Professional

Since graduating from the
University of Bristol with a first class degree in Computer Science, I have tried my hand at a number of things with varying degrees of success, including working for a
computer games company and studying for a
PhD.
Primarily a
web developer rather than a
graphic designer, I have professional experience in (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Python and JavaScript (including Ajax and DHTML). I have also developed and skinned sites using Zope, Plone and Drupal.
Personal

In my increasingly limited spare time, I'm into
Leroc jive dancing. Bristol and the South West have a very active Modern Jive scene, with Leroc classes taking place at various locations every night of the week.
I also have a purple belt in Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate, or
Combat Karate. This is a full-contact form of the martial art, which incorporates grappling and weapons training as well as the sparring and drills (
wax on, wax off) more often associated with karate.
It was my boyfriend, musician
Jonny Henderson, who introduced me to my
first client in the musical world. Jonny also shaped my musical tastes to include the likes of
Soulive,
John Scofield and
Larry Goldings. However, I have to confess that I also attended
Take That's reunion concert in May last year - purely for nostalgia's sake of course :)