A technologist with over 30 years of computing experience. A track record of spotting emergent trends and leading companies towards the next big thing. A regular speaker at conferences and participant at international standards bodies.
Developing a collaboration Web site for electronic design. Compère of OSHUG, a monthly open source hardware group meetup in London.
Tasked with “demonstrating the value of innovation at the edge of the network”. Led events, hothouses and hackdays, mentored developers, built collaboration systems and prototypes with customers across and outside of the company. Contributed to TiddlyWiki. Served as BT's W3C Advisory Committee representative.
Governed the exposure of Web services defining policy for the publication and consumption of Web services across BT. Member of the Web21C leadership team managing a product to present telephony services on the Web. Participated at the W3C, WS-I and OASIS, chairing the W3C XML Schema Patterns for Databinding working group and W3C Workshop on XML Schema User Experiences.
As a systems software developer, built a large number of cross-platform infrastructure products including high volume TCP/IP to SNA messaging gateways, a high-speed validating XML parser, MQSeries operation tools, and a reliable file transfer service which in 2001 transferred 90 gigabytes of billing data across 80 systems each night.
Developed document processing sytems, communications protocols and device drivers in C for a wide variety of Unix and embedded systems at a number of companies including Uniplex (Herts), BancTec (Stockholm), SWIFT (Brussels), ICL (Madrid), NCR (London), Thorn EMI Micrologic (Bedford), Grant Thornton (London), Hugin Sweda (Uxbridge) and Data Logic (London and Amsterdam).
BSc Hons, Computing and Data Processing with an industrial placement at ICI, Cheshire developing expert systems and statistical models in APL and Prolog.