About Me

I was born in Canberra, Australia, but have lived in Brisbane for most of my life. I'm currently working part time as a software engineer at a traffic management systems company, and completing my Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems at The University of Queensland. I also run a business consulting on web development projects.

I am very interested in engineering and making things, particularly in embedded computer systems and digital electronics. I also like computer programming, photography, and shooting and editing video and film. I mainly use and program on and for Linux and Mac OS X, but have a great deal of experience in development and use of most major platforms.

I love snowboarding, and also enjoy rock climbing and playing golf and volleyball. One of my more unusual interests though is fire spinning, which I have been doing for about three or four years now. You can see some interesting time lapses of this in my Fire gallery.

In my work as a freelance web developer, and specialise in programming with PHP and interacting with MySQL databases. I run my own servers running Linux, which is really fun to play around with. Unfortunately my internet connection is neither fast enough or reliable enough for it to be as good as I'd like, but it is useful as a staging and testing environment for web sites.