I love, and live, tech.
My background is in brand and digital design, and for several years I built up and managed a design agency in London, which was great as I got to use my crayons a lot.
These days, I'm a consultant with a dual focus: first on business marketing and branding; and additionally consulting on technology and how it can improve the way that we as individuals, and we as organisations, work. I also have a keen personal interest in how technology can be used to solve broader social and even geopolitical problems; if you have any thoughts on that front, let's have a beer and chew the cud - you never know, we may just make the world a better place.
As for my tech history, it's fair to say that I'm a Microsoft fan, but not a Microsoft fanboy - my tech world is filled with MS gear (from the HP Touchsmart and twin-display HP Pavilion Elite desktop, to my two Windows 7 notebooks (HP Pavilion for lounging on the couch, and Sony Vaio TT for travel) to my HP Home Server, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone), but I'm not oblivious to all that Microsoft gets wrong (and boy, what a list that is), nor to all that Google, Apple and others get right.
Big fan of Apple industrial design; I was rather excited too by what HP was doing with webOS until they brutally murdered it; and everything that Google does I love and fear in equal measure.
Big sci-fi fan as well (BSG/Trek run through my veins), and I love a good cup of tea. More than anything though, I love things with buttons, screens, switches, lights and toggles. I love tech.
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