About

Hello and welcome to my site!

This is my home for blogging about work, coding, my ventures through a software engineering degree and my love of photography. I will also be showcasing software, web systems and desktop apps I’ve already created, alongside recording code snippets I found really useful and don’t want to forget!

First of all, let me say that not everything I do is perfect, although that is naturally always the aim. Throughout my blog posts and expo’s of software there will be opportunities to leave comments as programming is a constant learning experience. I really do welcome your opinions, good or bad.

I have over 20 years of experience in working with and building IT Systems in clinical environments, starting as a Field Engineer in Primary Care and transitioning through different roles to where I find myself now; an IT Manager for Pathology Systems in Secondary Care for two busy hospital Trusts.

My development work has covered multiple types of interfacing between different systems and communication methods to full-stack development of complex management solutions. This has included C# (.NET WinForms, WPF and MAUI, inc MaterialDesign and MahApp Metro), Visual Basic, JavaScript, Java, JQuery, PHP, HTML, CSS (inc. Bootstrap), Batch, PowerShell, SQL, MySQL, Firebird DB languages/scripts to name but a few.

I have also been involved and the lead technical resource for the local implementation of significant national project work covering the implementation of new systems including NHS NPfIT1, Smartcard Services, Electronic Prescription Service, e-Referrals Service (formally Choose & Book), clinical system and data migrations.

I have also been the technical lead for PC upgrade/replacement rollout programmes, infrastructure replacements, new building IT commissioning and decommissioning, problem solving complex live systems and creating development plans for staff to make their own way in the world of IT.

  1. The National Programme for IT was an ambitious £11.4b programme of investment into the UK’s NHS to bring it up to date in terms of using a digital records and to make up for years of underinvestment in computers and infrastructure. For various reasons, the NPfIT Programme was dismantled in 2011. (link for more info.) ↩︎