Steve Holyer has been building successful software projects since the 1990's always approaching Scrum and moving away from "Scrum butt" in successive iterations of his career. He is now an enthusiastic advocate of the benefits of full Scrum.

Steve joined the on-line travel giant Travelocity.com in 1997 and worked as a developer on most aspects of the Internet booking portal. This brought him to Switzerland (from Dallas Texas) after Travelocityʼs parent company, Sabre, spun off the technology into a new Java enterprise system to drive airline booking websites; Swissair was the reference customer.  The software he developed drove Swissair.com as well as Sabena.com and Qualiflyer.com.  Steve moved to Switzerland in 2001 to continue working with the e-commerce group of Swissairʼs IT company Atraxis which was taken over by EDS after the so-called “Grounding” in late 2001.

In 2004 Steve joined UBS Investment Bank developing web services for derivative and structured product trading.  He also managed the complete collaborative-style release cycle for four releases of UBSʼ FX Trader tool.

Since 2008 has has been doing freelance JAVA and PHP development and consulting to startups for content management systems and social media. Since April 2010, Steve has been working on the browser based user interface of the Legando banking core system built using AJAX and gwt. In the  same timeframe he's been dabbling with iPhone and iPad application development.

Between 1990 and 1997, Steve worked in the radio paging industry developing standards, software and servers to link the emerging Web to wireless data/radio paging. He built a network router to enable and drive wireless data to hand held units such as the Apple Newton PDA for American national carrier MobileComm.

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