mostly Retired
In the summer of 2025, at the grand old age of 55, I decided to do something different, and I retired (mostly). I had been working at Multithread since 1999, leading the technical work there, before becoming Managing Director in 2021.
I'm enjoying spending more time with family and friends, walking our dog Ziggy, and taking time to enjoy life.
I learnt a lot through the Help to Grow scheme for businesses, and over the last year I have started helping by mentoring business leaders who are on the course.
I'm also still available for business and technical consultancy on an ad-hoc project basis, so if you are look for that please get in touch.
Career History
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2021-2025 Multithread Consultants - Managing Director
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2014-2021 Multithread Consultants - CTO
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1999-2014 Multithread Consultants - Technical Consultant
- NHS UK - network infrastructure
- SMTP Mail Relays - exim
- DNS - BIND
- Firewalls - Checkpoint
- monitoring - mrtg, rrdtool, netsaint, nagios,
- linitx.com - 2003 onwards
- Linux management
- LAMP
- oscommerce
- payment gateway integration
- business process development
- Consultancy
- Linux systems
- Network design
- Mikrotik RouterOS
- Firewalling
- DNS
- NHS UK - network infrastructure
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1997-1999 BT Martlesham Heath - Senior Software developer
- Process implementations - Oracle Workflow
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1992-1997 BT Martlesham Heath - Software developer
- C++
- DCE
- Rapid Application Development/Prototyping
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1988-1992 University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
- MEng Microelectronics and Software Engineering