With over 25 years experience as a developer holding positions with Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Exxon, marchFIRST and Intergraph, I have been fortunate to work within in an industry I absolutely love..

I began my career in London and, like many people in IT at that time (well, old people) , I primarily worked on mainframe database design. Before moving into consultancy on database design and information security. In the latter half of the nineties I finally settled down with on-line application development and information architecture on the web, which involved far less pulling of cables under floorboards and less risk of electrocution.

Prior to the millennium, my primary focus was on Microsoft technologies (IIS / ASP / VB / .Net / SQL server). However for the last few years my attention has been steadily shifting more towards the open source end of the industry with languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby and LAMP Environments.

I am an ardent Linux user and in my spare I try to catch up on my reading, there's too many languages out there and not enough time to learn them all. I like to keep up with the latest trends and I am a constant “tweaker” of both hardware and software and love finding new uses for ‘obsolete’ technology.

In Oct 1999 I met my wife and moved from London to Atlanta where I currently live and work and continuously complain about the heat..