Tim Stephenson Link to heading

077988 67607 tim@knowprocess.com Link to heading

  • An experienced engineering-focused consultant and leader.
  • Architected new products as well as collaborative working on systems of systems.
  • End-to-end project management with high profile clients including publishing, UK government and NHS.

Education: 2:1 Master of Engineering (Hons) from University of Manchester 1993-1997

Work Experience: Link to heading

Mar 2022 - present: Elsevier Link to heading

As part of the Platform Operations team, we took an early prototype ‘platform’ to a point of maturity. Targetted with onboarding two thirds of circa 250 Kubernetes clusters to harmonise ways of working and drive cost savings.

Feb 2013 - Mar 2022: KnowProcess (Freelance) Link to heading

Business automation and digital transformation consulting. Implementation of BPMN and DMN based software services. Highlighted projects below:

2019-2021 Several Government departments Link to heading

  • Requirements gathering, modeling and service design to the Government Digital Service (GDS)’s Service Standard.
  • Initial training of the architecture team and ongoing consultancy.
  • Subject matter expert in business process automation.
  • Security Cleared (SC) role.

2015-2022 Sustainable Reporting Portal (SRP) for Greener NHS: https://srp.digital/ Link to heading

Bid for, delivered and operated the Carbon and other reporting system for NHS England over a number of years. Responsible personally for the architecture, outsourced delivery and customer management throughout the project. Initial development was about a year with ongoing hosting and approx. 3 months enhancements and bug fixes per year. Initially a monolithic architecture on a VPS this migrated to microservices to be more resilient and cloud native whilst maintaining the service availability.

  • SaaS offering to SMEs
  • Software as a Service offering lightweight CRM and workflow

2013-2016 Climate KIC (start-up incubator at Imperial College) Link to heading

A software start-up for tracking and managing down carbon emissions. Ultimately transitioned to the SRP project work above.

Feb 2012 - Jan 2013: Lead Architect, Helveta Link to heading

  • Reporting to company board, responsible for design and delivery of next generation sustainable supply tracking product for timber industry.
  • Initiated new product development team (offshore) and establishment of agile development practices.
  • Mentoring to team leads on technology issues including hands-on, whiteboard activities and everything in between.

Dec 2010 - Feb 2012: Technical founder, pailz.com Link to heading

  • A startup Team Collaboration SaaS.
  • Design and implementation. Front end in Python (Django), back end in Java both hosted on Google App Engine/
  • Participant and editor on Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)’s Business Process Simulation standard.

Jan 2004 - Nov 2010: Engineering Director, TIBCO Software Inc. (previously Staffware) Link to heading

  • Reported to VP of Business Process Management engineering team with frequent interaction with other engineering and marketing managers at SVP, VP and Director level.
  • Managed off-shore staff in 3 continents at the same time.
  • Driving force behind the award winning TIBCO Business Studio modelling environment from conception to v3, which, to quote a customer is “revolutionising what we can achieve with BPM”
  • Regularly asked to speak to internal and customer audiences (2-200 people) on the BPM vision and how Studio facilitates it.
  • Championed an Agile development culture of shared responsibility and continuous process improvement and test-driven development.
  • Lead the team through two major transitions, mentoring each individual, especially the promotion of two into team leaders as the team grew.
  • Product visions and roadmaps, requirements specifications, user guides and training materials.
  • Responsible for all aspects of delivery of the vision for a BPM-SOA enabled solution for the Insurance market with the goal of an order of magnitude increase in deal size.
  • Hired and formed a new delivery team to build out the solution.

Previously Link to heading

Jun 2003 - Dec 2003: Consultant at Hummingbird, UK Oct 2001 - Mar 2003: Technical Specialist with Technology One, Australia Oct 1998 - July 2001: Principal Consultant with Sybase Professional Services, UK Aug 1997 - Oct 1998: Analyst / Developer with Admiral Computing, now LogicaCMG