The Story So Far

25 years making and designing products. Sometimes mentoring, consulting, advising... always building.

1999

Self-taught when quirks-mode was still a thing

In a world where rounding corners and using custom fonts was a creative battle with poorly implemented rendering engines. Every pixel was a negotiation.

2001

Sold first website

It was bad, but it worked in IE5. That's an achievement worth mentioning.

2005

Full Stack Engineer

Zone1Media

Building bespoke CMS and e-commerce solutions for local businesses.

2008

Digital Director / Lead Frontend Engineer

Whitespace

Leading frontend engineering and digital design efforts for clients like the Scottish Government, NHS, and AB InBev.

2011

Creative Technologist

Made by Many

Riding the nascent Product and Agile waves, working on innovative projects for Microsoft, ITV, and TED Global.

2013

Advisor & Maker

Good for Nothing

Advising and building; helping socially-minded startups do good things with good people.

2014

Head of Product

FutureGov

Leading product strategy and design for our suite of social care and local authority products in the UK and Australia.

2015

Independent Product & Design Engineer

Building products for Rough Trade, Action for Children, and the European Commission.

2019

Builder, Advisor, Mentor

Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology

Long acronym this one: The Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology. Designing and running hands-on digital accelerators.

2021

Product, Design & Engineering Lead

Law Centres Network

Led initiatives to modernise services by developing a unified digital framework, multiple digital products, and a consistent design system.

2022

Principal Product and Design Engineer

LloydsDirect / Pharmacy2U

Setting standards and shaping process while building better healthcare experiences.

2025

Independent Product & Design Engineering

The industry is changing rapidly. Freelancing and learning new things for the new world as AI takes over.