My name is Justin Davies, 26 years old, and I live in London with my wife Aimee.

Professionally

I started off at SUSE Linux after leaving University at the tender age of 20 (I think). I started off as a Pre-Sales Consultant, and by the time I left, I was looking after the UK network, I was a Full Blown Consultant, had written 5 books for IBM (Linux on Netfinity), had got my first taste of Linux on IBM z/i/p series and was loving Linux.

After that, I joined Cinesite, which is a VFX House in Soho, and worked on films such as Harry Potter and Bond (and others I have forgotten), looking after the network, and migrating the artists from SGI Irix to Linux. At Cinesite, I met my now wife Aimee who is a Visual Effects Producer (yes, you can see her on the credits of films).

I then went back to consulting at Business Partners (the people who work closely with IBM, HP, Sun, Oracle, SGI etc.) looking after Linux, being a consultant, and finally moving up to being a Senior Solutions Architect for a large European company (SCC). A Solutions Architect is basically a person that looks at business issues and designs a technical solution, usually being the person that takes responsibility for the project from pre-sales to implementation and beyond.

I am now a freelancer doing the Solutions Architect role for different companies as it allows me to do lots of different things for different people.

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Outside Work

I run buddyPing and MobileGlu, two mobile projects in my spare time. BuddyPing is a MoSoSo platform that locates information based on a person’s location. MobileGlu is a mobile content aggregator that pulls in data from Flickr, MoblogUK, del.icio.us, Basecamp, Flagr, Rrove, upcoming.org, and RSS, optimises the content and pushes it down to a J2ME client sitting on your phone for offline viewing (you can also upload data from your mobile too).

What I know

Languages

C, C++, PHP, Perl, Ruby (learning), Bash, J2ME (slowly getting there!)

Operating Systems

OSX (yeah!!!), Linux (LPI-2), Windows (what can I say!), HP-UX, Solaris

Stuff

Apache, Drupal, Ruby on Rails (learning), Databases (accredited in DB/2 and Oracle), IBM stuff (certified solutions designer, xSeries and Linux expert certified, CDAT member, eXACT member), Postfix, iptables, SAMBA, NFS, NIS, DNS, Enterprise Architecture Design, Technical Project Management, Reverse CIO, and other things that don’t come to mind at the moment.