William Pickup

About

William
Pickup

Making things slowly, thinking things through

These days I am particularly interested in travel1 , reading and making things in the workshop.

A long-running interest of mine has been the pursuit of a simpler life through natural health, growing food, and making rather than buying.

I enjoyed a rewarding career in IT2 before recently retiring.

  1. whenever we can we take our standard poodle “Yuki” with us  ↩︎

  2. Starting out as an electronics technician working on comms gear & mini computers before becoming a developer on mainframes (PL1), working my way through the evolution of computing hardware and then learning C and modern languages as they became popular (VB, C++, Ruby). In the latter part of my journey I specialised in designing software systems and managing Architecture teams  ↩︎

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