Although a little short for a Stormtrooper, Sam Barnes is the Development Team Manager at Global Personals and primarily works on the company’s multi-award winning platform White Label Dating™ - a platform that powers over 10,000 international online dating sites for 20 million members with a new member joining every 3 seconds.

After receiving his BA in Web and e-Business Computing, Sam spent 2 years as a front-end developer before moving into web project management at various digital agencies in the UK. Over the following years Sam delivered web projects of all sizes for clients including Nokia, Dell, Zebra, BBC and Oracle before his 2 years as a Web Project Manager at Global Personals.

Sam is a Certified Scrum Product Owner, has written for Smashing Magazine, Think Vitamin and is due to be published this year in the Gower Handbook of People in Project Management. He can also be found posting articles at thesambarnes.com, a blog dedicated to the topic of web project management.