Who is Nosher?
Nosher was born near Manchester in '67, then moved around tons to Knutsford, Timperley, Altrincham and Sandbach before heading down south to Barton-on-Sea, New Milton and Walkford. Went to Sandbach Grammar, Arnewood school and Brock College before going to Plymouth Polytechnic. There, Nosher drank too much beer and skived too many lectures and ended up with a "desmond" (a 2/2).
Following the life of academia, Nosher ended up working in the print industry, first for Robert Maxwell's BPCC group, at Soman-Wherry Press in Norwich, Printec at Diss and Business Magazines in Colchester. Then it was the St. Ives Group company Clays the book printers in Bungay. In 1995, a change of pace involved moving to local government at Suffolk County Council to become an award-winning webmaster and part of a pioneering team that produced one of the very first local government websites.
In 2000, Nosher started work as a webmaster for 3G Lab - a startup in a shed near Huntingdon. This morphed into Trigenix, where Nosher was both webmaster and UI developer (and contributor to Trigenix/uiOne development), which was eventually bought by US multinational Qualcomm. Nosher was by then a senior software engineer as well as touring the world doing training and user-interface development in uiOne and coding mobile phone UI software in C/BREW and Lua - including Illinois U.S. (Motorola), Kansas City (Sprint), Bangkok (Orange Thailand), Manila, Melbourne and Syndey (Telstra), Malaga (Telefonica) and Nanjing (Amoi) and stints at 3GSM (Cannes) and the BREW Developer conference (San Diego)
Then, in 2007, Nosher moved on to work (once again, with the guy who founded 3G Lab) for another start-up, this time specialising in mobile search. This involves desktop prototyping in Python and coding in Java, as well as internetty (xHTML/JavaScript/AJaX) stuff.
Whilst all this is going on, Nosher is a keen cook, musician (playing piano and Hammond organ in a rhythm-and-soul band, The BBs) and award-winning[1] photographer. Nosher also likes going to lots of live music (here is a list of a few older gigs Nosher has been to
[1] well, second-place winner in the Mill Road Winter Fair competition :-)
A few more pix, and why not
 | A photo taken for promotional purposes whilst at Suffolk County Council in 1997 (photo: Paul Mortlock, SCC). It was taken to commemorate ISIS achieving MSP status (pawns of the evil empire, etc). Myself and chum Russell had qualified as MCP, which gave ISIS the numbers required to be a certified solutions provider thingy. |
 | In 1998, the SCC website won the Society of Public Information Networks annual web award for excellence. Here is Nosh and Margaret Davies of SCC receieving the award at the annual conference in Birmingham |
 | Hangin' around for a bit of apres-ski in Chamonix (Le Tour). Photo taken by Sean (whose wedding pix are around here somewhere) |
Why not say "hello" at hello at nosher dot net.