What I enjoy most: a challenge.

In 10 words

I’m an all-round techie with 25 years’ industry experience.

In 50 words

I’ve developed 100+ games, 20+ apps, created animation, VFX and CTV apps for TV/web, built award-winning websites and was a software engineer for the BBC. I’ve also worked for leading online casinos, managing projects, building games and doing cybersecurity. I’m also a subject matter expert on Connected TV applications.

In 250 words

I’ve built many things for many clients over the last 2 decades. My broad skill-set helps me enhance creative concepts technically and solve technical problems creatively. A good example of this is the David Beckham Academy games site I created. I flew to Madrid, met Beckham and was given an open remit in how to shoot and create the games, because nothing like this had been done before. You can see more examples of my work here.

Aside from my designery side, I’m an advocate of ‘agile’ methodologies, having introduced lean/kanban into the workflow of the small video production team I worked with. I believe that optimisation means optimising communication between and within teams, to keep value flowing, not just optimising code.

I’m strong in both techie skills, such as testing, working with complex stacks and optimising UIs; and creative skills, such as interaction design concepts and animation. I sharpened these skills while working on the high performance UI for the resource constrained YouView TV Set Top Box platform. I am also a published researcher in the field of biomaterials. But I am NOT the same guy who wrote the movie Skyline.

I set up this website about two decades ago, to host my games and other personal projects. And, although initially just a portfolio site, it turned into a very popular little games portal for a while – until I ran out of bandwidth. I still host some of my old games, some of which date back to 1999.

My interests

I’m a keen musician and enjoy traveling, picking up bits of foreign languages, eating new things and meeting new people. I’m a life-long learner, do boxing / MMA, play badminton sometimes and used to perform stand-up comedy.

You can contact me here.