John has been working in web development since 2000 with technologies such as PHP, JavaScript, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, IIS, ASP and Apache. He is an independent consultant and loves helping start-ups and SMEs with tough technical problems.  He is passionate about open source software and development and is always looking into new technology; most recently NodeJS and MongoDB. John has also published a few simple modules on NPM (base, twister, configr and slicer) all over on his GitHub account. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and was the first Zend Certified Framework Engineer in the UK.

John is also involved with the PHP community and ran the unconference at DPC 2012, PHP NW 2012 and ran the uncon at PHP UK 2013.