My computing timeline.
This is the journey, so far, of our founder Ben's exposure to computers and software development
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1981
BBC Micro computer - my Primary School gets one - the first computer I have seen
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Age 9 : I become the IT 'monitor' for the school - exploring and setting thing up for the teachers
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1986
8086 chip PC - High School would get me hands-on, and learning Turbo Pascal
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1990
Sixth Form project - a friend and I implemented an inventories database for our Health Authority!
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1994
CERN : 3rd year Physics research project used Fortran with live data from the ALEPH detector
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Postgraduate studies included 'the Educational use of multi-media and internet based information'
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1997
Mars Pathfinder : As a Physics teacher I would take all my pupils to use the live data from the Sojourner rover on Mars
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1998
HTML club - I would run after school clubs building web pages
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1999
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2000
dotCom startup : Dendral - I switched professions, to become a fulltime developer - #2 in a VC backed neural-semantic net startup, way ahead of it's time
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2004
CSW Healthcare : NPfIT - a small cog in one of the largest IT projects in UK history - the national data spine
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2006
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2006
XML Summer School - Jeff Barr would discuss Amazon's new S3 service -which would herald the start of AWS
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MSc in Information Technology … while working on another side-project ;)
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2006
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2007
CSW British Computer Society’s SME Organisation of the year 2007
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ISO/BSi Technical Committee member for IST41 - technical reviews of key standards ODF and OOXML.
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2007
Adobe : joined as Senior Technical Manager, would become manager responsible for Professional Services EMEA for the Scene7 product.
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2008
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2009
Conference speaking including Adobe Summit, Digital London, and Webinars
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2012
Amplience : Director of Professional Services, in this Amplified User Experience focused UK startup.
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2014
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2015
Amplience: became Director of Pre-Sales - as we achieved 425% growth over 3 years. ($37M series C)
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2016
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2017
Storyus : the family-friendly storytelling platform - I started building the ideal 'slow social' platform
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2018
Cloudinary : Principal Solution Consultant : I joined this developer-first Dynamic Media platform, 500k+ users, 40 billion + assets
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2019
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2020
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2021
Cloudinary : remarkable, with no VC funding, hits $1 Billion valuation, Forbes cover story
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2021 March
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What's next?