Positions available: One student, or one already established team of up to four students with a team lead who would be my primary contact. This team must already have good working relationships amongst each other and complementary skills (ie - UI/UX/Design vs Swift, vs web development, etc.)

NOTICE: We are no longer accepting applications for the spring semester. You are welcome to apply if you wish to work in the summer/fall.

We've developed a prototype of a mental health support app as a progressive web application, "thrive" but need to move into being an iPhone application so that we can begin beta-testing with users.

This is a rapid prototyping / get stuff live / practice lean startup, agile, and MVP development and testing project. You won't spend all your time ideating - we've already done that. Your goal is to help us get real live MVP work done, where other people can see it, give us feedback to help us improve, and be able to use the live, working product(s) to show future employers that you've got the skills, not just the education when you graduate and are trying to get hired.

Based on your skill set, we'll work together on what reasonable next steps in MVP development and testing should look like. We'll be using Jira, Slack, and Jit.si for communicating asynchronously and live.

Students should be prepared to:

• Create simple feeder page website on wordpress for sharing information on the app, blog articles, news, and directing people to the apple store link once developed.
• Create and launch at least 1 initial MVP of the app in the store
• Create detailed documentation on work performed and the structure that would enable an easy-hand-off to a future intern or other team members in the future

Will be working directly with me, the CEO, who provides a high level of supervision and mentorship via text and live calls. Interns often work with me during "live" work sessions where I am available to share screens, give guidance, troubleshoot, review/etc. I have 20 years experience in business and marketing including prior experience as a programmer and in leading web development teams plus an MBA and PhD. You can read more about me if you look me up on LinkedIn or look at my CV at www.alicevoedwards.com

Will also able to get mentorship from the developer of the existing website, sms module, and Alexa skill who is a senior technology lead - he will mostly be available via slack to ask questions. He has developed and launched other iPhone apps in the past and can provide advice and direction from that perspective, also.