About Me
It’s long overdue really, especially given that I find such pages quite useful when I happen upon other blogs, so I figured it was time to add some “About me” info to McFilter.
I live in Cambridge, England and write software for a living. I moved down here from the North-West to be one of the first few employees of a startup called STNC - we were first to put a web browser onto a mobile phone. I played a pretty big role in the success of the company, initially as a software engineer, then with some project management and finally as software manager in charge of the entire engineering force.
When we were acquired by Microsoft, I wanted to get back to some coding, and so led the team writing the TCP/IP stack which has shipped on an assortment of devices including the Sony Z5 and the Amstrad em@ilers.
In early 2001 I left Microsoft, and since then have been working for myself - some of the time doing contract work, and some of the time developing my own products. I’m always interested in projects/consulting/software ideas/work related to things I’m interested in, which includes…
- Web apps
- Blogging
- Embedded/mobile development
- Home networking
- Ubiquitous computing
- Music
- Project management or just management, particularly in small tech companies
Outside of work (and the geeky computer stuff) I seem to spend quite a bit of time playing football (that’s proper football, not that American version ;-). I also do a fair bit of cycling and like to go for a wander up some mountains from time to time (although that’s easier said than done when you live in East Anglia!).
I’m also quite into my cars and listening to music. Not always at the same time, but I can listen to anything from my entire CD collection (as mp3s) at any time when I’m in the car - which is a bit more impressive when you know that at the last check it would take more than three weeks of non-stop listening to listen to all my CDs…