Mike Rowlands- Managing Director
Prior to joining LShift Mike consulted on digital
communications and Internet strategy for six years, working with
some of the best respected companies in the world. Over this time
he has built a number of web businesses and is now responsible at
LShift for helping clients build theirs.
Lee Coomber- Technical Director
Lee has been programming computers since age five when he
was literally happy to work for peanuts. He has a B.Sc. in
Artificial Intelligence and has been developing Internet
applications since 1996. He joined LShift from design agency Lateral where he
was Technical Director and has since taken a sabbatical to provide the same
service for online accountancy firm Crunch.
Keith Fisher- Client Services Director
Keith's commercial experience includes a 15 year stint in north America
where he took tech companies from initial investment searches through to
running international sales and support channels. Most of his technical
background has involved firing high energy lasers at inanimate objects,
though this changed when he became involved in medical imaging. His
favorite (sic) buzzword is alignment.
Stuart Mottram- Systems Director
Stuart has degrees in Mathematics and Applied Computing and
has worked as a developer since 1991 building custom web based
solutions. He has also built an ISP and Web hosting company. He
has experience in a wide variety of hardware, operating systems
and programming languages.
Julian Burns- Programme Manager
Julian has been involved with technology companies for more than 25 years.
Starting as a developer in the financial sector, he moved into project management
during a 9 year spell with CMG. Since that time he has operated in a variety of
senior and director level positions in medium and smaller software companies
always maintaining a focus on effective project delivery.
Elaine Lynch- Office Manager
Elaine turned down a university place to become a nanny in the
US. Back in Dublin she worked in retail and learned about customer
service and staff management. She then became a receptionist for a
corporate travel agency, and within three months had moved into
the accounts department. She then took on the roles of Office
Manager, PA and Accounts Administrator - 'Jill of all
trades'.
Murielle Dumschat- Admin Assistant
Murielle has worked as a freelance Office Manager and PA in large
advertising companies like Ogilvy & Mather, McCann-Erickson etc. Outside
of that she has travelled the world, trekking on Everest alone and touring
Europe on a motorbike. From Frankfurt she moved to London to study Art &
Design History & Communication. She is also a keen cyclist and snowboarder.
Tim Band
Tim graduated from
Oxford with a BSc (1st) in Mathematics and Computation. Since then he's been gainfully
employed writing 3D graphics engines for Playstation games, leading the development of
build tools and internationalisation projects for industry leaders. For fun he works on
a Digital Signal Processing for a Guitar Amplifier Synthesiser and Linux Stopmotion projects.
Yong Wen Chua
Yong Wen is a verified student, sometimes a programmer, developer,
engineer, and an all round geek in general. He has worked (perhaps too much) on C++.
He is in love with Object Oriented Programming and fascinated by Functional
Programming. He brings enthusiasm and a keenness to learn and explore new territory.
He studies at Imperial College.
Sophie Clare
Sophie was one of the founders of LShift and has worked in
commercial Internet and new media agencies since 1994. She has an MSc
in Multimedia Systems which focussed on interface design and development,
project planning and release management. These days at LShift she concentrates
on QA of user interfaces.
Paul Crowley
Paul's varied computing background ranges from papers on
cryptography and cryptanalysis at highly regarded conferences,
through innovative algorithms for fast voxel computer graphics, to
rendering for print media and precise satellite navigation. He
loves scripting languages, Unix, Internet technologies, and open
source software.
Michal Cudrnak
Michal's passion for all things computers started one sunny summer
in his pre-school years when he gained access to a shiny 286 that he
took apart in no time. When he's not learning yet another programming
language he's to be found jumping around with his camera in
the countryside. He brings to LShift a fresh Computing (MEng) degree
from Imperial and a passion for discussions about what the next big
language will be.
Martin Eden
Martin is passionate and perhaps a little too obsessive about user
interfaces than is healthy (just one more pixel to the right!). So long
as he can write code of some sort he's happy, but C# is where he's most
at home. He's a little over-enamoured of the more magniloquent facets of
the English lexicon, but he tries not to let this seep into his variable
names.
