My computing history.

BBC Micro computer - my Primary School gets one - the first computer I have used

Age 9 : I become the IT 'monitor' for the school - exploring and setting things up for the teachers

8086 chip PC - High School would get me hands-on, and learning Turbo Pascal

Sixth Form project - a friend and I implemented an inventories database for our Health Authority!

CERN : 3rd year Physics research project used Fortran with remote data from the ALEPH particle detector

Postgraduate research included 'the Educational use of multi-media and internet-based information'

Mars Pathfinder : As a Physics teacher I would take all my pupils to use the live data from the Sojourner rover on Mars

HTML club - I would run after-school clubs on web development. We would build the school's first website. 

dotCom startup : Dendral - I switched professions, to become a fulltime developer - #2 in a VC backed neural-semantic net startup,  way ahead of it's time

CSW Healthcare : NPfIT - a small cog in one of the largest IT projects in UK history - the national data spine

XML Summer School - Jeff Barr would talk about Amazon's new S3 service -which would herald the start of AWS  

MSc in Information Technology ... while working on another side-project ;)

CSW : won British Computer Society’s SME Organisation of the year 2007. From a team 30 to 150 in 9 months.

ISO/BSi Technical Committee member for  IST41 - technical reviews of key standards ODF and OOXML.

Adobe : joined as Senior Technical Manager, would become manager responsible for Professional Services EMEA for the Scene7  product.

Conference speaking including Adobe Summit, Digital London, and Webinars
Followed by meetup talks and 'finding my voice'.

Amplience : Director of Professional Services, in this Amplified User Experience focused UK startup.

Amplience: became Director of Pre-Sales - as we achieved 425% growth over 3 years. ($37M series C)

Authored ‘Practical Responsive Images’, published by Five Simple Steps. Sold 1000+ copies release day.

Storyus : the family-friendly storytelling platform - I started building the ideal 'slow social' platform.
This timeline is part of it.

Cloudinary : Principal Solution Engineer : I joined this developer-first Dynamic Media platform, 500k+ users, 40 billion + assets

Aside from technical pre-sales, I would lead some of our Enterprise Training, present 'No Forking Way' at ImageCon (CA), contributing author for Web Almanac

Cloudinary : remarkable, with no VC funding, hits $100M ARR and $1 Billion valuation, Forbes cover story

▲ Vercel

First dedicated Sales Engineer, becoming Director, Sales Engineering with the  global team of 15 incredible SEs.

True hyper-growth: company size from from 40 to 430, 1000% ARR growth, over 2 years.

Through constant innovation by an incredible Engineering org. and very strong PMF, Vercel announces crossed $100M.

Series E, putting Vercel valuation well in excess of $3 billion.

The Global Sales Engineering team alone now numbers 25 - such a privilege to work alongside this incredible world class  team.