STATUS / LIVE
What I'm Doing Now
Field service engineer by day. Websites, tools, sport and networking the rest of the time. This is the status board — current rather than impressive.
WORK
- Field Service Engineer at Precor. Based in the North West, covering the North and travelling around the UK to look after Precor and Peloton commercial fitness equipment.
- Just past my first year in field service, and still learning something on almost every visit.
ON THE BENCH
- Pure Eden Wellbeing: a second independent wellbeing business, and turning its site from a concept into a proper booking and client platform.
- The Wellness Room by Danielle: a prototype website and booking front end that feels as personal as the real treatment room.
- Netball statistics: working out whether grassroots netball can have useful numbers without turning match day into data entry.
- Making sense of field service stock information, mostly by refusing to do the same tidy-up by hand twice.
- This site, one article, review and project at a time.
LEARNING
- Working towards the Cisco CCNA 200-301 — building, breaking and troubleshooting networks until I know why they work.
PLAYING
- Playing ice hockey for Riverside Raiders as #95, and running the club's media and website.
COACHING
- Team Coach at Grappenhall & Widnes Netball Club, and looking after the club's website.
- Still convinced that the most useful thing a grassroots coach can do is make sure everybody gets the ball.
READING
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
- Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage, the book that gave my curiosity permission.
WATCHING
- Tested @tested
- John Malecki @John_Malecki
- Fix This Build That @Fixthisbuildthat
- American Electrician @americanelectrician
- NetworkChuck @NetworkChuck
- David Bombal @davidbombal
- Why I watch them
CURRENT RABBIT HOLE
- Knipex pliers, and just how much better a properly designed pair can be.
- How many monthly subscriptions a small business actually needs, and how to save them from the generic copy-and-paste templates all over the web.
RECENTLY FINISHED
- A Websites section, so the web work is findable without this turning into an agency site.
- Tracking down my grandpa's published engineering papers, and separating what I can document from what is family story.
- The Wellness Room prototype, which started the whole small-business website thread.
THE WORKSHOP, BY THE NUMBERS
13PROJECTS ON THE BENCH
41ARTICLES WRITTEN
43TOOLS ON THE SHELVES
7MAKERS
23SLIPS IN THE DRAWER
53,000WORDS, ROUGHLY
A now page. Current rather than impressive. If this is badly out of date, that itself is quite a good status update.