About

I’m a partner in Glasshouse Multimedia, a Cape Town based web development & design company. The company is really taking off and we’re doing some exciting work about which I’ll hopefully blog soon.

I’m happily married to Nicole, and we live in a small house in Table View. Hoping to move to something bigger soon. I need more space for my bikes (see below).

My background is in various things, from running restaurants, to web design, to web programming, to strategic and change management.

I studied along the way, completing half of a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (the easy half) and finishing my BCom in Information Systems and Strategic Management. I got about half way through my Honours in Business Management before I decided that starting up a business with a colleague was a better idea. Currently I’m studying a 4 month course in Brand Management. Those marketing guys aren’t going to baffle me with big words anymore.

With the responsibility of running a small business unfortunately I’m not getting to do the web development I really love. I started out with ASP and progressed to PHP when I discovered how much more capable it was. Lately we’ve been looking at MVC frameworks and are trying to make the difficult decision whether to stick with PHP or jump ship to Ruby on Rails. I’ll blog something about that soon I’m sure.

Outside of work most of my time is spent on two wheels. I race my road bike for the Vineyard Hotel BikeMax sub-vets cycling team. When I need to have more fun you’ll find me on my mountain bike. I also race tandem occasionly with my obsessive compulsive mate Uwe.