13 years' commercial experience in design, development, management and maintenance of sites, services and systems.
My approach is pragmatic - I try to focus on delivering the product rather than the project.
Industries I've served include retail, legal, finance, telecoms and media within corporate, small business and non-profit environments.
As part of my membership of the British Computer Society (MBCS), I was a Systems Developer of the Year finalist at the 2008 UK IT Industry Awards.
A full listing of experience, education and skills is available in my CV.
Java has paid the bills for at least 10 years and will continue to as long as I can harness the flexibility of Dependency Injection via Spring. I'm a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP).
I depend on Python for data processing and task automation, especially if it means using Regular Expressions.
I contribute to a handful of Node.js friendly server-side JavaScript open source projects.
As a member of Nominet I register UK domain names and sell some of them via Sedo .
If you're interested in a joint venture using the.co.uk, huge.co.uk or any other domain I own, please get in contact.
I've worked with, met and would like to meet many interesting people.
I'll read anything that Christopher Alexander, Jakob Nielsen, Richard Layard or Chuck Palahniuk write.
I occasionally use my vinyl collection and Technics 1210s to create deep house mixes, and even more occasionally compose music.
To prevent the things I own owning me, I sell books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records and many other things I no longer need.
