All around technical enthusiast. I have been involved in a large range of technical pursuits from special effects in motion pictures to network infrastructure design for post graduate research laboratories. I started programming in BASIC with a Texas Instruments 99/4A 16bit home computer many years ago and have since designed and built applications in Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Java, SmallTalk, FORTRAN, Apollo Pascal, C#, Perl and PHP.
I have also got a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering as a Naval Architect and spent a very enjoyable few years researching the behavior of commercial vessels in heavy seas and testing out innovative concepts in roll stabilization. Spinning off of this I ...