last updated: September 2011

I live and work in Camden Town, London.  In April 2011 I set up a small business called Long White Digital, which specialises in website design for ethical organisations.

This past couple of years (2010/11)

2010 was the first time I started a year as a bone fide freelancer, having left my comforable employment at Futurelab in the summer. Notwithstanding a few ups and downs it was a gamble that paid off spectacularly well. By the end of the year I had enough work to set up a limited company and start bring in others to work with me on projects.

In January 2011 I left Bristol bound for London (though not before a six-week jaunt around the southern hemisphere).

In the past 18 months I’ve achieved some of my lasting ambitions, which include:

• living in London
• completing an Olympic distance triathlon
• setting up a limited company
• singing with pro choirs in London
• music directing West Side Story

Amongst the websites I’m most proud of are Time for Climate Justice, End Tax Haven Secrecy, the Little Leaf Guesthouse. For my portfolio please see Long White Digital.

The Bristol years (2000-2010)

I have worked in web for over 8 years: 2 years freelance, 3 years doing strategy and development at Futurelab, 2.5 years as “Internet Officer” (developer, content manager) at UK Transplant and some time re-training and freelancing before that.

I moved to Bristol in late 2000 — originally just for a post-Uni ‘gap year’ — but stayed there for the whole decade. In those early days, armed only with a music degree and a bunch of naivety, I soon discovered I was unemployed and unemployable, and set about retraining myself in web and IT.

Before arriving firmly at a career in web design, 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 a trashy comprehensive in Berkshire whose name escapes me.

Memories of my teens are almost exclusively musical; singing with Berkshire Youth Choir – from which I still have dozens of close friends — week-long trips to beautiful cathedrals with my church choir, playing piano daily, composing ostentatiously large works for my age (still got the orchestral manuscript for my piano concerto!!), learning noodly guitar solos, aspiring to be a rock star, and avoiding the dancefloor like the plague.

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.