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Gender	Male
Industry	Technology
Occupation	Enterprise Productivity Solutions Architect
Location	Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
Introduction	I work primarily as an Enterprise productivity solutions architect; I am specialised in providing Microsoft Cloud (Office365 and Azure) solutions. I am employed by a Tier 1 Microsoft Cloud Services Partner in the UK pushing the boundaries of our productivity solutions, IoT offerings and apps. I also work extensively within Microsoft Cloud BI stack, providing BI solutions for everything from on-prem data to Streaming Analytics driven by Azure Event Hubs. I have a daughter, Ella, and a son, Alex who both keep me on my toes. I'm a fully fledged geek, I paint toy soldiers and play table-top war games.
Interests	Wargaming, painting miniatures, motorbikes, reading, academic philosophy, real beer, running, walking, football, fine art, opera, scrabble, computer games, trees, Minis
Favorite music	Everything from Wagner to The Killers
Favorite books	The Magus; John Fowles, Philosphical Investigations; Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Phenomenology of Perception; Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Critique of Pure Reason; Immanuel Kant, Any and all fantasy lit: Hobb, Tolkein, Rankin, Pratchett, Pullman, etc. etc., Asimov