Profile

Since graduating from University of Wales, Swansea in Electronics and Computer Science many years ago ;-), I have been working in IT mostly in the UK but also many parts of the world, including South Africa, Indonesia, Germany, several locations in the USA and Brazil.

I use to play soccer and cricket for my school and societies in University and I won a local tennis tournament in Cheltenham.  Try to keep fit.  My hobby is tinkering with tech, consulting about tech to friends and family, spending quality time driving around the beautiful English countryside in my soft top Mini and managing my own lifestyle property business.   A father to a crazy daughter also plays a big part in my life.

Since I was 12 years old, using my fist ever computer, Texas Instruments TI99, I have been writing software.  I love the fact that in hours I can write something that can entertain or help people in some ways. My first ever program was ‘Escape From a  Zombie Maze :-).    Today, computer systems touches every aspect of our lives and so being a software engineer, I relate easily to the use of technology in the things I do and use every day.  From the NHS website to TikTok, from online banking to Facebook, all are possible because of tech.

Lately I have been working with Artificial Intelligence although I developed an AI system ( Expert System in those days ) at University in the 1985.

I keep meeting schedules to the morning period.  Get them out of the way so that I can focus on development in the afternoon.  Meetings can happen with my team, with my manager, with customers, or with my office colleagues.

When I focus on developing software, I often would connect with my team maybe to ask questions, maybe to help them or they help me, or simply to chill out a bit and have fun.  We often use Google to help us find solutions that we get stuck on.  Google indeed is one of the best friends of a developer.