| Family and background |
Having lived in various places since childhood, I am now married to Grace Semple and live in Glasgow, Scotland. (More Partain family connections...)
| Work stuff |
I work at Verilab, based outside of Glasgow. We do chip design and (especially) verification. I am a Unix system administrator, plus a software guy who hassles chip-heads into Right Thinking (TM).
A reasonable chunk of what I do is freely available at the Arusha Project, for which I am a developer.
Before that (Oct. 1997-Apr. 2002), I worked at Motorola (East Kilbride, mostly), where I did similar sorts of things.
I came to Scotland in 1990 to be Simon Peyton Jones's research slave, working on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), in the Computing Science department at Glasgow University. I did that until July 1996.
Between Glasgow University and Motorola, I did a spell at Atlantech Technologies, in Cumbernauld (just outside of Glasgow); hung around a lot with the Systems Research Group at the university; and did a spot of contracting.
| Interests and diversions |
I have the beginnings of pages about my work-related interests and some (work-related) recommended reading.
Bsides my Arusha Project stuff, I have some other software that is also freely available (but you may need to ask for it).
Then there are these casual diversions...