Stephen is a chartered engineer working at Thames Water, he leads the technical teams within operational technology. He has worked in various roles including architecture and network engineering at Thames Water for over 22 years. He is the technical lead of a range of research and development trials within the business including communication technologies such as NBIoT and IoT protocols such as MQTT. He has a particular technical strength of communication networks and connecting systems together to meet business requirements, whilst also able to bring teams together around a central vision.