Employment

I currently work at RBS where I’m an Architect in the High Performance Computing team specialising in distributed caching, in particular Oracle Coherence. This has been a great role and I’ve particularly enjoyed the wide variety of problems posed by the different teams I interact with. The only downside has been being a one-man-band: I miss having a team.

Previously I was at Thoughtworks where I did the whole Agile thing.  It was a great experience working for this truly unique company for whom I have a deep affection.

Before moving to consultancy I worked for Barclays Capital for seven or so years. I like to think of this as my apprenticeship. Barcap is not the easiest place to work in may ways but  the environment was very formative. I was lucky to meet some very smart people and get some great opportunities. It was fun.

Academics

I graduated with distinction from a part time MSc in Information Systems and have a previous Masters in Physics from Imperial College where I also won the Rectors prize for Public Speaking (View Presentation Animation), something I was very proud of at the time. My MSc project involved the development of a framework for experimenting with software evolution and lead to the bellow publications:

Interests

I’m a keen snowboarder, surfer, downhill mountain biker and enjoy a boogie if I can find anyone that can dance West Coast Swing.

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