Summary

In my career so far I have been a CTO, developer, sysadmin, dba(#oflastresort), team leader, pre-sales engineer, sole owner, partner, and product manager.

I've enjoyed parts of each of these roles but I get my greatest enjoyment from, and feel I deliver most significant value in, product & technical strategy and the nitty-gritty of actually developing great software.

I have gone through quite a few languages C, x86 assembler, C++, Perl, Java, Javascript, Smalltalk, Lisp, Ruby, Erlang, Objective-C, and Prolog. These days I mostly work in Ruby and Objective-C and dabble in some of the others. I enjoy the opportunity to do a project in a new(ish) language/framework.

What I hope you take away from this is that I am adaptable, a very fast-study, hands-on, and can do, thus far at least, whatever is required by the situation.

Experience

  1. 2011-2day: Co-Founder, SmartFish Software Ltd.
  2. 2007-2011: CTO & Ruby on Rails developer, reeplay.it
  3. 2007-2011: Mac OS X developer, LucidMac Software. (the name I was publishing Mac software under for a while)
  4. 2006-2007: Ruby on Rails developer, Cominded Ltd.
  5. 2004-2006: Product Manager, PAOGA Ltd.
  6. 2002-2004: Developer/Director, Novissio Ltd.
  7. 2001-2002: Pre-sales Tech, Hipbone Inc.
  8. 2000-2001: Team lead & Development manager, Metadyne Ltd.
  9. 1996-2000: Senior intranet developer, University of North London.

Qualifications

  1. 2006 - Pg. cert. - Psychology - London Metropolitan University.
  2. 1996 - Bsc. (hons) 1st Class - Computing & Mathematics - University of North London.
  3. 1996 - Winner of prize for best Undergraduate project.