Bio
Do you remember that wee game Petz? The PC game where you owned virtual cats and dogs. When I was 10, I found an online forum of like-minded young and creative gamers, where people would post their own custom mods - changing almost everything about the game, from the toys the pets had, to the colour of their fur.
I became obsessed with learning how to do this - and with a hex editor I began modding too, not even knowing that’s what it was called. By 11 I’d made my first website ‘All about my Petz’ - and the rest followed pretty naturally.
I graduated from from Queen’s University Belfast with a First Class Honours in Computer Science MEng in 2015. During the final year of my degree I obtained an NVQ in Business Development and co-founded IVEA labs with three colleagues. I am now co-founder of an independent games development studio called Whitepot Studios, which I set up with my partner Adam in 2016.
I am hugely passionate about using social media to reach out in new and interesting ways, and enjoy delivering talks and presentations about my experiences. I am still a techie at heart - I am experienced in front-end web design and development using Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, as well as C# and Java for larger systems.