Geekery as a Service

Helping people overwhelmed by data and tasks achieve more income/productivity by turning their processes and ideas into software solutions.

Chief Geek of Software Solutions in WordPress, Laravel and PHP

InnovaTech Media Ltd

The growing success of our operations at BetterWebSpace led us to incorporate the business as a part of InnovaTech Media Ltd in December 2009. 

BetterWebSpace continues to operate high quality hosting services at honest prices.

Having watched our automation work grow over 2009 we now spend much of our time working on PHP API integrations and backend development alongside our traditional hosting work.

Managing Director

BetterWebSpace

Having grown BetterWebSpace from it's early days of being a sole-trader with one or two customers (mostly friends!) where I knew everyone on a first name basis I now run BetterWebSpace as part of InnovaTech Media Ltd.

BetterWebSpace was setup in 2002 when I had already been a customer of a variety of web hosting companies over the years and found them to offer little in the way of support or value for money.

In recent years we have found ourselves spending more time working more closely with our customers to produce highly customised automation solutions in PHP as well as providing them with great support for their websites.

BetterWebSpace specialises in honest hosting at an honest price!

Sales, Support and Development

GRUBBY BUGGY LIMITED

Director

Motorola

Software Engineer in a CMM level 5 / TL900 organisation maintaining a large embedded system (GSM Base Station Network). In particular time spent working on developing and maintaining the Terrestrial Resource Management and backhaul areas for GSM networks.

Software Engineer in the Sys Admin development team development and maintenance of a wide range of scripts for Motorola's OSS products on Sun equipment.

Software Engineer

Are you a business owner tired of software working against you? 

Could having your own software provide you with time/money saving efficiencies or even that mythical unicorn of recurring income? 🦄

Do you feel like you are asking your clients or employees to do the same thing time and time again and the errors creep in, often between the chair and the keyboard? 🤬

Would you like someone to take that painful system make it more efficient and put it on autopilot? Allowing YOU to spend more time with your family and doing the things you love?

Would you like to turn that little idea you have in your field of expertise into a system you could earn a recurring income from?

If so, I can help make that happen!

I have been a geek from an early age, quickly becoming bored of games I began learning BASIC on my ZX Spectrum with my first “Hello World” and the noisy tape deck. It was magic to see something you created appear on the screen - that buzz never left me and the wow moment with a client is still what drives me to this day.

I have a background in Engineering, both at University and then spending 9 years at Motorola, during which time I set up BetterWebSpace allowing me to show that the hosting industry can be honest and fair. BetterWebSpace still serves its clients, but I spend more of my time doing Geekery as a Service - helping people turn their ideas into reality.

A cancer diagnosis in 2005 taught me a lot about life and productivity, why waste your time fighting with data and processes when much of it can be automated? 

Why sit on that idea that could mean you get more time with your family? Life is often too short, I'm fortunate enough to be a long way clear now (and fitter and healthier than I was back then) and I certainly don't want to waste my time - why would you?

More time, more sales, less stress, recurring income, a better balance…. 

Sounds perfect? DM me today!

Keiron Skillett

The Ideas Lab London

I write books and mentor people on creating a business they love from scratch, fixing a business that is no longer working for them, or scaling something in a way that is sustainable and meaningful.

I grew up without any of the natural skills required for entrepreneurship: sales, marketing, focus, persistence, optimism, and yet somehow I've managed to make it work. Now I'm passionate about helping other people like me make a living doing something they really care about.

Many of my clients want a business that is meaningful and allows them creative expression just as much as they want to make money out of it. I get it because I am the same.

Follow me for advice on marketing, social media, writing books, running launches, creating successful offers, and closing sales without manipulation plus some creative inspiration, occasional thoughts on the near future and a sprinkling of amusing memes.

Owner

Deloitte

Head of a Digital Media and Media Asset Management consultancy team at Deloittes.

Joined because I thought it would make my CV look good. Ironically it just made me never want to have a job ever again for the rest of my life (which I have so far succeeded in keeping to).

Tried to sell hugely expensive consulting to broadcasters around what was then a new technology (Media Asset Management). Given the benefits weren't properly proven yet on said new technology no one wanted to pay Deloitte a fortune just to consult on it.

So I quit to consult independently to the BBC and other broadcasters - making me a lot cheaper to hire and getting me paid a lot more. Everybody wins (including Deloitte who were probably pretty sick of me at that point).

Senior Managing Consultant

Citria / Protege 

European technology consultancy supplying systems integration and ebusiness solutions for clients such as ebookers, BBC and Barclaycard. Pioneered solutions for online video including searchable video, Media Asset Management, multi-platform content publishing for broadcasters.

I loved working at a company full of passionate, friendly people at a critical moment in the dot com boom. It felt like the online world was evolving so fast, news stories would change in the course of just a few hours.

At one point I was leading a team of 15 people despite having no discernible management skills. 

I got to play with exciting new technologies and proselytise about the near future where every media company would produce content in multiple formats for multiple platforms. 

Unfortunately the company did not survive the dot com crash and 9/11.

CTO Digital Media Division

Avid Technology

Software developer on special effects products Illusion and Matador for the Parallax division of Avid.

Provided onsite support and development for Disney Feature Animation in Los Angeles during creation of “Dinosaur” movie with Avid’s collaborative production tools.

Parallax was a small company full of lovely people who were annoyingly also geniuses. My software development pinnacle was writing some multi-threaded code to get video into a Silicon Graphics computer off a remote-controlled digital betacam tape. 

But I was wondering at the time what I really wanted to do with my life. I looked around and thought a) I will never be as good a programmer as the others here and b) I don't think I really want to be.

Anyway Avid Technology who owned us went and bought our main competitor and said we either needed to go live in Montreal or take redundancy. Montreal is a cool city (well, bloody freezing actually in the winter) but the option to strike out on my own with a bit of redundancy cash as cushion was too tempting so I went off to freelance for a time.

R&D Engineer

Omnibus Systems

One of the original 3 developers who created the first version of the Omnibus System which went on to control TV stations all over the world.

When I left college I didn't really want a job but it hadn't yet crossed my mind I could work for myself. I saw an advert for this job stuck on the wall at the Uni and it said they were a small company making technology for television and I thought that sounded interesting.

I ended up joining a company founded by a couple of guys who had real creative flair in technology plus a few personality flaws. Back then I was pretty weird anyway so I'm sure I was no picnic to work with but the result was a fairly unhealthy working culture. We managed to produce some ground-breaking stuff despite this.

I look back on writing a bezier-rendering routine in assembler and can't help be impressed at myself.

When the BBC bought our system to control the whole of a TV studio in TV Centre using touch screens (20 years before the iPad was invented) it was quite a moment. Omnibus caught on and the company expanded quickly.

I help people turn their ideas & expertise into #1 businesses, books and brands. I'm author of 3 bestselling books translated into 10 languages.

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