Anthony joined Netskills as Assistant Computing Officer in September 2005 to aid in the day-to-day IT operations of the business.

Prior to Netskills, Anthony has worked at Newcastle University since May 2003 as Computer Officer to the University's Business Development Directorate.

Anthony's main duties include:

• Project and consultancy work
• Development of in-house systems
• Commissioning of new hardware and desktop support
• Managing installations and configuration of Netskills Training Suite
• Servers monitoring and patching

Anthony's main areas of skill and expertise lie in:

• Web development
• Information systems analysis and design
• Relational database design and development
• SQL, Perl and PHP

Recent consultancy work

School of Geography, Politics and Sociology website development

Providing web site administration, maintenance and development support for the web site of the School of Geography, Politics and Social Science at Newcastle University. Restructuring of content to reflect their current focus and to improve alignment with centrally provided University web content and services.

School of Geography, Politics and Sociology website

AHRC devolving diasporas research project database

Designed a database structure to meet the storage needs of the research project and implemented a web-based application to allow access.

Devolving Diasporas website

Educated at Plymouth University with a BSc(Hons) in Computing and Informatics, Anthony also completed a 13 month work placement at IBM Hursley Development Labs, Winchester, as part of his four year Computing degree. The placement consisted of work within the software test and performance community.

In his spare time, Anthony likes to do lots of running and cycling and also plays guitar and bass for various musicians.