrid Project Staffing Model that pairs onsite project management and technical architecture, with a nearshore development team so you get the quality and working relationship you want at a competitive price.
Fortekna offers 2 types of services: Innovation and Creation and IT Strategy and Solutions.
Their innovation and creation centers offer:
- End to end consulting and Custom development services
- High quality code packages with Software Factory
- Increase customer’s IT capabilities and bandwidth with Team Augmentation
- IT Outsourcing to take over IT Department processes and Infrastructure
Their IT Strategy and Solution Services include:
- IT Solution Validation
- IT Operations Management and improvement
- BPM (Business Process Management)
- Software and System Implementation
- Software Integration y Migration
- Project Management
Management and Operations Team
Once the application is released, Alan, Roberto and William will continue overseeing and managing the operations. Fortekna will support, manage, and control the operation of the three apps, web, iPhone, and Android once they are initially deployed.
It is essential to allocate time for the additions and fixes occurring after the initial release. These updates may be necessary upon the user’s request or because of the identified bugs that occurred during the development.
Post-development support includes a range of services, from managed hosting to updating API’s to and malware protection, contributing to the infrastructure stability, project quality and reliability of the introduced functionality.
Our support tools allow clear communication removing ambiguity and contribute to the transparency of the processes capturing additions and fixes, customizing the application while removing any bugs in the shortest period possible.