Received formal education in literatures and library science and training in information science and computer programming, has now been working as a web developer and information architect for nine years and over the last three years has focused on information management and sharing.
Has been working as web architect and information management specialist for the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) since 2005 and for FAO, Office of Knowledge Exchange - Capacity Building (OEKC) – Standards, tools and services, since 2007.
Solo Kent, UK based Drupal site architect/site builder since July 09 - not a newbie but loads to learn still! In a previous life held various web roles leading to IT director with a UK tour Operator. Changed direction, set up from home and work at my small piece of the coal face doing what I love - creating & building stuff. Looking forward to meeting other drupallers.
Doing Drupal sites on Windows has never been easy and using SQL Server was impossible. Microsoft is changing that with support for SQL Server in Drupal 7 and a new product called Web Matrix which makes it easy to build and host Drupal on Windows. In this session we’ll show off our new open source PDO_SQLSRV Driver and the new SQL Server Contributed Module created by Commerce Guys. We’ll then show you how easy Drupal is on Windows using WebMatrix. We’ll start with a brand new drop of Drupal, stand it up and deploy to a Windows host in just minutes.
I am a long time open source proponent and have had the pleasure of working in a variety of technical and commercial roles with companies such as Red Hat, IBM, and ArsDigita. I am currently Director of Professional Services for iO1 Ltd, a specialist web services consultancy based in Surrey, UK.