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Short Bio

I have been working in and around computers and systems for a number of years and so have wide experience in a whole range of areas and environments.

Starting in the era before the IBM PC i worked on mainframes and minis, DEC, HP & ICL mainly programming in Cobol and NoSQL databases, although they were not called that then.

I was responsible for implementing EDI in a number of companies and ended up writing and publishing two books with Blackwell's on the subject as well as developing and writing the content for training manuals to be delivered by hypertext for UNCTAD and the NCC.

the internet cometh

From EDI it was short hop to the internet. And jumping in at the deep end i was involved in a three year project called Renaissance exploring how to deliver learning systems over networks and as the WWW slowly rolled on over it, developing standards and integrating them with pay systems as part of the EU ACTS project.

After that i starting contracting and have generally been involved in web based application and site development with private and public companies, government institutions and Digital Agencies

These include Suzuki, Renault, UFI, VSO, VAG, Reed Elsevier, BTA, QuinetiQ, EBay, ICL, AT&T, Vodafone, Razorfish etc.

In recent years the bulk of my work has been with the LAMP stack with html and more and more JavaScript as well as moving into the mobile space with web based application development. I have also been involved with agile methods, scrum, project management, continuous deployments and the whole development cycle. As well as some outliers like integrating R into a php application to allow for statistical reporting on projects.

If you want more details please email me at jmhowitt at mac dot com or ring on +44 787 6044487

For more news, information and regular postings go to my blog howitt.com