About

An experienced software engineering leader with a passion for people development, building teams, using agile methodologies, and focusing on flow and delivery. A broad history of working with various programming languages and software tools. Has led multiple teams in fast-paced and regulated environments, implementing agile approaches and reducing cycle times significantly.

Has a track record of increasing team morale and motivation through a holistic people-first leadership style, recruitment, and introducing new ways of working. Has also developed strategies, technical roadmaps, architectural reviews, personal development frameworks, and addressing technical debt.

Holds an HND in Business Information Systems and an HNC in Business Information Technology in Computing from Solent University. Was one of two people in his year to study French and Spanish at GCSE.

Consumes an unhealthy amount of football and is subscribed to over 215 podcasts, please recommend one.

Colophon

Hosted on GitHub Pages, the site uses Jekyll, a static site generator, on Ruby. DNS and SSL by Cloudflare. It also uses GitHub actions, GitHub issues, and some Python for automation. Content is written in GitHub flavoured Markdown. Data is stored in Yaml files.

It is called “weak notes” as a play on words of the popular Government “week notes” blogging style - due to the likelihood, posting will be inconsistent and irregular, and having worked adjacent to Government for 14 years.

The font-family utilises the user’s operating system setting via the -system-ui declaration, Gill Sans if available, and as a last resort falls back to sans-serif. The primary colour scheme is White Smoke as the background, Night for text, Brunswick Green for links, Lapis Lazuli for some additional/secondary text e.g., post meta data and sub headings, and finally Citron is used for accents e.g., borders, separators, quote bars, and whimsy.

At the time of checking the site has valid HTML and valid CSS. Lighthouse scores are 100% across the board.

In The Press

During an era of running a successful football analytics website I had work published on the Chelsea FC website, FourFourTwo magazine, Man City’s match day programme, the Daily Mail, the Independent and various club fan sites including Crystal Palace, Walsall, Swansea snd Man City.

The associated Twitter account, active from 2010 to 2018, peaked at 185,000 followers with a monthly reach of 8 million users worldwide all through organic growth and received acclaim from Opta Sports, Chelsea FC, BBC and ofher businesses. The account was closed due to twiiter’s new ownership. whilst noting footbal statistics had become more mainstream and access to data was less readily available.

Now

based on the “now” page idea from Derek Sivers.

• Surviving. I continue to fight with an undiagnosed fatigue that’s been ongoing since October 2022
• Reading kindle books - I have a huge backlog to get through
• Household improvements - a heat pump, new carpets, doors and a new kitchen are all on the cards for 2025.
• Gardening - tending to the veggie patch and planters.