Steven lives and breathes agile development,
keeping the team motivated and delivering top quality client projects

Paul Oram, Head of Technology, FreshNetworks

As Programme Manager on the BBC’s demanding and complex Journalism Portal programme, Steven has applied his extensive knowledge of agile techniques with flair and skill to achieve delivery on time and on budget. His flexible and creative approach has enabled the programme to adapt to meet challenges head on and to keep moving ahead successfully.

Simon Andrewes, Programme Director, Journalism Portal, BBC

I have a proven track record of leading large engineering teams in successfully developing and deploying software products and Internet services for a global market.

Since 2000 I have been leading Agile teams using DSDM, Scrum, XP, Lean Software Development or more usually a mix appropriate to the situation.

Major achievements:

• Led the web engineering team of 105 that developed BBC iPlayer (version 1)
• Delivered BBC Democracy Live with 70 people in 10 organisations across five countries. Winner of the Media Guardian Innovation Award for Best Use of Web Platforms
• Delivered a range of shrink-wrapped internet security products for a successful start up – MailMarshal, WebMarshal
• Facilitated the successful Agile transformation of a department with 350 people