Interests
Computing & IT
I now work as an IT Manager for a Nottingham based new media company MEDIAmaker Limited , looking after the internal IT estate and also three data centres around the country, with 20 web farms & sql servers to keep running, their ages range from 8 years old to 1 month.
We design cms driven web sites & ecommerce services for large clients such as Ace European Ltd, Boots, Eveden etc.
Our events and conferencing division also plan, organise and manage very large corporate conferences, some for over 3000 delegates, for clients such as Rolls Royce, Saint Gobain, Alliance Boots & Coors.
I qualified as an electrical engineer with the National Coal Board in the early 80's before taking an interest in computers, once using a Dragon 32 as a video source for Amateur fast scan TV on 70cms, using a birkitt kit transmitter, I tried my hand at programming, initially graphics packages and afterwards commercial library systems.
I later served my time as a computer hardware engineer, installing Novell and later Microsoft networks, and worked my way up to the Technical Director of Prima IT Solution Ltd and then NH North Ltd, an international training company with offices in Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds & Newcastle... that is until it went bust...
