Companies I've done work for -

Apple Computer
Microsoft Corporation
Corbis
MacroMedia
Maris Multimedia
The BBC
Voyager
Electronic Arts (the last time I looked they didn't support Mac browsers, so no link for them)
Creative Wonders (who were assimilated by The Learning Company)
Time Warner Electronic Publishing
The MultiMedia Corporation (1990-1997 RIP)


Things I've worked on-

While at the BBC Interactive Television Unit...
The award-winning Mac version of EcoDisc

While at MultiMedia Corporation....
Macromedia Mediamaker
Last Chance to See (with Douglas Adams)
Hulton Deutsch photolibrary CDs
Erd Sicht (multimedia installation at the Kunst und Austellunghalle in Bonn)
3D Atlas (which sold 2,000,000 copies)
EcoDek(multimedia installation at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto)
ABC Wide World of Animals
Ansel Adams Screensaver
3D Atlas '98 (actually published in 97)

While I was freelance
The Economist Screensaver
A custom screensaver for ANZ Investment Bank

When I moved to Microsoft's Mac Business Unit in California
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Macintosh, versions 4.5 & 5.0
Microsoft Entourage, a component of the Microsoft Office v.X for Mac OS X. It's a full-featured email program with a cool calendar built in.
Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac OS X

What I'm doing now
Working at Google in Mountain View, California

 

How I got into this
I went to art school to train as a photographer. After college I worked for 5 years in London for a bunch of magazines, also doing theatre photography, and taking portraits for actors.

The twist was that while working as a photographer in the 80s I wrote some software for my Mac to help me keep track of contacts and bookings. It started off as a simple little program, but I ended up adding more and more features and eventually found that I was totally hooked on programming and seemed to have a natural talent for it.

Anyway, one day in 1989 I went to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to shoot a cover for Sound On Sound magazine, and I got talking to one of their engineers. As it happened he also wrote Mac software. Afer I showed him some of my work he recommended me for a Mac programming job at the BBC, and I've been writing software full-time ever since.