| 1962 |
Born in Colchester. Lived in Holland-on-Sea, Essex |
| 1967 - 74 |
School at Holland Park School |
| 1970 |
Family moved to Clacton |
| 1974 - 81 |
School at Clacton County High School |
| 1981 |
Moved to London (Finsbury Hall) |
| 1981/2 |
First year of Applied Physics course at City University |
| 1982 |
Moved to Hackney |
| 1982/3 |
Social secretary at City University Students' Union |
| 1984/8 |
Degree in Computer Studies at South Bank Poly |
| 1986 |
Moved to Earlsfield |
| 1986/7 |
Industrial placement from degree course. Working at IBM in Brentford. |
| 1987 |
Moved to Tooting |
| 1988 - 92 |
Worked at Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems |
| 1991 |
Moved to Balham |
| 1993 - 95 |
Worked for Buena Vista Home Video (Walt Disney) |
| 1995 - 2001 |
Worked for Magnum Solutions Ltd for various clients:
- Banque Paribas (1995)
- Nomura (1995/6)
- SBC Warburg (1996/8)
- CSFB (1998/9 and 2000)
- QXL (1999)
- Fidelity Investments (1999)
- Industrial Bank of Japan (1999/2000)
- Sportal (2000)
- Acxiom (2001)
- Alaris (2002)
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| 2001 |
Data Munging with Perl published |
| 2002 (jun - nov) |
Worked for Bibliotech (briefly before being made redundant) |
| 2003 - 2004 |
More work for Magnum Solutions
- AMP (2003)
- Guardian Unlimited (2003)
- Karma Music Group (2004)
|
| 2003 |
Perl Template Toolkit published |
| 2004 |
Outcome Technologies |
| 2005-Present | More work for Magnum Solutions
- Guardian Unlimited
- BBC New Media
- UBS
- LoveFilm
- Gumtree
- Moonfruit
- Net-A-Porter
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