- Born (4/6/66) Knaresborough (a cute tourist trap near Harrogate), North Yorkshire, England.
- Degree (84-87) in Biology from Bangor University.
- PhD (87-91), Open University.
- Post-doctoral Research (91-94), St. George’s Hospital Medical School.
- More research (94-97) at The Dept. of Human Anatomy, Oxford University (Voxel Man and related anatomical technology)
- Departmental Lecturer (97-98) at The Dept. of Human Anatomy, and St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University.
- 1998-2007 – Web Manager / Interactive Media Manager Natural History Museum, London, UK.
- 2007-2013 – Online/Digital Architect, Which?, London, UK.
- 2013-2016 – Web architect, Travelodge Hotels, Oxfordshire.
- Feb 2016 – present Research Director, Gartner.
During my last academic job I ran a unix server as the web blossomed. I developed an Intranet for medical students and the Department’s first website (available in the WayBack Machine)
Over 9 years at the NHM I managed the entire gamut of online projects, from back-end CRM integration projects, through web visualisation and web databases, full lifecycle site redesigns, to integrated retail and ticketing ecommerce solutions and gallery kiosk-online integration. Also coordinated a national conference, UK Museums on the Web.
Then involved in enterprise level projects, programming and strategy; large scale web content management, novel ecommerce models, subscription-based online publishing, enterprise architecture, web platform standards, analytics and performance, devops and continuous delivery, cloud, containers and microservices.
Now an industry analyst on Digital Commerce tech: solutions and architectures.
