Digital Jedi

Too busy doing (including teaching)

I live on the "net", researching information is what I do; day in day out
— and I'm very good at it.

I am often tasked with finding data on, or answers to, obscure questions for use in everything from web copy and marketing to fiction creation.

I have over 30 years in the IT industry; been online since before the "net" was even publicly available and have worked for everyone from foreign governments to the corner shop.

My research has been used by both myself and others for countless tasks from creation of company profiles and competitive analysis through to multi-billion dollar tender documents.

If it's out there and online I can find it — and more importantly, make sense of it for you. Often times it's not the raw data that is wanted but an aggregated intelligent conclusion based on the excavated research data: I can often provide this type of additional service as well.

• 30+ years in IT

• Online since before the "Net" was public

• Have written countless search spiders for various concerns

• Have written many data and text processing tools

• Well above average grasp of English

• In depth knowledge of search engine technologies and how to use them

• Ability to utilize the non-public and unknown search systems (not just the Google type search engines)

• The list goes on...