Harvey Wheaton
My credentials
About
Harvey Wheaton has a passion for people and teams.. He has spent his career seeing first hand the highs and lows of software development – both as a software engineer and manager. He has worked in a diverse range of industries with a wide variety of both waterfall and Agile methodologies and he credits the experiences as giving him a strong perspective on the challenges faced by project teams and managers.
Aas well as serving as Chairman of the Board for Scrum Alliance, Harvey is currently an independent consultant providing coaching, training and support to a variety of organisations, mostly within the video games industry.
Harvey previously held a variety of senior roles in video games development, including Studio Director for Supermassive Games, Director of Product Development for Criterion Games and a variety of business operations and development management positions at Electronic Arts. Prior to working in the games industry, Harvey's career encompassed diverse roles in manufacturing, public sector, consulting and finance businesses.
Based near London, Harvey is a strong advocate for Agile and Scrum and has been at the forefront of applying and promoting Scrum within complex, highly creative environments for many years. Harvey’s passion for Scrum is driven by his determination to continually improve how projects are run to deliver predictability and quality whilst ensuring every member on the team actively participates and enjoys the experience.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2019-04-01 - present - Natural Motion Games Ltd (Head of Operations)
- 1994-09-05 - 1997-01-10 - Astra Zeneca/ICI Pharmaceuticals (Developer/Project Manager)
- 1994-03-07 - 1997-03-07 - The Logic Factory
- 1997-03-03 - 2000-02-04 - Cap Gemini (Consultant/Senior Consultant)
- 2000-02-07 - 2003-02-21 - JP Morgan (Scotland) Ltd (COO)
- 2003-03-03 - 2008-08-29 - Electronic Arts (Development Management)
- 2008-09-01 - 2013-12-11 - Supermassive Games Ltd (Studio General Manager)
- 2014-01-01 - 2015-09-04 - HWC (Director)
- 2014-01-01 - 2015-12-31 - Scrum Alliance (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
- 2015-09-04 - 2017-07-21 - CodeClan (DEO)
- 2017-07-31 - 2019-03-29 - Natural Motion Games Ltd (Executive Producer)