Steven Schofield
CTO / Technical Director
43 years old
Driving License
Wimborne (BH21 5DT) United Kingdom
Professional Status
Available soon
Open to opportunities
About Me
I believe technology and design has the power to change the way we live our lives and for experiences to become ever more personalised and engaging.
I have been told that the key to my success in developing business is my ability to talk in plain english, to put complex things in simple terms and ability to execute.
I'm hands on - the web and iOS / OSX development is my playground. I use code to communicate ideas, by making things tangible quickly and iterating the idea by getting it into the hands of real people.
I like micro-services architectures, API-first approaches and very focussed client applications and experiences.
I have a diverse perspective, having worked with small startup teams to large corporations across areas of Retail, Marketing and Digital Media and am comfortable from Board Level down.
I'm an experienced leader, managing cross-functional technical teams at senior/board level and I excel at product delivery with tight budgets and limited resources.
I have been told that the key to my success in developing business is my ability to talk in plain english, to put complex things in simple terms and ability to execute.
I'm hands on - the web and iOS / OSX development is my playground. I use code to communicate ideas, by making things tangible quickly and iterating the idea by getting it into the hands of real people.
I like micro-services architectures, API-first approaches and very focussed client applications and experiences.
I have a diverse perspective, having worked with small startup teams to large corporations across areas of Retail, Marketing and Digital Media and am comfortable from Board Level down.
I'm an experienced leader, managing cross-functional technical teams at senior/board level and I excel at product delivery with tight budgets and limited resources.
Owner, CEO, CTO
Beach Limited
Since April 2010
Wimborne
United Kingdom
- Beach.io is a tech company, based in Bournemouth, UK which has transitioned from a services company to a product company.
- Forge (http://getforge.com) - A super simple, lightning fast way to host websites.
- Hammer (http://hammerformac.com) - A beautiful mac OS app for building websites.
- Anvil (http://anvilformac.com) - An elegant mac menu bar app for running local development environments without localhost.
- My main expertise lies in Ruby (Rails), Javascript (React.js, Node + Express)Mobile iOS (Objective C and Swift)Mac OS (Objective C and Swift)
- I write about our products, development and ideas at http://blog.beach.io and through our community platform http://guild.beach.io
- Our products are used by more than 10,000 web designers and developers around the world.
- Fully bootstrapped and 100% owned company
- I have completed numerous individual projects for Beach clients, from simple websites to complex mobile and web-based software applications.
- Active open-source contributor, including a number of own open-source projects (Hammer Compiler, Forge-Server)
CTO & Co-Founder
Nuwe Limited
Since October 2014
Full-time
London
United Kingdom
- Responsibility for technical output of the development team across the stack
- Development team budgets, strategy, hiring and training
- Technical architecture design
- Prototyping and concept validation
- Both supporting and leading business development opportunities for bespoke software development and turnkey solutions
- Project management and responsibility for project delivery
- Technology workflows for distributed teams
- Security & compliance for PHI
- Machine intelligence technologies, infrastructure and algorithm / engine design
- Developer advocate, APIs, Documentation and Content Strategy (see http://blog.nuwe.co)
- Experience across IoT / M2M protocols, connected devices, sensors & wearables
- I am consultant for NICE & pan-european / WHO alliance on the future of Mobile Health.
- Alumni of Startup Bootcamp Accelerator programme, Barcelona - IoT & Data
- Mentor @ Silicon South and First Bourne Accelerator
- Built Nutribu, Nutrition tracking app for iOS (www.nutribu.com)
- Built Nuwe, Wellness Scoring app for iOS (http://appstore.com/nuwe)
CTO
Nourish Care Systems Limited
October 2013
to September 2014
Part-time
Bournemouth
United Kingdom
- Built V1 of the Nourish Care API and Web Interface, responsible for UX, UI and full-stack build.
- Built V1 of the Nourish iOS application for Carers, a simple note-taking application to digitise care notes, that leveraged offline mode and local storage to help in situations where network coverage is unreliable.
- Built V2 of the Nourish Carers iOS application, a complete Care Plan management app for care homes, enabling Carers to view daily tasks, record care notes to centralized care plans in the Nourish Care platform.
- Supported CEO in fundraising, successfully raising £400k in seed finance.
- Supported CEO in sales and business development opportunities with local authorities, care commissioning bodies and care homes.
Technical Director
Bright Blue Day Limited
April 2013
to October 2013
Full-time
Bournemouth
United Kingdom
- As part of the senior management team at BBD, I am responsible for the strategic direction of the digital offer within the agency, departmental P&L, project budgets and overall delivery quality.
