About me

The important stuff

Photography

View the world through a lens, and create a visual diary of your experience. I am passionate about photography, and am seldom seeing without a camera in my hand.

Blogging

I started my blog in 2005, and over the years it has grown into an online photo-journal of my life and experiences. You will get a glimpse of myself, my experiences, and my travel.

I am a WordPress fanatic, and love to use that amazing platform.

Speaking

I have been an active member of Toastmasters for over 10 years, and I believe that everybody should have a voice.

IT

I have been programming since 1984, and have programmed in most languages. I work as an IT and web consultant.

Some more details…

IT and Technical

Used VI, one of the best and strangest text editors in the world
Hand-coded HTML and CSS
Written more lines of code than I care to remember
Host approximately 50 client web sites, most of which I developed as well
Wrote my first program in 1984
Learned about OOP in C++, loved it in Delphi, discovered that it is not-existent in VB, and found it again in C#
Designed a real-time telephony call processing architecture in SDL; a forerunner of UML
Helped companies by solving technical problems, writing better code, and designing better systems
Written software to allow the mainframes and PC platforms to speak the same language (of course XML)
Project managed the redevelopment of the Woolworths.co.za retail website
Designed call-center software for a 500+ seat call center (including credit and store card system integration)
Written software for insurance, retail, manufacturing, shipping, banking, securities, professional speakers, NPO’s, SMME’s and individual people
Hand-coded RS232 and RS485 Com port drivers (in the olden days)
Implemented wireless warehousing scanning directly into SAP processing (in the mid 1990′s)

Education

I have got two degrees: BSc.Eng.Elec (UCT) and BSc.Hons.IS (UNISA)
Diploma in Coaching
Diploma in Professional Photography
Distinguished Toastmaster

Music

A song of mine has been used as the theme tune for a show on National Public Radio (USA)
Played bass on a song that was the top downloaded song for a week in South Africa
Being played on national South African radio
Play about 7 musical instruments to varying degrees, including the bagpipes, saxophone and bass guitar
You can download some of my music from the past and from the distant past