I work as both a contract software developer/I.T. consultant, and a technical writer. I've been doing the software work since 1986, with everything from 1996 onwards on a contract/consultancy basis. Since being in Perth I've made a living from small amounts of consultancy together with a number of technical articles sold to the free software related media.

I'm currently Technical Director of the startup business Tina and I have developed, Core Minutes. Although this is currently a fulltime job, my intention is to make it 'run itself' such that I can take on interesting bits of contract work as they come up.

I hold a first class bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and have over 15 years experience in software development. My main skills are UNIX/C, scripting (Perl, Tcl, PHP), networks and Linux. I have experience with other free software and open standards technologies, including XML, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Qt, and so on. I am very interested in security issues, both from the network point of view and the secure coding point of view. I have experience of peneration testing in the real world. I'd be interested in any work that utilises these skills and technologies

As far as contract work goes, my current status is : Working with Tina on our startup business, Core Minutes. I'm still interested to hear about any opportunities around the Southampton area.

You can see my CV here, and details of my published writing here.