My name's Matt White, I live in London but was born and brought up in Ipswich, Suffolk a typically English town. For the first 5 years of my life we lived in a tiny village called Raydon and then moved to a slightly larger village, Witnesham.
We had a great childhood playing football at the rec, swimming in our pool during the summer and spending a little too much time with our ZX-81 and Spectrum. My brother and I went to St Josephs College (that was), a day and boarding school in Ipswich.
After doing moderately well in a-levels I studied for a degree in Geography at University College, London which was just a superb 3 years of drinking far too much and, looking back on it, working far too little.
I was fortunate enough to get a job straight out of university on a graduate scheme at a company called Willis which was a great starting point to learn programming and systems development. i stayed for 5 years almost to the day.
Since 2000 I have been an independent consultant working as a specialist developer of large or particularly complex Lotus Notes and Domino applications in the financial services industry. If you'd like to know more then please have a look at my company site.
Since 2007 I have been working with Bruce Elgort on a Lotus Community site called IdeaJam, if you are interested in using IdeaJam in your organisation then please contact either myself or Bruce.
My career since 1996 has been tied very closely in to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, I am not a partial observer! Generally I am pretty biased towards Notes and Domino, I do like some other technologies but I'm human and know where my bread's buttered!
If you want to get in contact with me please do - matthew dot white at fclonline dot com
