Stephen Freeman

Current

Principal at M3P Limited
Contributor at The Codehaus

Past

Agile Coach at Sky Network Services (via M3P)
Technical Lead at BNPParibas (via M3P)
Consultant at Thoughtworks

Development Lead at Lombard Risk Systems
Senior Developer at Object Technology International
Researcher at Xerox Research Centre Europe
Programmer at Digital Equipment Corporation

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Education

University of Cambridge
Manhattan School of Music

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Stephen Freeman’s Summary

I'm an independent consultant, specialising in Agile development. My skills include coaching teams and individuals, development, design, requirements, and whatever else works to make people write better software.

I've worked in all sorts of environments, from research, to shrink-wrap, to bespoke, to in-house.

I also work on open source software, speak at conferences, and teach at University College London.

Stephen Freeman’s Specialties:

Agile Development: team coaching and improvement.
Software design and delivery.
Project start-up

Stephen Freeman’s Experience

Principal

M3P Limited

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)
Contributor

The Codehaus

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)

Contributing partner to the jMock project, a tookit to help developers test and write better software.
Agile Coach

Sky Network Services (via M3P)

(Public Company; Myself Only; Telecommunications industry)

April 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 1 month)

I came in originally to help the team with their planning process. I ended up staying and working on testing and general delivery.
Technical Lead

BNPParibas (via M3P)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Investment Banking industry)

December 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 1 month)

I was technical lead on Sierra, a next-generation central repository for Global Bond Static Data in BNP PARIBAS, replacing existing systems. Sierra captures data from multiple internal and external systems such as Bloomberg to feed downstream trading applications and systems.
We ran the project using eXtreme Programming and delivered into production early with no significant bugs.
Consultant

Thoughtworks

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year)

Coaching teams and individuals, development, design, requirements, and whatever else works to make people write better software.
Development Lead

Lombard Risk Systems

(Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Senior Developer

Object Technology International

(Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Researcher

Xerox Research Centre Europe

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Programmer

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

1994 — 1994 (less than a year)

Student intern, then Programmer at the Systems Research Center