last updated: September 2009

This past year (2009)

I live and work in Bristol. I left my comfortable job at Futurelab in May (on my 30th birthday!) to pursue contract and freelance web work and get involved in more music.

Since then, I have:

• Begun working freelance with Enable as a Web Producer
• Led two choir trips, one to Wells Cathedral and one to Truro Cathedral
• Put on a concert for my friend and local composer Ian Carpenter to celebrate his 40th birthday
• Resumed piano lessons
• Continued with my conducting course
• Been to three weddings (of a total of 7 this year)

The Bristol years (2000-2009)

I have worked in web for over 7 years: 3 years doing strategy and development at Futurelab, 2.5 years as “Internet Officer” (developer, content manager) at UK Transplant and some time freelancing before that.

I moved to Bristol in late 2000 — originally just for a post-Uni ‘gap year’ — and have stayed here ever since, simply because it is _SO COOL_. I quickly realised I was unemployed and unemployable, and set about retraining myself in web and IT, as well as doing as much singing at Bristol Cathedral as they would let me.

Before arriving firmly at a web career I temped for Lloyds TSB, Orange and others — which gave me a valuable grounding in my current career, but also — with the greatest respect — a good insight into exactly the sort of working environment I will try and avoid in the future.

The education years (90-97)

I studied Music at Exeter University (1997-2000), A levels at The Henley College and went to secondary school at some trashy comprehensive in Berkshire.

Highlights of the pre-university period were predominantly musical; winning Choir of the Year with Berkshire Youth Choir – from which I still have dozens of close friends – learning the piano, composing and aspiring to be a rock star. Not dancing though. Never dancing.

Life online

Still reading? That nearly qualifies you as a stalker =)

Well, you might as well know I also have a Twitter stream you can follow, a personal blog, a Facebook presence, an Amazon wishlist and finally a Lifestream mopping up all the other bits of my online life.