six to start

We celebrated Kass’s birthday this week, but we haven’t really properly introduced her to anyone yet. Here she is:

Kass Schmitt joined Six to Start in February 2008 after nearly fiveyears at the BBC doing things like nursing Celebdaq, engineering elusive pop sensation Jamie Kane and rescuing Leeds from forecasts of 188°C at the Weather Centre. Kass is a technical project manager at Six to Start which means that she spends most of her time figuring out how to deliver amazing things on time and under budget or, when no one’s looking, reminiscing about life on the high seas. Kass can currently be found at her desk practicing knots.

Kass, our new technical project manager, joined Six to Start earlier this month from the Beeb, where she was a senior developer at the Weather Centre, but more interestingly to us, used to work at Interactive Drama and Entertainment - where she was a senior software engineer on Jamie Kane. That’s fantastic for us, because if there’s one thing we (I mean Adrian) like to do, it’s force our engineers to accomplish at least seven hitherto impossible things on an even more impossible timeline before breakfast, and having a cracking TPM is one part of making that happen.

Anyway, it was Kass’s birthday this week, and you have no idea how hard it is trying to find a birthday cake this close to Mother’s Day.