I'm a software architect, cum programmer, cum researcher, cum other stuff. I work for the Atlas of Living Australia, which is run by CSIRO. CSIRO. Oddly, for someone with my background, I claim to be Australia's premier consumer of taxonomy.
Working for CSIRO has been an adventure. I've done everything from distributed air hockey, remote controlled mining machinery, languages for sensor networks, remote medical systems, fighter controller training systems to trying to work out why beer orders were not going through.
Before then, I was working for the -- sadly gone -- TARMS. The open-source elements financial model that TARMS was working on is no longer readily available, since the TARMS website has been shut down. I'm hosting the last publicly available release.
Before working for TARMS, I was a postgraduate student at Melbourne University Computer Science studying logic programming with Lee Naish.
Before that, I was working for Beam Software producing computer games in the C64/Sinclair Spectrum era. You can read about my best game in Retro Gamer.
I'm married, to Alison Wain. Alison's particular area of interest is Large Technology Objects.
I have two children, Matthew and Marina, who are now adults. I used to have a photo archive, but it's so out of date, it's comical. The only useful remnant is the World's Youngest Topologist.
I live in Bungendore, a town about 30km (as the car drives) from Canberra, capital city of Australia. Bungendore is a good place to live, if you don't like the sterility of the planned, planned, planned bush capital. Bungendore is growing. We used to live on the edge of the town; we now live in the centre without having moved.
I'm a member of the Bungendore Volunteer Rural Fire Brigade, part of the NSW Rural Fire Service. I'm now the longest-serving, still active member of my brigade, something which came up in a trivia night, which is a little bit of a worry. I was captain of the brigade during the the 2019/20 bushfires and I'm extremely proud of the brigade and those in it, although my efforts in those times largely consisted of insisting that people took a rest.
Where I live on LinkedIn but I'm really, really not looking for a job at this time.