Steven McLinden
Retired Senior Fire and Rescue Officer
Steve is a recently retired professional firefighter with over 33 years operational experience and was responsible for delivery of the ‘Transformation2020 Digitisation (T20)’ programme within Mid and West Wales Fire & Rescue Service.
He has headed up several departments within the service and also spent 2 ½ years seconded to the Welsh Government as Assistant Fire and Rescue Advisor for Wales where he developed the National Fire and Rescue Framework; The Guiding Principles for Dwelling Fire Response and the Operational Assurance of Service Delivery processes.
In 2016 Steve set up the services Air Support Unit and led the project to introduce Drones into the Service.
Steve’s new role is as an innovation consultant with tech start-up Unblur where he is supporting the development and integration of the IRIS Core Incident Management and Situational Awareness platform within UK fire and rescue services and wider first responder community.