About Me

When asked for a one liner about me, I generally reply something like this:

“Husband, Motorsport nut, Marshal (MSA Incident Officer), Techygeek, Photographer, Cat herder”

So…

Husband, Motorsport nut, Marshal…

I’m married, having met my wife on a race track marshalling a particularly wet race day at Castle Combe Circuit one day in 2007. I’m graded as Incident Officer with the MSA. If you’re not familiar with marshalling, we’re those guys (often “silly sods”) that you see standing on the sides of race circuits while the racing is happening.

Techygeek…

I work for what used to be MessageLabs, and was purchased by, and integrated into Symantec a couple of years ago. I’m a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, and my job is to provide the “As A Service” part of “Software As A Service”.

As of June 2011, there’s a small update to this; I’m very pleased to have moved into the Network Team, and so now I’m a Network Engineer, looking after the global network that provides connectivity for our service. The current buzzword is “the cloud”.

I enjoy gadgets, and I write code here and there, and occasionally for other people. I wrote something for Castle Combe Racing Club that allows them to track their marshals, which are attending which events, what grade they are, etc.

Photographer…

In my spare time (!), when I’m not marshalling, I enjoy photography. I’m not sure if other people enjoy it; it’d be a bonus if they did.

Kind of pulling the techygeek and photographer bits together, I wrote a website to showcase the photographs I like the most. The more “snapshotty” pictures go in the regular album.

Cat herder…

As anyone that’s had cats will agree, cats don’t have owners, they have staff. As such, my wife and I are staff to a pair of cats that we got from one of the local RSPCA rescue centres. They were about 6 months old when we got them, and we’ve watched as their personalities have emerged and grown. They’re the subject of some of my photography.