Neontribe People
Biography
Harry is a fifteen year veteran marketing professional, who has worked in a wide variety of sectors and sizes of organisation. After helping take an Internet security start up from 3 employees to acquisition by Sun Microsystems, he worked firstly in their global trade finance team, then in product marketing for their meta-directory product. Since leaving software marketing, he's been helping organisations define how they use the Internet, mainly in the education and charity sectors, and managing the resulting projects.
Key Skills
- Marketing, planning and strategy
- Social media
- User-centered design
- Software requirement gathering and specification process
- Project management
Interests
Food and drink, specifically the beers of Timothy Taylor, offal in all its many and varied forms, pork scratchings, military history, environmental issues, and improvisational theatre.
Biography
Rupert began working with the Internet and open source technology in 1998, bringing skills from previous careers in theatre and education. Since then he's built applications and devised strategies for a wide range of client organisations - usually with an emphasis on supporting educational initiatives and building communities. An abiding interest in the social aspects of Internet usage and a willingness to theorise informs his thinking and leads our development as an organisation.
Key Skills
- Internet futurology
- Software specification and design
- Application programming in Python
- Linux system administration
- Internet presentation layer coding in Javascript, HTML and CSS
Interests
Open source software philosophy and advocacy, racing dinghies, crewing punts, building puppets, and cooking.
Biography
Neil's degree in geophysics led to initially a career in the oil industry. After too many trips to out of the way places, he left in favour of resurrecting a deep interest in technology. For the last ten years he's been involved in a wide variety of IT projects, focussing on open source software development and deployment.
Key Skills
- Software specification
- Application programming in Python
- Linux system administration
- Database design and administration
- Internet presentation layer coding in Javascript, HTML and CSS
- Server-side scripting in Shell and Perl
Interests
Gaming, vile liquers from around the world, cross-country pantomime.
Biography
Toby trained in computer science and psychology, and has been working on Internet projects since 1996. He authored the first Java strong cryptographic implementation outside the USA. After helping take an Internet security start up from 3 employees to acquisition by Sun Microsystems, he worked in global professional services for 3 years before leaving for self-employment. As well as working for Neontribe, he teaches web design part-time at Anglia Polytechnic Universtity.
Key Skills
- Application programming in Java and Python
- Unix system administration, Linux and Solaris
- Internet presentation layer coding in PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS
- Server-side scripting in Shell, JSP, ASP, and Perl
- Internet security programming - Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), On-line Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) Client Server Architectures.
- Database administration for MySQL
- IT teaching and training
- Carrying heavy weights
- Conflict resolution
Interests
Rugby union, childcare, the various sub-genres of heavy metal music, and poor quality science fiction films of the 1970s.
Biography
Heydon went to university in the salubrious Hatfield where he intended to study art and things but ended up helping to form a fake marketing agency and posed as his own degree show's corporate sponsor. At his first job he hoped to learn web design but spent much of his time in a small room photographing ladies' halter tops. Later, he discovered CSS and became a sole trader before meeting Harry et al. His design, coding and music blog is called HeydonWorks.
Key Skills
- Semantic/accessible HTML
- CSS that works in Internet Exploder without any filthy hacks
- Making things simple and pleasurable to use
- Massaging things in Photoshop
- Drawing things in Flash
- Making little jquery plugins
- Procedural PHP and using .txt files as databases
- Selective naysaying
Interests
Punky blues music, skiing, sea life
Biography
Callum's identity and personal history are closely guarded secrets.
Key Skills
- Drupal/PHP development
- Very clever things that we won't get into right now
Interests
WoW
Biography
Made the mistake of believing that a science based education meant forgoing creativity and has been forging an uphill battle out of the 'arts' towards her childhood ambition of becoming a creative technician. Having the belief that the TV/Film industry will one day merge with the computer/internet world, she has planted a foot firmly in each camp (in the hope of taking over the world - or perhaps saving it). She occupies her spare time, with producing TV series' about musical theatre (for no other reason than that she can and has been asked to). And is eking towards completion an OU degree in computer science.
Key Skills
- Wordpress
- Drupal
- can usually decipher php, Java, python, HTML and CSS
- saying 'Yes, I can do that.'
Interests
would like to have a cunning plan to retire by the age of 45 and sail around the world a few times with her husband, meeting up with her children at random intervals, and writing a novel or 2 whilst filming a ground-breaking documentary about the social ails of the world.
