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Working on exciting projects with museums and heritage organisations. Engagements include:• Reviewing and collaborating on project proposals and funding applications• Developing STEAM-related exhibitions and engagement• Scoping and delivering detailed research programs• Building oral history collections• Acting to save heritage at risk• Development of audiences• Fostering commercial opportunities• Building legacy and bringing new people into heritage

Working with commercial clients that have interesting perspectives and something original to offer.

Head of commercial content, so worked with major technology names on print and digital campaigns across the Situation Publishing stable of publications. Collaborated with business and creatives.Role included:• Editor Geek's Guide to Britain online, print and eBook - travelogue visiting the UK’s lost, forgotten and overlooked places of engineering, technological and scientific achievement.• Ran a program of lectures given by expert speakers from the worlds of science, history and research discussing specialist topics through the lens of technology, culture and ethics.• Online publishing micropayments project.

Directed packed tech and business current affairs features program - setting editorial direction, developing article synopses and working with creative team to deliver. Joint lead on busy news desk.

Reporting on tech wars, the rise and fall of tech firms and the motives and machinations of Silicon Valley’s operators. Pursued a rich seam of interviews with some of tech's pioneers that include:• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on building Apple’s first machine, the Apple I, in wood• Charles Simonyi, inventor of Microsoft’s Word and Excel - that dominated businesssoftware - on the code, people and films that inspired Microsoft• Michael Stonebraker: The relational database is a multi-billion-dollar industry. IBM conceived relational but entrepreneur Stonebraker seized IBM’s idea and beat IBM• Email daddy Dr. Nathaniel Borenstein, on snubbing Apple’s Steve Jobs not once - buttwice• Atari co-founder Al Alcorn about building Atari’s first game, Pong, under the buccaneering leadership of risk-taking of Nolan Bushnell• Lots of technology rockstars and business leaders in open source and at Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems (remember them?) and other ventures

Re-located to San Francisco to report on tech wars, the rise and fall of tech firms and the motives and machinations of Silicon Valley’s operators.

Broke lots and lots of tech exclusive news stories before graduating to running features and analysis desks for VNU's leading weekly business technology newspaper.

Broke lots of exclusive news stories: it was the dawn of the internet, networking and browsers. Lots of hope, lots of hype. Token Ring, ISDN or Netscape anyone? The deep foundations of where we are now.

Reporting on the evolution in personal computing. Multi-media PCs were the big thing.