About Me

Born on the Isle of Sheppey, raised in Southampton, studied in Bath and have now spent the last ten years in the Bristol.

Interests

I’m an active member of the Bristol Green Party and was their prospective councillor for Bishopston in the 2010 election and for Cotham in 2011. Currently the internal communications officer for the Bristol party.

Other interests include curating and organising art exhibitions through the Bristol Drawing School, and am studying creative writing with the Open University.

Fellow at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)

Patron of the Royal West of England Academy.

My C.V.

Education Computer Software Technology degree from Bath University

PenOp Ltd Company specialising in biometric signature technologies.
I was in charge of integrating technologies into a wide range of systems, also teaching and running seminars in the UK, USA, Singapore and Germany

Solsoft Ltd Web design company.
I managed the development team, learnt and used full range of web and networking technologies

Burning Bed Productions Ltd Set up own web technology company.This was conceived with £220 start up capital and produced a turnover of around £200k by year three before being approached by three companies to merge or buy. The strong technical but commercial team, a customer service driven business model and a substantial order book saw the company purchased by an independent telecommunications provider to utilise its technical and management skills in the rapidly expanding digital telephony industry

Switch Telecoms Worked for this telecommunications provider in capacity as technical director. Implemented web technology solutions to support telcoms infrastructure, such as call routing, statistics and billing.

Clay Mallet Ltd Currently providing web and business consultancy, web, database and desktop programming, on a freelance basis working closely with web design and marketing companies.

Bristol Drawing School Founder and director of this institution along with artistic director, Carol Peace.