Work

I am currently working for Testronic Labs as a performance engineer, project managing in the field of performance testing and application performance monitoring.

After graduating in 1996 from University of Wales, Swansea in Development Studies & Economics, trained as a journalist at De Montfort University under the NCTJ/PgDip scheme. Became increasingly involved with new media based projects since I had been using the Internet since 1993.

I have worked in a variety of technical support and project management positions within the IT/Internet sector for six years, largely in the hosting web development and online news environment.
I have an in-depth knowledge and project management experience from building the web hosting platforms for mission critical applications within the data centre environment at:

Globix UK Ltd (now part of TeleCityEurope) www.globix.com, IXEurope plc (now part of Equinix) www.ixeurope.com, Konnex New Media www.konnex.co.uk, Mirror Image Internet Inc www.mirror-image.com, Verisign UK www.verisign.com and Gomez Europe Ltd (now part of Compuware) www.gomez.com and now at Testronic Labs www.testroniclabs.com.

Worked in my spare time as producer for ACFTV (www.acftv.com), an international independent documentary film company. In 2004, was assistant producer on Jimmy Johnstone, Lord of the Wing, which aired on BBC Scotland.