Damon Hart-Davis

Current

• Founder at DHD Multimedia Gallery
• Managing Director / Owner at ExNet

Past

• CTO/Owner at Ixaris

Education

• The University of Edinburgh

Recommended

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Connections

124 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• Mobile Gallery

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 (11 years 2 months)

  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; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1988 — Present (20 years 6 months)

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

Damon Hart-Davis’s Education

• The University of Edinburgh

  MSc, Theoretical Computer Science, 1991 — 1994

Additional Information

Damon Hart-Davis’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• Mobile Gallery

Damon Hart-Davis’s Interests:

Renewable Energy engineering, parallel and distributed computing, photography.

Damon Hart-Davis’s Groups:

•    Lehman Alumni
•    Java Architect
•    Publisher-world
•    UK Green Energy Engineering

Damon Hart-Davis’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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