{"id":6,"date":"2013-05-21T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-05-31T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:37:30","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently Head of IT for a travel technology company (if you&#8217;re looking for a programming job, contact me!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously, I was a contractor mainly working on web projects in PHP. Prior to that, I was co-owner of a technology company which offered advanced virtualised office systems for SMEs and the enterprise, telecommunications, white-label e-learning solutions, bespoke IT and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even further back, I worked in London in a Media Monitoring company called Durrants, now part of the Gorkana Group, where I was a part of the management team which computerised and transformed the company into a modern market leader, working for many Blue Chip companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I live in Essex, England with my patient partner and three incredible daughters.  I&#8217;m a keen cyclist, sailor and VR enthusiast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have experience in many areas including PHP, AWS, ASP, VB, SQL, MVC, Linux, networking and telecomms. I am passionate about Open Source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently Head of IT for a travel technology company (if you&#8217;re looking for a programming job, contact me!). Previously, I was a contractor mainly working on web projects in PHP. Prior to that, I was co-owner of a technology company which offered advanced virtualised office systems for SMEs and the enterprise, telecommunications, white-label [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}