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Thank you for visiting my website. I am John Linwood, I live in London, I am married and have a daughter and two sons.
My parents moved from the UK to Africa before I was born and so I spent my childhood in Africa (Zimbabwe) until the age of 20 when I moved to the UK.
In my spare time (!!) I enjoy flying (I have my PPL to fly helicopters), am completely passionate about photography, like gadgets, love cars, I am a member of Mensa, quite handy at carpentry, love reading * and try to stay fit (I use the term "fit" very loosely - which is more that I can say for my clothing!) by working out in the gym and swimming. I dabble in electronics development and microprocessors and love cool technology. In case I don't get enough technology in my professional life my family are always demanding help at home for the 3 wireless networks , 8 PCs, 4 Apple Macs, various xBoxes/PSP's/Playstations/iphones/Wiis/Internet Radios/..., and a partridge in a pear tree!.
In April 2009 I was appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the BBC (http://bbc.co.uk). Previously I was Senior Vice President of International Engineering at Yahoo! (http://yahoo.com) for 5 years, managing 1600 software and service engineering staff in 20 countries across 5 continents. Before that I was with Microsoft for over 10 years (mostly with MSN).
My childhood ambition was to be a veterinary surgeon (blame James Herriot books) however I became passionate about technology and ended up in the software industry. I started out as a software developer mumble years ago (we were called computer programmers in those days, we didn't wear white coats but not far off!) and have been in the IT industry since.
Please feel free to take a look around my site (click on the links in the bar on the left) and let me know what you think.
*To be honest I don't find as much time for reading as I would like so I listen to a lot of books downloaded from Audible.com when I am driving. It makes the London traffic far less taxing.
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