Damon Hart-Davis

Current

Founder at DHD Multimedia Gallery
Managing Director / Owner at ExNet

Past

CTO/Owner at Ixaris

Education

The University of Edinburgh

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Damon Hart-Davis’s Summary

Experienced in engineering mission-critical systems in many areas including investment/merchant and retail/Internet banking.
Also a keen provider of "pro bono" services such as the Gallery (http://gallery.hd.org/) with many millions of unique visitors, NTP, etc, etc.
My aim is always to create reliable and usable systems with fun technology!
I have a BSc(Hons) in AI&CS and an MSc in CS from Edinburgh University and am brewing up to starting a part-time PhD...

Damon Hart-Davis’s Specialties:

Architecture, Java, C++, parallel, secure, distributed and resource-constrained systems, UNIX, networking, protocols, C, testing. Financial derivatives systems, payment systems, Web publishing, digital electronics, high-level problem solving and ideas generation, journalism, technical/sales presentation.
Java "Expert" in Sun's Java Community Process in a couple of areas.

Damon Hart-Davis’s Experience

Founder

DHD Multimedia Gallery

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Museums and Institutions industry)

August 1997 — Present (12 years)

Founder and maintainer of the Gallery (http://gallery.hd.org/) set up to be a pro-bono provider of free images for Web (and other) use by various contributors. The Gallery attracts several million visitors a year and probably just about breaks even financially (though more bandwidth, etc, would always be welcome, naturally).
Managing Director / Owner

ExNet

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

April 1988 — Present (21 years 4 months)

ExNet provides consultancy services from one-man-bands to multinationals, especially in the merchant-banking sector. Clients include BP, Nomura, Lehman Brothers, RBS.

ExNet was one of the first ISPs in the UK, and supports many "pro bono" public services such as NTP (network time protocol) servers and sponsors the DHD Multimedia Gallery http://gallery.hd.org/

I manage ExNet and I am a consultant to ExNet's clients.
CTO/Owner

Ixaris

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

August 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 2 months)

Developing new ideas and/or turning them into production-quality, well-engineered solutions. Looking out for new technologies. Part of the management team.