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R&D Director at JFDI Consulting Ltd; thought leader; automation guru; 33 years a consultant; writer & conference speaker; lifelong inventor & automator of everything; explainer of things; honest & ethical approach to consulting. I love communicating technical matters to business people, business matters to technical people, & simplifying gnarly concepts for the layman. I've written professionally since 1986, in The Technology of Software Protection published by The BCS, then in publications like PC Pro Magazine (monthly Real World Database/Development Column), Personal Computer World & PC Magazine. I've been in IT industry consultancy roles for over 33 years, programming & building computers since I was 12. I've spoken at conferences for the past several decades, starting in the 1990s with Microsoft TechEd & the FoxPro User Group.Automation fascinated me all my life. I've automated thousands of processes with software & hardware. I enjoy helping companies get automation right, so it benefits their people, processes, policies & ultimately their business.JFDI Consulting specialises in bringing about bottom-line improvements for clients through the application of technology to create automation solutions for business process problems. We specify, architect, design & create automation systems using appropriate software & hardware. You won't find us trying to shoehorn one tool into every scenario. When we're your consulting, mentoring & software development partner, you know we've got your back.Bobb is our workflow engine for real-time/time-series data. Hundreds of different use-cases, including all kinds of Smart Building & Industry4.0 applications. Case studies at https://jfdi.info/bobbMy everyday work skills: strategic technology consultancy, Internet of Things consultancy, automation systems, Enterprise Architecture, Microsoft Azure cloud/serverless systems architecture; various cognitive, AI & Machine Learning services; Microsoft 365 & SharePoint; Microsoft Power Platform including Power Automate & UI Flows; web UX design & development with React, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript; NodeJS, Node-RED; SQL & no-SQL database technologies; C#/.NET software development, C/C++ embedded firmware engineering; training & speaking for seminars and conferences. I also do ultra low power electronics design, product design & 3D printing.Passionate supporter of the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development https://globalgoals.org. Because the only way we're going to solve the biggest problems facing our planet is together, using technology.

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