Massimo Franza

Senior Director

IQVIA

Massimo Franza is senior director of software engineering at IQVIA and is responsible for the overall development, testing and release of IQVIA's Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs (QARA) product solutions.

Franza has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise class software applications in Europe and the United States. He joined IQVIA in 2007, where, before taking the role of director of software development, he managed the product development and the team responsible to build SmartStudio, the low-code development quality and compliance platform used to build the integrated modules that compose the SmartSolve suite.

Expert in agile practices, Franza is certified in IT project management (ITCPM) and in CMMI for continuous process improvement.

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