About me

I was born a week before Christmas at the end of the 1970s and have no middle name. I was not christened, nor baptised and consider myself an immovable atheist. I do not have any tattoos and have yet to get anything pierced.

My life has been spent thus far in the fair county of Essex, United Kingdom. My early years were spent tolerating school and slowly killing a 48k ZX Spectrum through overuse.

To this day my keenest interest is in software development though photography, cinema, Formula 1 motor racing, and getting up to mischief occupy a lot of my time. The older I get the gentler my taste in music seems to become. I have little time for television.

This site will laregly focus on computing and photography though I hope you'll forgive occasional sojourns in to other spheres.

I find it hard to take anything seriously.

 

Curriculum Vitae

BSc. Hons. Computer Software Development, 2:1
Anglia Ruskin University, 2005

Undergraduate Diploma in Computing
Kellogg College, Oxford, 2002

Extensive working knowledge of:

• (X)HTML & CSS
• XML/XSLT
• SQL
• PHP
• Javascript
• JQuery
• Object Orientation & MVC methodologies
• System architecture & design
• JSON & RSS
• E-Commerce
• Online security
• Apache
• Adobe Photoshop
• Photography

Hands on, though limited experience of:

• Good knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, Flash & AfterEffects
• IIS
• Linux/Unix administration
• Java
• SQLite
• and other proprietary technologies