I am a software development consultant whose areas of expertise include object-oriented analysis, modeling and design (OOA/OOD), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and agile software development methods, in predominantly J2EE environments.

I started my career as a C and FORTRAN developer working on several multi-million dollar industrial monitoring and control projects in the UK. I then spent six years working on large business process automation projects in Singapore using Oracle, C++, and Java.

The last eight years have been spent working as a software development consultant, independently, for TogetherSoft, and, most recently, for Borland. This has included significant periods of work at clients like Getronics, British Telecom, and HM Customs & Excise.

Recent Comments by Stephen

On Am I, or Am I Not, Using Scrum? That is the Question.
Agile is about adapting. In the end it is producing working software that is important not the name of the process. Having said that, it is important to understand Scrum, the principles behind it, etc, etc, before adapting otherwise you run the ri...
On Leadership Reading List
As background reading on the topic, I like Gerald Weinberg's Quality Software Management books (his other books are well-worth reading too).