Steve Purkiss

Celebrating 30 years since I wrote my first line of code ;) Spent the last 20 of those working in the industry starting at a local IT reseller but quickly moving into programming, initially on IBM AS/400s in RPG. Swiftly moved on to Java J2EE before finally settling on PHP. Have always had a keen interest on the marketing of IT as have had to watch sales people sell stuff they know little about then tell coders they have a couple of weeks to code it in.

Have been lucky enough to work with household names, and am more adept at working on larger scale sites than brochureware. Am an avid networker and am keen to travel as much as I possibly can.

Have 10 years of CMS experience, the last five of those exclusively using Drupal.

1st community-elected Director of the Drupal Association!