Career

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.

Coding

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.

Domains

Nominet Member

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.

People

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.

Music

I occasionally use my vinyl collection and Technics 1210s to create deep house mixes, and even more occasionally compose music.

Selling

To prevent the things I own owning me, I sell books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records and many other things I no longer need.