I come from Baughurst near Tadley, a small town just south of the HampshireBerkshire border. I went to Burnham Copse Infant School, Burnham Copse Junior School and the Hurst Community School. From there I went to Queen Marys College, in Basingstoke then to the University of Warwick were I studied Computer Science for three years. Before I went to university I was offered a summer job at Grapevine Information Services sadly now defunct which I took. I worked there every holiday from summer 1995 to summer 1998. The job mainly involved writing software and technical support In September 1998 I started working full time at John Clarke Computing, also known as Saturn Network Services, at Calleva Park Industrial Estate, as a Junior Analyst Programmer, then a ProgrammerAnalyst. I continued working there after the company was taken over by Ramesys, in September 2000, until I was made redundant in October 2001 following the partial collapse of the travel industry after 11th September 2001. In August 2002 I started working as a Web Programmer for Taylor & Francis, a large publishing company with bases located around the world including London, Basingstoke and New York. In 2004 we merged with Informa, became T&F Informa for a while but are now back to being informa again.

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