Welcome to my home page. Like most home pages, this page is a permanent work in progress. Let me know if you find anything broken, or if you'd like to see other stuff on this site.
September 2006 and I've moved to Global Knowledge as Chief Architect for our European practice. A fantastic job and one I'm already loving the company, its people and my job!
2003-2006 were interesting as I got into the QA culture. Sadly, early in 2006, QA was the target of a successful take-over by Interquad. Leaving became the only sane reaction.
2003 has been a lot of fun so far - in a very difficult climate. interesting year. At the start of the year, I accepted a full time position as Chief Technologist at QA, a large IT training and consulting firm in the UK. See www.qa.com for more details about QA. My job is a mixture of some consulting, some training, some writing and presenting and some marketing. Plus lots of talking and listening to customers. In May, I was lucky enough to get to meet Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's president. I'd met Steve before in London in September 2002, and it was nice to keep in contact. Steve's a marvellous man, polite, charming and a great listener. And he's a man who gets things done.
In October 2003, I went to New Orleans representing QA to pick up two prestigious awards. First, we were awarded the Western European CTEC Solution of the year (Lutz Ziob gave the awards). We also won the global award, which I was lucky enough to collect on behalf of everyone at QA. To top it all off, I got the change to have a great chat with Lori Moore, who runs PSS worldwide (and owns the MVP program). It was as great week.
One of the cooler accolades of 2003 was being named as a Microsoft Regional Director for Europe! See www.microsoft.com/rd for more information about the Regional Director Programme.
The latest edition of our Windows TCP/IP book, Windows 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services was published by Microsoft Press in the spring and has sold well. Over at Amazon, we have 5 stars, and we're 7th in the list of TCP/IP books while the Windows 2000 edition is at 22. We're still not ahead of Steven's despite the fact that his book is several years old. Rich would find that funny, I suspect.
2002 was a (relatively) quiet year - a mixture of training, consulting and writing. But not so much travelling!In early May, I gave two talks at a neat conference for MCT trainers, MCTCon. The summer was spent writing my chapters of the Windows 2003 TCP/IP book. Over the summer I got approached by QA with the opportunity to become their Chief Technologist - and I started working for them in the autumn, initially as a contractor. The plan is to go full time at the new year.
2001 was spent doing a variety of cool things, including travelling throughout the world working as a consultant, a trainer and as a writer. My training and consulting work concentrated on high end Windows 2000, Windows XP and Microsoft ISA server courses, mainly for Microsoft. My writing included my regular column for ESM Magazine, where I am the Windows Editor and a significant amount of time spent Redmond working on the .NET Server Resource Kit. As the DNS writer, I developed 3 DNS related chapters for the .NET Server Resource kit's TCP/IP guide as well as contributing to many more.
My home is in the UK, in the village of Cookham. I used to own and operate PS Partnership, a small Windows Consultancy in the Thames Valley but more recently have taken a full time job. PS Partnership is effectively dormant, although is still exists, and may one day blossom again. My home life consists of a cottage in Berkshire, and it's inhabitants: my wonderful wife Susan and our darling five year old daughter Rebecca. Yeah, I know that the pictures need up dating. One of my many things to do to this site. One benefit of the cottage is that it has a great wine cellar. I have three pictures: here, here, and here showing part of it.
This is a link to full CV I'm also an MCT and MCSE and an MVP, so you may see a lot of me on the various Windows 200/XP/.NET Server and other Microsoft related newsgroups.
I've been lucky enough to get involved in a few publishing projects. Here are the books I've worked on:-
Additionally, I am Windows Editor for ESM Magazine and write a regular column: Inside Windows.
If you know me, you'll know that I like sharing my knowledge and am a heavy contributor to a variety of Internet news groups as well as a Microsoft MVP. Here are some Technical Tips - just some guidance on a few technical matters. I hope this information helps. Please let me know what else I can offer here!
I've also started adding some Windows 2000 tips and tricks. This is a little bare just now, but I'll be adding to it as time goes on! For other Windows 2000 information, see my publication site for articles and I've written or have been involved in.
I often find some well written stuff or other references out on the Net, and elsewhere. Here are some links to useful things other folks have written. Thus far, there are links to more information on TCP/IP and Winsock. I hope to get more stuff up there in due course.
To be fun - here's a page of fun links I've found over the months. Enjoy!
Like most web sites, these pages are under more or less constant revision - although this is an informal process. I update this when I can, which recently has not been often! I'm doing what I can to add stuff here, so feel free to visit again. And, of course, if there's anything you disagree with or want more detail on, or if you have any suggestions, then why not mail me??
I am no longer available for consultancy work. Although I'm always interested in hearing about any nice projects!
PGP Key
I have published my PGP Key on every PGP key server I can find in the world, as well as here on my PGP Key page.
Web logs, or 'blogs', are a sort of online diary cum private newpaper. I currently keep a weblog at http://tfl09.blogspot.com. Come join in the fun! I have a second, work related blog at http://cacorner.blogspot.com.
Last Updated: 10/05/2006
