If you're in a rush:
- Built CodeProject.com from the ground up. 25 years, 16M members, 65,000 articles,
billions of emails sent. At our peek we were in the top 1,000 sites in the world by traffic.
I know how to plan, build, manage and maintain high load, high availability sites on a
shoestring budget.
- Built CodeProject.AI, our edge-AI solution for providing an app-store style service
for disparate AI projects for use in-network AI applications. Over 1 million downloads and Docker image pulls.
- Full stack developer specialising in C#, Javascript/Typescript, SQL, HTML, Python, C++. Latest
focus is Artificial Intelligence, edge and hosted. Always looking to learn more.
- Highly organised with a passion for Product Development and Product Management.
- Excellent communicator, hundreds of articles published, lead teams for decades, provided product
training for dozens of sales reps, presented in the US and Europe on marketing and community building.
Able to convert complexity into understanding.
- Seeded, nurtured and managed the CodeProject community - one of the most supportive, self-managed
communities you will find. That's a lot of kittens to herd.
- Focussed on the goal, not on the buzzwords. I live to get the product out the door.
- Excellent in client meetings and can be trusted not to need adult supervision. The friendships I've
built I will cherish forever.
Summary
Award winning Entrepreneur, Product Manager, Full-stack Software Developer, Author, Marketer, Content
Strategist, Sales Engineer, Obsessive Organiser, Critical Thinker, Community builder, Cycling Physiology
nut.
A background in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Cosmology, Cryptography and over 30 years designing,
writing and delivering world class IT projects.
A heavy-lifter with a passion for launching projects and doing so with next-to-no funding and copious
duct-tape. Why put off till tomorrow what we can get out the door today.
Focussed on the client, the goal, the end-user, and diplomatic but firm in guiding teams and processes.
Experienced in the real-world, with all its slings and stones, and able to bridge the gaps between
stakeholders, clients, the technical team and sales.
A solid understanding of what ‘budgetry constraints’ mean and how to work with that. 25 years in
startup-mode brings a laser-like focus on what’s important. One learns how to enjoy economy class.
Goal
To provide value, leadership, experience and a ton of productivity to an organisation that’s making a
difference. To work with good, smart, fun, passionate people who don’t take themselves too seriously.
No job too intimidating, no job too humble. In the end it’s about the game, not the scorecard.
Skills
- Organisational Leadership. Communication, mentorship, organisation, strategy and budget
- Product research, design, management, construction, delivery, marketing and sales training.
- Software development: full stack from SQL, Redis, through .NET, Python and Typescript, to HTML, CSS, Vue.js
- Infrastructure management: 25 years experience wrangling servers in co-lo hosting environments, experience in AWS and Azure.
- Client relations - the good and the bad days. Everything from small ISVs to the Fortune 500 crowd.
- Sales training, collateral, metrics and pep-talks
- Marketing: sales and marketing funnels, collateral, outreach, strategy and messaging, with everything data and process driven.
- Community management: 29 years managing the OGs of online communities: CodeGuru.com to CodeProject.com.
- Authoring and Content Marketing. Prolific author of over 200 online articles, contributed to numerous books,
and written copious content marketing pieces for fortune 500 companies.
Accomplishments
- CodeProject.com: The OG of the software developer communities. 16M registered members,
65,000 full-length, high-quality articles with code. Self funded, built and hosted by myself and
my team in house. An outstanding, self-managed, supportive developer community the likes
of which will not be seen again.
- CodeProject.AI: An AI server for edge installations on any operating system, any hardware.
All the AI inferencing you need with your data staying safe within your network. From Raspberry Pi to
the latest Apple Silicon Macs. Take any AI project, wrap it up as a module and
your project is is now downloadable, installable and used by hundreds of thousands of users. Over
1 million downloads of our installers or Docker images. Full code available.
- DeveloperMedia.com A multi-national digital marketing agency for the IT space,
counting every heavy weight in the industry as a client. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Cohere,
Salesforce. You name them, we looked after them.
- ContentLab.com A content marketing agency utilising the top talent in the IT community
to create Content Marketing pieces from actual developers, guided by the minds behind CodeProject.
We know developers and how to talk to them because we are Developers.
- Canadian Fast 50 awards, Jolt Cola (remember them?) award, plus dozens of industry
accolades. 17 years as a Microsoft C++ MVP.
- Survived the dot-com crash, the financial crisis, and the COVID recession. I have the scars to prove it.
Education and Training
- BSc (Mathematics) with First Class Honours focussing on Astrophysics at the Australian National University.
- Post-graduate studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Geomorphology and Hydrology through Digital Elevation Models.
- Cryptanalysis and High Performance Computing, Australian Signals Directorate (formerly Defence Signals Directorate)
Portfolio
Artificial Intelligence
CodeProject.AI Server
CodeProject.AI Modules
Generative AI
Computer Vision
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Image Manipulation
Sound
Text and language
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Articles
System Programming
Web Development
C++ Programming
MFC Programming
SQL and T-SQL
C++/CLI
aka Managed C++
Visual J#
A blast from the past
Physiology / Training
(Private repos only)