Steven Thomas Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

- Rescue: Part of rescue team to enable trade sale of FSB Technology by Private Equity owners; my role was to bring efficiencies in the delivery team of 172- Cost Savings: Halved cost of delivery team and halved headcount; consolidated locations so 85% of team were in the two key locations (England, India)- Product Development: Enabled product led.

London

• Responsible for managing budget of £65 million, and portfolio of work by 550 staff.
• Opened the Financial Times office in Bulgaria and grew the product development team in Sofia from zero to over 160. This reduced departmental costs by £3 million for re-investment elsewhere, while also allowing overall.
• Championed Data Driven Delivery: reduced Production Lead Time by 23% i.e. iniatives were delivered faster; finished 81% more initiatives per year; improved predictability of estimates by 30%.
• Introduced the Objective-Key-Result (OKR) approach. This, and Data Driven Delivery, increased Focus by 30%.
• Reduced annual investment planning from 390 person days to 20 person days.
• Strengthened the delivery management function. Introduced a Delivery Golden Path to make onboarding of new staff easier and longer term to increase consistency of approach. Introduced a career path for Delivery.

[Concurrent]

London, United Kingdom

[one extension then recruited into a permanent role]

London, United Kingdom

Staff 90.- Won the contract for the BBC Weather Service via a European Union (EU) procurement process. The cross functional team of 15 (commercial, legal, meteorologyl, technical) was spread across the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. - Led the team of 90+ to transition BBC Weather to MeteoGroup technology and services. Mobilised and managed a team.

London, United Kingdom

Budget £2.5 million per annum in addition to permanent staff costs, 30 Staff. Increased revenue +3% by optimsing the sales approach using a bespoke web based order management system (gPlan). Launched the Digital Audio Exchange (DAX) - a platform the gives advertisers a single buying point for digital music brands across connected mobile devices in the UK..

Budget £12 million, 70 Staff. Led major transformational change programmes for BBC News. Transformed the collaborative working practices within BBC News by building and rolling out Journalism Portal (JPortal). Managed change for 12,000 Journalists globally. Realised both financial benefits and significant creative benefits. Delivered Democracy Live website.

Budget £8 million, 105 Staff. Managed the Software Engineering team responsible for the core applications and services that supported the www.bbc.co.uk website, a site with over 30 million visitors a month. Managed the highly scalable web platforms for Identity, User Generated Content, Content Management, and Programme Information, Voting, Mobile and.

London, United Kingdom

Budget £3 million, 30 Staff. Led a development team specialising in e-commerce solutions within Financial Services. Delivered a family of web based personal financial planning tools for Egg the Internet Bank (“Egg Money Calculator”, “Debt Manager”). 2 year duration; team of 30 from three organisations. Delivered an innovative web-based trading platform for.

Facilitated introduction of Extreme Programming (XP).

Budget NZ$1 million, 8 Staff. Managed the software side of a small IT consultancy that then created a product in Start Up mode. Created award winning shrink-wrap product range in IT security (MarshalSoftware) leading to successful trade sale of product range. Increased software development annual turnover by 300%.

Launched the polytechnic’s first degree programme: Bachelor of Information Systems (BInfoSys). Wrote the curiculum, got government approval, and hired the teaching staff.