About

In 1996 while the Spice Girls hit the charts, and everybody was spending money again on CDs of albums they already owned in vinyl, I sat in my office with a couple of friends to build our first website. It was a tribute to our favourite film. I recall that we used a simple HTML editor called Hot Dog. I also recall that the CD of choice was not Spice Girls, but Ramones. I am too embarrassed to say what the film was.

While my graphic design business started converging towards homepages and simple websites, I learned about server-side programming and got keen on Cold Fusion, ASP, .Net until falling in love with PHP. Naturally, databases and database administration followed suit.

By the end of the 90s I was a university lecturer teaching print and online media. Whilst in the education sector I created learning management systems (LMS) portals and was a big promoter of distance learning technologies.

25 years on, and I have been fortunate enough to work for/with some of the biggest media companies in the UK – building sites for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Sky, Time Warner, Look Magazine, Marie Claire and many more. I have built leading fashion portals, sites for IT retailers, and sites and booking systems for renowned travel and tourism companies.

My other great passion is Data Science. I thrive in mining data for customer profiling, spotting patterns and using purchase information to customise the customer campaigns and UX experience. 

I look forward to working with you. Please get in touch.

Rob Walker – Founder, Data And Dev Services Limited.