About Me
My homeland, is Aoteoroa, New Zealand. The land of the long white cloud. I speak in a kiwi accent, however I live in a city covered in red bricks, street car tracks and an urban landscape. I'm surrounded by Canucks and properly call the place I live 'Tronno'. For my job, and my passion - I live and breath web development and technologies. I get overtly excited about having a webserver pull content from database servers and render it as fast as humanly possible. When I've calmed down from that, and want to balance things out - I get on my bike and ride, at breakneck speeds in the woods, down a mountain side, or in a pack of other cyclists raising money for kids cancer. When off the bike, I pull out my camera and take photos. In the downtime I'm either fixated behind Aperture tweaking said photos, often in conjunction with listening to some stream of bits passing through a D/A converter to a pair of rather nice headphones that tend to get Audiophile's all excited.
The Skinny..
work: Senior Director, Enterprise Development (North America) at Mosaic Sales Solutions
doing IT/Development for: 15 years
currently reside: Toronto, Canada
favourite technologies: typically anything open source. Have a slight bent towards Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL.
fascination with: delivering software. currently have one of the bigger Rails development teams in Toronto and pretty damn proud of them.
hack on: my iMac at home, or MacBookPro at work. Sublime 2 editor of choice.
can_code? and can_deploy?: yes. case in point - you're looking at a massively overengineered blog. it's running 2 app servers, Rails 3 blogging platform built by me, using a MongoDB replica set, loadbalanced on the front end, images distributed via a CDN. Put together in spare evenings over a couple of weeks.
notables: Some words I wrote in an email made it into the Facebook Cookbook. Way back when, was nominated for New Zealand's High Tech Young Achiever of the year.
want to know more? LinkedIn or Google+ or Resume
Bike Check
MTB: 2011 Trek Remedy 9.8 Carbon
Road: 2011 Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL3 'Cavendish Signature Series'
Camera Check
Body: Panasonic GH2, Micro Four Thirds
Favourite Lens: Panny 7-14mm Wideangle (dramatic landscapes..)
