About me

My name is Alex and I'm a creative technologist living in London. I currently work full time at an intergrated advertising agency called Archibal Ingal Stretton... . The company is quite large, with around 100 staff members (in the UK office) and work with clients such as O2, EDF, AOL, Skoda to name but a few.
I mainly specialise as an Actionscript (Flash/Flex/AIR) developer and provide consultation for creatives & project managers who are eager to have their idea's realised. This extends to area's including social networking and internet services. I also am familiar with a wide range of other development and design tools. Being a .NET agency, I dont really get to see a lot of PHP build work (I did begin learning a little ASP .NET 3 MVC... I've stopped now), however in recent months, I have worked on PHP build, in partiular, websites based on a Wordpress CMS.
I also do a lot of research work at the company, as well as in my free time. I feel I am a very self-motivated person, and often make time for learning and creativity. More recently I have begun working with c++ (which is my new love) and various libraries and frameworks such as OpenFrameworks, Cinder & OpenCV. I also do some work with Arduino and electronic design which is also based around the language.

My passion in life is to create, especially with technology. Pushing what it can do, mashing data together, getting machines talking and generally having fun doing it, is what floats my boat. Yes, I've been called a geek before.