Akos Farkas
Akos started programming at a risk management software vendor and ever
since regards programming as a way to have a sneak-peak into other
disciplines such as finance, statisics or trading, while having fun solving
their problems. He loves succint and interactive languages, especially F#
and Python, and has a constant itch to find the next book to bury himself
into.
Anthony Harris
Whilst studying Mathematics and Actuarial Science at Melbourne University,
Anthony discovered computer science. Since then, he has built and managed
software ranging from 24x7 OTP systems to small internal productivity
solutions. He is passionate about delivering quality products through
disciplined application of effective software engineering practices.
Ben Hood
Ben joined LShift after contributing to the
RabbitMQ project. His most ambitious IT project was to install a sensor
on the cat flap on his back door that could use pattern recognition
to allow his own cherished Siamese through and block the big black cat
from next door. Not unlike most of the SAP-style projects he has been
involved in, by the time that the sensor was integrated and had passed UAT,
winter was afoot and it was too cold for his Siamese to
venture out at all.
David Ireland
On graduating in Mathematical and Computer Science, David
began programming Signal Processing software back in 93. His
enthusiasm for interactivity and cross-media publishing has taken
him through projects as diverse as Interactive Learning systems
and Electronic Program Guides for Cable TV.
Paul Jones
Paul has been playing with computer hardware and software since the
age of five, successfully deploying his first commercial project at
the age of 16. Since then Paul has juggled work as a full time
developer with studies in Software Engineering, and an MPhil in Ambient
Information Display. He has worked with and contributed to
many Open Source projects and likes finding the right tool for a job.
Jacek Lach
After taking a break from work to complete his MEng degree, Jacek is back
at LShift. It's unusual to find him without his headphones on. Each of his
favorite activities: programming, reading, playing and writing computer games,
or (when weather allows) taking long walks through London parks, seems to
benefit from a soundtrack.
Alan Moran
Alan started out engineering things in the physical world. He changed
to software engineering in the mid-nineties, by working on energy forecasting
with neural networks. Since then he has worked on a great variety of software
projects and technologies, including software for transplantation medicine.
He is interested in bioinformatics, Python, Open Data and the open
sharing of information. He holds a MSc in Software Engineering.
Michael Porter
Mike has been programming computers since his parents bought
him a ZX81 too many years ago to remember. He obtained a BSc in
Computation and has since worked with a wide variety of different
technologies on projects including video conferencing, image
processing and a range of CD/DVD-ROM titles based on a 3D model of
the human anatomy.
Alexander Schmolck
Alexander is a fully qualified emacs operator who likes several obscure
programming languages and films. He also used to know some cognitive science
and read books, but still remembers a little about pattern recognition (he
even got a PhD after he learned to stop worrying and love The Mathworks).
Jarek Siembida
While still at school Jarek's talents in Physics and Electronic were
recognised in national competitions. He has a deep knowledge of operating
systems, especially Unix, and a proven ability to track down and fix problems
on any level, from applications down to system libraries. His development
experience includes work on projects spanning extremes of scale. He comes to
LShift after working at Citrix, NewBay, Google and Sun Microsystems.
Frank Shearar
Frank has a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science. He started out
studying programming to support his maths interests, and ended up
learning maths to support his programming interests. He's particularly
keen on network protocols and has spent far too much time implementing
SIP and RTP stacks. He likes learning new programming languages.
Ceri Storey
Ceri took his first steps into the world of programming whilst still
in primary school by programming graphics hacks on a ZX Spectrum. Later,
he became fascinated by the world of internet protocols and Linux. Formerly
a systems administrator, he enjoys working with languages such as Python and
Clojure, and has interests in administrative automation, photography and
spoken languages.
James Uther
James started programming as a child when games were needed for the
family Apple, and ended up with a PhD in Computer Science. He worked
on the web when it was young, smartphones when they were new, and has
done stints of system architecture and UI design & evaluation, but
always gravitates towards mucking around with code. He loves seeing what
he's created bring a bit of joy to someone’s day.
John Wright
John received an Amstrad computer for his seventh birthday and learned
to program by reading its manual cover to cover. After a stint as a
record producer, John returned to his first love and gained a diverse
range of software experience, from mobile applications to groupware,
marketing, travel, social media and telecommunications. His passion is
programming language design.
