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)
Company Description
Beach.io makes beautiful tools for web designers and developers.
Company website
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)
Detailed Description
- Board member and co-founder.
I head up the Technology aspects of Nuwe as business unit owner.
I'm responsible for all aspects of the Nuwe Technology offer, from sales through to delivery of client projects as well as all of the development of our core Technology Platform.
Hiring and training new technical resources across the stack
Expert knowledge in front-end (particularly fond of static tech), back end (ruby / rails & node / express) and native mobile (predominantly iOS swift / objC) technology stacks
Company Description
Nuwe is a PaaS for building personalised services using technology.
Company website
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.
Detailed Description
- Nourish Care was a very rewarding project to work on, due to the tangible impact we could have on the lives of people in Care and the special people who work hard to serve them.
- I unfortunately could not continue to support the project as Nourish required a full time CTO to take over, which I could not commit to at the time due to other business interests. I hired and trained the person who assumed the role.
Company Description
Nourish Care is a technology company that provides mobile and web technology solutions for care homes and domiciliary care providers.
Company website
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.
Company Description
Bright Blue Day is an award-winning integrated agency, with offices in London and Bournemouth. Working with clients such as UBS, Visa, Zurich, Scottish Power.
Company website
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
Company Description
ARNO UK Limited, a subsidiary of ARNO GmbH, a Germany-based retail and point of sale manufacturing and design company. ARNO works with top global retail brands producing retail design concepts and manufacturing equipment for POS to full store environments.
Company website
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
Detailed Description
- I started at Bezier as an Estimator, and worked my way quickly to an Account Executive, Account Manager and upon leaving, was key Account Director of the company's largest account.
Company Description
Bezier was one of the UK's largest print POS and retail marketing companies and was purchased by Midocean Private Equity. It went into administration in 2013.
