Personal Information
I am married to Julia, with two cats. My interests include: railways (researching and modelling); photography; music (listening and playing); family history; and reading.
In my spare time I have created some other web sites:
- Searle (Isle of Wight) family history. Some information I have collected while researching my family's history.
- The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR). An expanding site aiming to provide details of this historic railway to researchers and modellers.
- 5 & 9 Models. Run by enthusiast Chris Cox, he aims to provide simple kits for models of very early railway prototypes (original mainly LB&SCR). It derives its name from the old Bingo call: “5 & 9, the Brighton Line”.
I am a member of Ruxley Church; Epsom & Ewell Model Railway Club; the Brighton Circle
I also play in a music group (Bass guitar and Bass ukulele)
Contact Details
I live in Epsom in Surrey in the UK.
Employment
I am now retired.
Previous employers include:
- Mekon Ltd., as a Senior Consultant.
I specialised in:
- XML, XSLT/XSL-FO development
- DITA Open Toolkit development
- Structured FrameMaker development
- Frame Developer's Kit (FDK) and XML API development
- Adobe Systems Europe Ltd. (Supporting developers of Adobe FrameMaker+SGML, SGML & API applications);
- Program Products Ltd. (Technical support coordination);
- InterEurope Technical Services Ltd. (SGML & Adobe FrameMaker+SGML consultant);
- Datazone Ltd. (SGML, Adobe FrameMaker & Unix technical support);
- British Gas plc. (Development of programs to calculate gas properties)
Publications
Temperature Compensation of Surface Acoustic Waves on Berlinite. Ph.D. thesis (Bedford College, London University, 1981).