IT MEGAMEET - Key Persons
Adam has an 8 year track record delivering innovative, commercially successful, user experience projects both agency and client side. He has designed online products for major brands across a variety of industries. He's also working on a few products of his own using the Lean Startup methodology. When he's not making sites, apps and technology useful for non geeks, he enjoys cooking, eating (both out in the many wonderful restaurants Bristol has to offer and stuff cooked by foodie mates) and travelling the world in search of adventure with a heavy metal soundtrack.
Andrew Ford is an author and software engineer with thirty years of Unix/Linux experience. He is currently working on hosted email services. Before that he worked as an independent software consultant in Great Britain and Germany. Andrew has written four books, including the "Apache 2 Pocket Reference", and is currently writing a new one: "The RPM Handbook"
Dan has worked on tool-chain software for parallel and multi-core systems for the last 14 years. His early career was spent developing a tool-chain for a massively multi-core system-on-chip. He was an official port maintainer for GCC, and technical lead for a multi-core debugger. Dan now works as a System Architect for a wireless infrastructure company where he develops tools for modelling small-cell base stations.
Duncan (aka mrdnk) has been writing node.js application since before the hipsters, and spends his working days as a Senior Developer writing .NET clinical web applications for the NHS, mentoring developers and trying to get node adopted. Co-organiser of BristolWebFolk, regular attendee at BristolHackNight and programs his Nodecopter (AR drone) to fly around his flat when he's bored.
Ewan Milne has been involved in software development for over twenty years, and has been lucky in being a member of ACCU for most of them. He is a former Chair of both ACCU and it's annual conference, and currently organises the Bristol & Bath local group. He is a developer, architect, project manager, Scrum master and probably a few other roles at a Bath-based software services company.
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Completed an MSc (merit) Software Development (IT) degree. Use Java, Python, MySQL. Enthusiasm and experience in Usability/UX/Expert & User-based Evaluations including Cooperative Evaluations. Completed research in Persuasive Design as well as usability for older adults working as a UWE intern on the MOBISERV Project. Co-run SWUX (South West Usability Discussion Group). Love everything creative and when I'm not in front of a computer, I can be found at my allotment growing tasty things.
Paul has been an active Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) since 2006, and also became only the fourth UK-based Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) in 2011. He is the founder of Agilify, a company which provides both agile training and coaching services to individuals and companies across the UK and Europe. Paul restarted the Bath Scrum User Group in 2012 which has since grown rapidly in the past 12 months, now passing over 200 members.
Rich Higgs originally graudated in fine arts graduate. During his degree he became interested in digital technologies, leading to employment in web development, building sites for major companies and celebrities. Following a serious accident in 2001, Rich was unable to work for over a year and decided with a few colleagues to found Bristol Wireless in the Easton area of Bristol in 2002 with the aim of helping to combat digital exclusion. Since then Rich has continued to be a prominent member of the Bristol Wireless co-operative at all levels of its activity.
Sean Robbins is a software tester, occasional Scrum Master and intellectual critic of all things. He currently works hard to make Brightpearl's commerce acceleration platform ever more awesome - by breaking it as much as he can, faster than their users can.