Current status

Available

Interested in

Consulting engagements, or potentially a permanent role, involving one or a combination of:

• Research & development;
• Technical community management;
• Enterprise open source strategy and governance;
• IT infrastructure architecture, strategy and solution design;
• Technical writing/journalism and blogging.

Location

Leeds-Manchester corridor (UK) or home-based preferred, with some travel if required. Other areas considered.

Experience

• Co-founder and chief executive of a start-up developing collaboration tools for electronic design
• Over 15 years systems and networks infrastructure experience that spans build, solution design, architecture and strategy
• Developed an open source governance practice for a global telco and represented them at the Linux Foundation and European Legal Network
• Electronic engineering background and write on open source hardware for a publication with a print circulation of ~200,000 across Europe and Asia
• Founded the first group to host regular meetings with talks on open source hardware
• Co-founded one of the UK's first hackerspaces, Electron Club, in 2006

Skills

• Linux and associated technologies
• Open source licensing and compliance
• IT infrastructure architecture and strategy
• Technology research and evaluation
• Product/service development
• Basic electronics including RF and embedded
• Business planning and writing funding applications
• Event production

For a full CV please see LinkedIn.

To contact e-mail: arback@computer.org.