Steve Schofield's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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I am passionate about startups, technology and new ideas that disrupt existing industries and ways of thinking. I'm particularly passionate about improving the way we interact with and manage information, healthcare and fitness. I have worked with small startup teams to large corporations across areas of Retail, Marketing and Digital Media. Specialties: business startup, new ventures, team leadership, people motivation, planning, project management, sales process, client relationships, copyrighting, strategy creation, international business,CTO @ All round tech guy, responsible for building the API, business logic and fun, engaging client applications across web and mobile platforms. I run a growing team of Ruby on Rails, Javascript and iOS/ObjC developers. We are passionate about changing the way people interact with food and nutrition. From January 2013 to Present (3 years) London, United KingdomConsultant / Project Director @ Beach.io is a specialist digital services company, based in Bournemouth. We build products for ourselves and for our clients. Our Products: Nuwe (http://nuwe.co) - A developer platform for building next generation health and wellness experiences. 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. Our Clients: We work with startups and established organisations to provide full product development expertise, with a UX-driven approach aided by agile development and lean startup philosophies. Our Technology: We are pretty flexible when it comes to choice of development tools, but our main expertise lies in Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, Middleman) Javascript (Backbone.js, React.js, Ember.js, Jquery) Mobile iOS (Objective C and Swift) Mac OS (Objective C and Swift) Mobile Android (Java) Machine Learning and Statistical Modelling UX Design Pre-compilers & Templating (SASS, Less, Slim, HAML) You get the idea. From May 2010 to Present (5 years 8 months) Technical Director @ As part of the senior management team at BBD, I am responsible for the strategic direction of the digital offer within the agency. I am particularly looking at building a rock-star team of passionate, innovate front-end end back-end developers with skills in HTML5/CSS3 (SASS or LESS) Javascript/CoffeeScript Templating languages Backbone.js Ruby on Rails PHP MVC (Codeigniter, Laravel etc.) Objective C / Java If you like the sunny South Coast lifestyle and working with great clients among talented team members, then please reach out. From June 2013 to November 2013 (6 months) Co Founder & CEO @ MySpareBrain is your active desktop for the web. No longer do you need to have all your websites, tools, apps and services open in browser tabs, MySpareBrain gives you a flexible freeform canvas to organise all these things together, exactly how you want them, wherever you are. Bookmarks & Notes? Not a problem. But what if these were active? Easy. We pull in real time information to keep your information live and up to date. What about if you can have Twitter users, Facebook users, Google Plus users, Youtube videos, Angel List members, Kickstarter projects, Ebay products all together, instead of in their own apps? You can do that with MySpareBrain. This is a Killer Tool for entrepreneurs, academics, educators, researchers, journalists, students and anyone who spends time on the web handling lots of information, apps and services. Adeo Ressi, Founder Institute said "This is one of the Coolest things I've seen" Boonsri Dickinson, Business Insider said "One of my top 2 companies at Launch Demo pit" From November 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomTechnical Consultant @ Responsible for turnkey design, development and implementation of a web based ePOS software for London based food company. From May 2011 to October 2012 (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomOrganiser @ I organise TWiSTldn, a meetup group for entrepreneurs and investors in the London area. We hold monthly meetups, currently at The Collective, Camden Town. The format of the meetup is to network among peers in a laid back and casual atmosphere. The core element of the event are the 5 or so pitching companies who present their business or idea. Those presentations & businesses are then rated by the attendees. The winning pitch then goes forward to represent TWiSTldn and pitch live on the popular Internet Show This Week in Startups, flagship show of the This Week In network, hosted by Jason Calacanis. Global Meetup shows pit the best ideas from cities around the world, including London, Paris, Madrid, Rotterdam, Sydney, Male as well as many of the main US Cities. To apply to pitch at a TWiSTldn event, visit www.twistldn.com. From July 2010 to July 2012 (2 years 1 month) Technical Advisor @ I advise and manage the technical development, security and digital strategy for a new Online Gaming company. The first product is in development, but (and this is strange for me) it is in Stealth Mode. More to follow when I can... From January 2010 to April 2012 (2 years 4 months) Technical Consultant / Project Director @ Building on the success of the UK's leading league administration platform, football.mitoo.co.uk and Goalrun, a club and team website service, I was responsible for managing the full design and development process for Mitoo.com, a socially enabled platform for UK grass roots football. From July 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomFounder & Community Pioneer @ Fidgetstick/ is a social network for adventurous people. We launched our ALPHA in January 2008 and with no funding, limited time whilst working our day jobs and maximum passion and insane levels of optimism. Having completed the initial redevelopment of the our BETA version, we relaunched on March 1st 2010. Having given ourselves a whole lot more time to devote to growing this community and a more scaleable platform, our early results have been impressive. Our unrelenting purpose is to get people off their a*ses and outside being active. Fidgetstick/ is there so they can come back and tell everyone all about it. From January 2008 to December 2011 (4 years) Development Director @ Working with the management team, my role is to help develop and grow this already thriving retail marketing business. Primarily through sales consultancy and key account development. A major part of my role is to challenge the business into thinking more broadly about all of the factors which influence our clients and their customers, across multiple channels which are becoming more closely synchronised in this digital and social world. That's very different to other retail marketing agencies, I assure you. Therefore, I try and bring a slightly different perspective to a young company with a highly experienced team who care about doing a great job for our clients. Main areas of business; Shop-in-Shop Display Concept Stores Design, Technical Development through to Implementation. Main clients - FitFlop, Samsung, Ecco, Cruyff Classics. From July 2010 to June 2011 (1 year) Bristol, United KingdomInternational Key Account Manager/Sales Consultant @ Senior Sales Consultant proven in the design, development, project management and implementation of Global and Pan-european roll-out programmes. International supply chain management (Far-East, Eastern Europe, Western Europe) for Clients with significant retail presence throughout the world markets. Clients include; Adidas AG, HTC, BT, Samsung From September 2006 to December 2009 (3 years 4 months) Key Account Manager @ Key Account Management for large companies who print a lot, sell a lot and gave me plenty of challenges on a daily basis. I learnt everything there was to learn about print, media, POS, POP, retail marketing, campaign management, print supply chain management and customer service. From September 2003 to August 2006 (3 years) BA, Sports Science and Business Studies @ University of Winchester From 1999 to 2002 GCSE @ Poole Grammar School From 1993 to 1997 Canford Heath Middle School Steve Schofield is skilled in: Start-ups, Project Management, Team Leadership, Sales Process, Project Planning, Marketing Strategy, New Business Development, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, SEO, Digital Strategy, Product Development, Business Development, Account Management