My Portfolio
Welcome, my name is Steven Emmason. I’m a professional senior engineering manager specialized in building and optimizing software development teams. Large or small I love to help realise true potential and innovation. Experienced in all aspects of the software development life cycle. So, if you’re interested in the possibilities of AI, starting a team from scratch, expanding, resolving performance issues, or even quality of product and services improvement, I’m your chap.
Summary
What I Offer
Tailoring a software development solution to fit the needs of your business and products/services.
There’s no such thing as a one fit solution. Even the same company has to change over time, so it makes sense that any product/service delivery process has to do the same. This is where I come in.
Auditing & Analysis with Project Management
Many years experience as a manager coupled with being an ISO certified auditor.
A large variety of tools on my tool belt to help assess existing processes and procedures, along with a logical analytical mind set and method to help team identify risks with those critical pain points. Help make change a reality.
Macro and micro analysis of existing teams and infrastructure. After all it’s the complete solution not bits of it that determine how well you deliver.
SDLC Best Practices
ILM level 5 Leadership & Management. ISEB practitioner in development and testing
Many years experience in setting up various agile frameworks e.g. Kanban, Crystal, Scrum, Lean, XP…
Build a focused team that are not only proud of what they’ve achieved but also enjoy it. You then get true ownership and commitment.
How to leverage AI into both your technologies and day to day processes is a question everyone is asking in today’s climate.
Quality
6 Sigma Green Belt.
Several years as both a quality engineer and then running a quality engineering team.
Well versed in a variety of quality control methods and tools. Including ISO 25010 and 29119. Drive 3C’s correctness, completeness, and consistency.
Customer focused. Easy to say but only meaningful when the customers believe this.
Tailored Solutions for Your Unique Vision
Too many solutions out there promise a tool to fix your problems. As you’re well aware business practices need to be sculpted to meet the vision of the future. I’ve been lucky enough in my career to see and try many solutions and strongly believe in building a flexible team that utilises aspects from any proven source to be successful.
Professional Expertise That Drives Success
Decisions that have a strong basis in driving success. I can devise a technical team strategy to achieve your business objectives. Of course it also needs to be cost effective with a good business case. Cost and ROI are often the key decision factors. Something I often do in my career.
Leading and managing are not the same and require different skills. Experienced in leading and managing remote, hybrid, and office teams, both in UK and internationally. Leveraging the advantages of these to match the business. Developing people and teams while identifying talent and offering career opportunities is a key element to my success and promotes an open, trusting, and friendly environment.
I’m proud of the people and teams I’ve managed through the years.
My Work
Experience Cases
Some examples of me in action.
Establishing a Test Team
A development team had a limited testing capability and as such the quality of the product suffered with over 60% of bugs being found by customers. I tackled this by first improving the agile team testing and adopting unit testing by the developers. I then followed this up with a separate test team that I built from scratch. After two months of implementing a test team and the development improvements the customer bug exposure dropped to less than 10%. After a year this dropped to less than 1%.
System Design
I led the design and implementation of a new production software system for a Greek production facility. I wrote and presented a business case in direct competition with other proposals to the board of directors. This was accepted and went immediately into planning and implementation. I utilised an existing UK development team, and created a new team in Greece. I had to keep many key stake holders involved with a variety of communication and reporting methods. The project was completed with the production system being adopted elsewhere.
Development Process Evaluation
I audited the entire software delivery life cycle for an R&D department using LEAN criteria and driving for value. This involved mapping sessions for multiple teams and groups to determine a true view of current process. Plenty of waste was identified and removed but it also required fundamental changes to ways of working and mind sets including restructure of teams and policies. Ultimately this facilitated the change from a process that took weeks to one which could be completed in days.
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Elevate Your Development Team’s Potential
If you like what I’m offering then I invite you to contact me and I’d be happy to discuss the possibilities.