- I lead a team of engineers working with such clients as UBS, Zurich Insurance and Visa.Mixed workflow between Enterprise-CMS solutions (Tridion, Kentico etc.) and your shiny web projects static html / css / js, PHP based CMS projects, python / Django).
- The thing I was most proud of was creating an educational programme for developers to learn design and designers to learn code, in order to improve our business culture, collaboration and remove the previous silos that hindered quality and productivity.
- I was also a "Fixer", brought in to fix problem legacy projects that had managed to get out of hand and to work with all stakeholders for an effective resolution.
International Account Director
ARNO
September 2006
to November 2009
Full-time
Bristol
United Kingdom
- Building new business opportunities in retail & POS markets for creation of in-store marketing and retail interior projects
- Ownership of £2m annual sales target
- Responsibility for full project lifecycle - from generating opportunities, winning new business, delivering complex global manufacturing supply chains in Europe and Far East, distribution and installation into EMEA, US, Latin America
- Successfully won projects with HTC, BT, Kohler, Adidas AG, Samsung
- Grew Adidas AG account from new opportunity to £7m total contract value in 2009
Account Director
Bezier Limited
September 2003
to September 2006
Full-time
Poole
United Kingdom
- Responsibility for key account plan of £1.5m, including sales with key accounts, delivery of projects and ensuring commercial success across business units.
- Responsible for Direct Wines account (largest by revenue and profit contribution in the company)
- Managed a team of 3 account executives
- Mentor for new account managers
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Strategy
I can see the top-level, understand and recognise macro-trends with a visionary perspective on the futureAdvanced
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Nurturing Tech Talent
I invest regularly in identifying and nurturing technical talent from around the world across the stack. I have developed a system and mentality that makes this effective in a competitive market.Advanced
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Networking
I have attended numerous technology events, both as exhibitor (Web Summit, Slush, CES, Computex) and Speaker (Connected Conference, Innovex Taipei)Good
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Finance
Whilst not an accountant, I have solid commercial skills, particularly in relation to managing large scale projects.Good
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UI Design
Sketch is my weapon of choice.Good
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UX Design & Strategy
Fundamental to everything I do, is UX strategy and transforming ideas into experiencesExpert
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Animation & Motion Graphics
After Effects CC is a hobby of mineGood
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Objective-C
For a non C-based language trained developer, a solid understanding of the language, syntax and its application in numerous products, 2 of which are currently live on the iOS app store and 1 native Mac application available for download.Advanced
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Swift
Most recently building new iOS projects using Swift 2.2Good
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Cocoa Touch
Good knowledge and practical experience with core API's, libraries and frameworksAdvanced
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JavaScript
Solid understanding of ES5/ES6 standards, frameworks such as React, Ember and Node.js / Express for building web applications.Good
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Ruby on Rails
TDD based Rails experience. Rspec, Cucumber, Capybara. Rails as an API. OAuth through Doorkeeper & Omniauth strategies.Good
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Front End General
Rolling up html (slim, jade templating), css (SASS, SCSS), js (coffeescript) into one skillAdvanced
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Git
Git for everything! Git flow process for collaborative projects.Good
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Business Development
Identifying opportunities, leading creative pitches and concept proposals and delivering on financial targets.Advanced
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Project Management
Managing complex projects with demanding timelines and multiple stakeholders.Advanced
Achieved 2:1 for 3-year undergraduate course.
Achieved 82% (1st class honours) and highest grade in the academic year for my dissertation on the "The anthropometric and physiological differences between elite and non-elite child footballers"
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Achieved 82% (1st class honours) and highest grade in the academic year for my dissertation on the "The anthropometric and physiological differences between elite and non-elite child footballers"
- KateBot - an AI-driven Nutritionist Assistant BOT for iOS (http://guild.beach.io/t/building-a-nutritionist-assistant-bot-with-nuwe/80/1)
- Braindu - a web app for managing information collaboratively (http://braindu.com)
- Mason - a sketch plugin that converts Sketch projects to functional React / React-Native components for building apps and websites (http://guild.beach.io/t/using-sketch-as-react-config-generator/82/1)
- Organiser of This Week in Startups London, in conjunction with This Week In Startups (http://thisweekinstartups.com).
- Co-organizer of Hackbmth (http://hackbmth.org)
- Mentor at Startup Bootcamp & Alumni Member
- Karate - 1st Dan Black Belt
- Golf - 5 Handicap
- Adventure/Extreme Sports (not as much these days, with 3 children)
- Technologies and Coding
- Entrepreneurs and Business Biographies
