Capturing The Geek

About Me

Sunday 25 October 2009 at 5:02 pm.

Often described as the Jekyll and Hyde of the IT and photographic industry I juggle an exciting career as a .NET Architect with a passion for photography. Married to my lovely wife Caroline I currently live in Canterbury surrounded by the lovely Kentish countryside.

Little history

My interest in computing stretches back to the age of seven thanks to my father Brian, who was not only a keen photographer himself but also a computer teacher at the local secondary school.

Progressing from a ZX81 through the world of the BBC Micro to my first AST computer I first began developing applications at the age of fifteen, largely for the then vibrant Bulletin Board System community. Written in TopSpeed C I released software as freeware and shareware; most notable of these being “Node Manager”, an application to manage multi-node bulletin board systems.

Here & now

In the last five years I’ve worked mainly as a freelance consultant and contractor on large-scale enterprise systems specialising in migrating existing requirements from older technologies to leverage the extensibility and scalability of a .NET platform. Most recently I joined Advanced Health & Care Ltd as Development Manager responsible for development and release of software by the Ashford-based team.

A fan of OSS (Open Source Software) I often incorporate technologies such as FubuMVC, StrutureMap, and NHibernate whilst adopting a DDD (Domain Driven Design) approach. I am a firm advocate of agile methodologies such as Scrum, and always adopt a TDD (Test Driven Development) approach to programming.

Any questions?

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me, I can be found in many on-line guises outlined here.